The Julius Baer Generation Cup is the 5th event on the 2023 Champions Chess Tour.
Format
The Julius Baer Generation Cup features three Divisions of 8, 16 and 32 players. Each division is a double-elimination knockout where if one player loses one match he drops down to a Losers bracket and can still win the tournament. In the Grand Final if the player from the Winners bracket loses, there’s a rematch.
The total prize fund is $235,000, with a top prize of $30,000 (150 Tour points) in Division I, $10,000 in Division II (50 points) and $5,000 (20 points) in Division III. The top 3 in Division I and the winner of Division II qualify straight to Division I of the next event on the Tour.
The time control for normal games is 15 minutes per player for all moves, with a 3-second increment each move. In Division I and II the Winners bracket matches are played over four games, while in the Losers bracket there are two games. In Division III all matches are over two games except the 4-game Grand Final. A tie in a match is decided by an Armageddon game with no increment, where the players bid for time they are willing to play with. The lowest bidder gets that time and can pick colour, while the opponent gets 15 minutes. Black only needs a draw to win the match.
Players
Division I
- Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 2835
- Fabiano Caruana 🇺🇸 2782
- Alireza Firouzja 🇫🇷 2777
- Wesley So 🇺🇸 2769
- Nodirbek Abdusattorov 🇺🇿 2725
- M. Amin Tabatabaei 🇮🇷 2696
- Pavel Eljanov 🇺🇦 2695
- Denis Lazavik 🏳️ 2560
Division II
- Ian Nepomniatchtchi 🏳️ 2779
- Levon Aronian 🇺🇸 2742
- Vladislav Artemiev 🏳️ 2698
- Alexey Sarana 🇷🇸 2685
- Nihal Sarin 🇮🇳 2684
- Bassem Amin 🇪🇬 2684
- Andrey Esipenko 🏳️ 2683
- Vladimir Fedoseev 🇸🇮 2676
- Laurent Fressinet 🇫🇷 2652
- Rauf Mamedov 🇦🇿 2633
- Nodirbek Yakubboev 🇺🇿 2630
- Eduardo Iturrizaga 🇪🇸 2617
- Maksim Chigaev 🇪🇸 2616
- Aleksey Dreev 🏳️ 2698
- Aydin Suleymanli 🇦🇿 2586
- Evgeny Alekseev 🇮🇱 2573
Division III
- Anish Giri 🇳🇱 2769
- Vladimir Kramnik 🏳️ 2753
- Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 🇦🇿 2747
- Dmitry Andreikin 🏳️ 2729
- Parham Maghsoodloo 🇮🇷 2702
- Samuel Sevian 🇺🇸 2698
- Igor Kovalenko 🇺🇦 2674
- Matthias Bluebaum 🇩🇪 2670
- Etienne Bacrot 🇫🇷 2662
- Jaime Santos Latasa 🇪🇸 2656
- Alan Pichot 🇪🇸 2642
- Gata Kamsky 🇺🇸 2641
- Shant Sargsyan 🇦🇲 2639
- Benjamin Gledura 🇭🇺 2637
- Georg Meier 🇺🇾 2629
- Yuriy Kuzubov 🇺🇦 2627
- Benjamin Bok 🇳🇱 2617
- Aram Hakobyan 🇦🇲 2612
- Samvel Ter-Sahakyan 🇦🇲 2609
- Olexandr Bortnyk 🇺🇦 2608
- Shamsiddin Vokhidov 🇺🇿 2597
- Nikolas Theodoru 🇬🇷 2586
- Constantin Lupulescu 🇷🇴 2584
- Bardiya Daneshvar 🇮🇷 2570
- Velimir Ivic 🇷🇸 2570
- Tuan Minh Le 🇻🇳 2559
- Vugar Rasulov 🇦🇿 2549
- Rudik Makarian 🏳️ 2546
- Nikita Meshkovs 🇱🇻 2544
- Diego Flores 🇦🇷 2534
- Pablo Salinas Herrera 🇨🇱 2464
- Garg Aradhya 🇮🇳 2395
Schedule
Division I
- Quarterfinals: 30th August
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:20 UTC
- Game 4: 16:55 UTC
- Game 5: 17:40 UTC
- Losers Round 1: 31st August
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:20 UTC
- Semifinals: 31st August
- Game 1: 16:50 UTC
- Game 2: 17:25 UTC
- Game 3: 18:10 UTC
- Game 4: 18:45 UTC
- Game 5: 19:30 UTC
- Losers Quarterfinals: 1st September
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:10 UTC
- Final: 1st September
- Game 1: 16:50 UTC
- Game 2: 17:25 UTC
- Game 3: 18:10 UTC
- Game 4: 18:45 UTC
- Game 5: 19:30 UTC
- Losers Final: 2nd September
- Game 1: 16:50 UTC
- Game 2: 17:25 UTC
- Game 3: 18:05 UTC
- Grand Final: 3rd September
- Game 1: 15:00 UTC
- Game 2: 15:35 UTC
- Game 3: 16:20 UTC
- Game 4: 16:55 UTC
- Game 5: 17:40 UTC
- Grand Final Reset: 3rd September
- Game 1: 18:15 UTC
- Game 2: 18:50 UTC
- Game 3: 19:25 UTC
Day 4 - Division III
Classified for Grand Final