The Skilling Open is a 16 player online event. First the 16 players will be cut down to 8 qualifiers by a single round robin. Then, the remaining 8 will play a knockout. The time control is 15+5 for all games. No draw offers are allowed before move 40. The top 8 players also qualify for the next Champions Chess Tour event. The games will be played on chess24.com

The knockout will consist of 2 four-game matches. If a match is tied the tiebreaker will be two 5+3 games followed by an Armageddon game if necessary. If the match score finishes 1-1 the same tiebreaker will be used.

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Schedule

all times UTC

Round	Date	Time
Quarterfinals Match 1 / Game 1	Nov 25, 2020	17:00
Quarterfinals Match 1 / Game 2	Nov 25, 2020	17:45
Quarterfinals Match 1 / Game 3	Nov 25, 2020	18:30
Quarterfinals Match 1 / Game 4	Nov 25, 2020	19:15
Quarterfinals Match 2 / Game 1	Nov 26, 2020	17:00
Quarterfinals Match 2 / Game 2	Nov 26, 2020	17:45
Quarterfinals Match 2 / Game 3	Nov 26, 2020	18:30
Quarterfinals Match 2 / Game 4	Nov 26, 2020	19:15
Quarterfinals Tiebreak / Game 1	Nov 26, 2020	20:00
Quarterfinals Tiebreak / Game 2	Nov 26, 2020	20:20
Quarterfinals Tiebreak / Game 3	Nov 26, 2020	20:40
Semifinals Match 1 / Game 1	Nov 27, 2020	17:00
Semifinals Match 1 / Game 2	Nov 27, 2020	17:45
Semifinals Match 1 / Game 3	Nov 27, 2020	18:30
Semifinals Match 1 / Game 4	Nov 27, 2020	19:15
Semifinals Match 2 / Game 1	Nov 28, 2020	17:00
Semifinals Match 2 / Game 2	Nov 28, 2020	17:45
Semifinals Match 2 / Game 3	Nov 28, 2020	18:30
Semifinals Match 2 / Game 4	Nov 28, 2020	19:15
Semifinals Tiebreak / Game 1	Nov 28, 2020	20:00
Semifinals Tiebreak / Game 2	Nov 28, 2020	20:20
Semifinals Tiebreak / Game 3	Nov 28, 2020	20:40
Finals Match 1 / Game 1	Nov 29, 2020	17:00
Finals Match 1 / Game 2	Nov 29, 2020	17:45
Finals Match 1 / Game 3	Nov 29, 2020	18:30
Finals Match 1 / Game 4	Nov 29, 2020	19:15
Finals Match 2 / Game 1	Nov 30, 2020	17:00
Finals Match 2 / Game 2	Nov 30, 2020	17:45
Finals Match 2 / Game 3	Nov 30, 2020	18:30
Finals Match 2 / Game 4	Nov 30, 2020	19:15
Finals Tiebreak / Game 1	Nov 30, 2020	20:00
Finals Tiebreak / Game 2	Nov 30, 2020	20:20
Finals Tiebreak / Game 3	Nov 30, 2020	20:40

Players

Name	Rating
Carlsen, Magnus	2881
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	2860
Ding, Liren	2836
Nakamura, Hikaru	2829
Nepomniachtchi, Ian	2778
Aronian, Levon	2778
Duda, Jan-Krzysztof	2774
Radjabov, Teimour	2758
Le, Quang Liem	2744
Svidler, Peter	2742
So, Wesley	2741
Giri, Anish	2731
Karjakin, Sergey	2709
Firouzja, Alireza	2703
Anton Guijarro, David	2667
Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi	2636

2020 Skilling Open Quarterfinals - Day 1