25 July 2017
FIDE Publishes Final List of Participants of the World Cup 2017
The tournament will be held in Tbilisi.
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The tournament is a knock-out event. There shall be 6 rounds of matches comprising 2 games per round, with the winners progressing to the next round, plus the final 7th round comprising of 4 games.
If the scores are level after the regular games, after a new drawing of colors, two tie-break games with 25 minutes for each player with an addition of 10 seconds shall be played. If the scores are still level after the games, then, after a new drawing of colors, a match of 2 games shall be played to determine the winner with a time control of 10 minutes plus 10 seconds increment after each move. In case of a level score, another match of 2 games shall be played with a time control of 5 minutes plus 3 seconds increment after each move. If still there is no winner, one sudden-death game will be played.
For the first time in history, the reigning World Champion is going to play in the World Cup, which came as a surprise to the organizers. The nominees of FIDE were announced as well.
Russia is represented by Sergey Karjakin, Peter Svidler (both - World Cup 2015), Mikhail Antipov (Junior World Champion2015), Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Grischuk, Dmitry Andreikin, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Evgeny Tomashevsky (all - rating), Ernesto Inarkiev, Aleksey Goganov, Daniil Dubov, Aleksey Dreev, Anton Demchenko, Maxim Matlakov, Vladimir Fedoseev, Alexander Motylev, Boris Grachev, and Vladislav Artemiev (all - European Championships 2016 & 2017).
The pairings according to the current ratings will be published later.
List of participants