Overview
About the event
WR Chess brings Team USA and Team Uzbekistan to Miami for a two-day rapid and blitz team match. Four players a side meet in a Scheveningen pairing on four boards: every player faces each opponent once in rapid and twice in blitz across twelve rounds.
Day one is rapid — four rounds at 15 minutes plus a 10-second increment. Day two is blitz — eight rounds at 3 minutes plus a 2-second increment. Each round of four games counts as one match: a won match scores two points, a drawn match one.
If the teams are level on match points after all twelve rounds, total board points decide. If still tied, a single Armageddon game settles it — White has 4 minutes, the Black player is decided by a time bid, and a draw counts as a win for Black. The event is FIDE rapid and blitz rated; the team and board-order draw takes place at the players' dinner on July 26.
For viewers
How to follow
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Broadcast schedule (Miami time)
- 27 Jul 13:00 Day 1 — Rapid Rounds 1–4
- 28 Jul 13:00 Day 2 — Blitz Rounds 1–8
Venue & travel
The field
Players
USA
GM Hikaru Nakamura
Rating TBA
GM Fabiano Caruana
Rating TBA
GM Wesley So
Rating TBA
GM Levon Aronian
Rating TBA
USA (reserve)
GM Leinier Dominguez
Rating TBA
Uzbekistan
GM Javokhir Sindarov
Rating TBA
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov
Rating TBA
GM Nodirbek Yakubboev
Rating TBA
GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov
Rating TBA
Uzbekistan (reserve)
GM Mukhiddin Madaminov
Rating TBA
For players & arbiters
Format & regulations
- System
- Scheveningen team match — Team USA vs Team Uzbekistan, four players a side on four boards
- Rounds
- Stage 1: rapid, 4 rounds · Stage 2: blitz, 8 rounds — each round of four games counts as one match
- Time controls
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- Rapid: 15 minutes + 10-second increment from move one (G/15+10)
- Blitz: 3 minutes + 2-second increment from move one (G/3+2)
- Tiebreak
- Board points; if still tied, a single Armageddon game (White 4′+2″, Black set by time bid — a draw counts as a win for Black)
- Overall standings
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- Team standings by match points — win 2, draw 1, loss 0. Leinier Dominguez (USA) and Mukhammadali Madaminov (Uzbekistan) are reserves.
- Team USA
- Team Uzbekistan
- No electronic devices on a player's person during play — a device found during a game forfeits that game
- FIDE Laws of Chess apply, including all anti-cheating regulations
- Default time is 0 minutes — players must be at their boards at the start of each round. First illegal move: one extra minute to the opponent; a second by the same player loses the game. The Chief Arbiter's decisions are final.
Programme
Schedule
All times local to Miami, Florida, USA.
- Players' dinner — drawing of lots (Team A/B and board order)
- 11:00 Players meeting
- 13:00 Rapid Round 1
- 14:00 Rapid Round 2
- 15:00 Rapid Round 3
- 16:00 Rapid Round 4
- 13:00 Blitz Round 1
- 13:30 Blitz Round 2
- 14:00 Blitz Round 3
- 14:30 Blitz Round 4
- 15:00 Blitz Round 5
- 15:30 Blitz Round 6
- 16:00 Blitz Round 7
- 16:30 Blitz Round 8
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