Chess World Cup Final: Tie-break rules and when and…

Chess World Cup Final: Tie-break rules and when and where to watch

NEW DELHI: After drawing the first two games, India's Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa and Norway's Magnus Carlsen are set to clash in the tie-breaks of the Chess World Cup at Baku in Azerbaijan on Thursday.

A quiet draw in 30 moves from the white side of Four Knights Spanish game by Carlsen on the second day took the title clash to tie-breaks.

Carlsen gave one moment of subtle joy in the second classical game where he played a rook move (Rhd1), thereby denying Prag a long castle and with that stopped a tiny window to create pressure.

When the draw was agreed, they had six pawns and dark-coloured bishop each.

Here are the tie-breaks rules for the Chess World Cup final:

- If the score is level after the two regular games, after a new drawing of colours done immediately after Game 2, two tie-break games shall be played with time control of 25 minutes for each player + 10 seconds increment per move, starting from move 1.

- If the score is level after the games, then after a new drawing of colours, 2 games shall be played with time control of 10 minutes for each player + 10 seconds increment per move, starting from move 1.

- If the scores are level after the games, then after a new drawing of colours, 2 games shall be played with time control of 5 minutes for each player + 3 seconds increment per move, starting from move 1.

- If the score is still level after the games, then after a new drawing of colours, one game with a time control of 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment per move, starting from move 1 shall be played to determine the winner.

- If the game is drawn, another game shall be played with a time control of 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment per move, starting from move 1 with the colours reversed from the previous game.

- If the game is drawn, the procedure shall be repeated until the first game won by one of the players.