2025 Sinquefield Cup: Round 9 & Playoff | #GrandChessTour

August 25, 2025 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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Live from University Tower, the 12th Sinquefield Cup is the fifth of six legs of the Grand Chess Tour. The nine Tour players are joined by one wildcard (pairings below) for a classical round robin. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan & Peter Svidler, and IM Nazi Paikidze for the move-by-move.

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ROUND 9
| 40 Moves in 90 Min. Incr. 30 Sec. / / 30 Min. Incr. 30 Sec.
Levon Aronian (4.5) vs. R Praggnanandhaa (5)
Fabiano Caruana (5) vs. Gukesh Dommaraju (3.5)
Jan-Krzysztof Duda (4) vs. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (4)
Wesley So (4.5) vs. Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2.5)
Alireza Firouzja (3) vs. Sam Sevian (4)

PLAYOFFS IF NECESSARY
2 TIED = Two-Game Match
at 10 Min. Incr. 5 Sec.
OR
3+ TIED = Round Robin
at 5 Min. Incr. 2 Sec.
If either scenario fails to produce a winner, the remaining tied players will have an armageddon knockout (White shall have 5 minutes and Black shall have 4 minutes, with a 2 second increment from move 61.)

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