With the open and invitational enviornment stage over, we now transfer to the primary Swiss phases marking the midpoint of the qualifiers on Lichess.
On the Swiss phases, eligible gamers can solely participate within the teams they’ve been sorted into. Eligible gamers and the teams they’ve been sorted into could be discovered right here.
All of the Swiss teams of the FIDE Offerspill World Fischer Random Championship Qualifiers start at 1400 UTC on tenth September. All of the Swiss teams of the FIDE CCC and NACCL World Fischer Random Championship Qualifiers start at 1700 UTC on tenth September.
The highest 18 gamers of every group undergo, the place they are going to meet on eleventh September (with the identical begin occasions), and be met by 10 wildcards. In whole, as much as 100 gamers will compete within the second Swiss stage to find out the ultimate 16 who undergo to the KO phases.
Ranging from the second Swiss stage, gamers who’re requested might be required to affix a web based name half-hour earlier than the spherical begins, with arbiters current to conduct related checks. Failure to affix the decision or adjust to arbiters directions might end in a participant’s withdrawal from the match. Extra data might be despatched on to gamers; due to this fact gamers ought to rigorously test their Lichess inboxes and notifications.
Wildcards of the second Swiss stage are as follows, so far:
Offerspill Qualifiers | CCC & NACCL Qualifiers |
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Le Quang Liem (2728) | Hikaru Nakamura (2768) |
Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2713) | Alexander Grischuk (2745) |
Jules Moussard (2686) | Ray Robson (2690) |
David Howell (2667) | Jeffery Xiong (2690) |
Aryan Tari (2656) | Andrey Esipenko (2678) |
Nijat Abasov (2646) | Gata Kamsky (2666) |
Vasif Durarbayli (2628) | Christopher Yoo (2563) |
Eric Hansen (2613) | Brandon Jacobson (2551) |
Johan-Sebastian Christiansen (2583) | Andrew Tang (2539) |
TBC | Andy Woodward (2465) |