2019 FWFRCC Final Live

In the previous post, So Beats Carlsen in FWFRCC Final, I promised,

I couldn't find a summary of the final scores in the two semifinal matches, but there are plenty of reports from other sites to sift through. I'll cover those in a follow-up post.

We're lucky to have a visual record of the matches. From Youtube's Chess.com channel:-

Wesley So vs. Magnus Carlsen: Fischer Random Chess Championship 2019: Game 2 (1:52:49) • '[Published on] Nov 1, 2019'

The description said,

Wesley So faces off against the 2018 Fischer Random Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen. At this point in the match the score was 1.5-1.5 after a draw in the first game.

Five of of the six broadcasts of the games between So and Carlsen were published on the Chess.com channel. Here are links to the videos including the game above:-

• Game 2
• Game 3
• Game 4
• Game 5
• Game 6

As for other chess news sites, here are a couple of references that lead to daily reports on the games:-

• Tag: Fischer Random World Chess Championship 2019 (chessbase.com; Carlos Alberto Colodro)
• Wesley So crushes Carlsen to win Chess960 title (chess24.com; Colin McGourty; with links to reports on previous rounds)

That's already a wealth of material on the 2019 FWFRCC ('FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship', in case you've just joined), but there's much more. First question: where are the game scores?

So Beats Carlsen in FWFRCC Final

In last month's report on the 'FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship' (FWFRCC), Quarterfinals of FWFRCC Completed (October 2019), I ended with a Chess.com headline:-

2019-10-06: Caruana, So, Nepomniachtchi Headed To World Fischer Random Semifinals (chess.com; GM Jonathan Tisdall)

Those three players were joined by Magnus Carlsen. I pieced together the following infographic from subsequent Chess.com reports, which are listed below the chart.

The results in the bottom half of the chart are from the two final matches. In the following reports I couldn't find a summary of the final scores in the two semifinal matches, but there are plenty of reports from other sites to sift through. I'll cover those in a follow-up post. Following are GM Jonathan Tisdall's reports on the semifinals:-

• 2019-10-26: [FWFRCC] Finals Begin Sunday (chess.com, as are the following links)
• 2019-10-27: The Final Test Begins in the [FWFRCC]
• 2019-10-28: Carlsen, So Lead [FWFRCC]
• 2019-10-29: Carlsen to Play So for [FWFRCC]

And here are GM Tisdall's reports on the final matches:-

• 2019-11-01: So Takes Lead vs. Carlsen in Thrilling [FWFRCC] Final
• 2019-11-02: Wesley So Closes in on [FWFRCC] over Carlsen
• 2019-11-03: Wesley So Wins [FWFRCC]

Congratulations to GM Wesley So on gaining first place in this long, difficult event.

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Later: Re 'I couldn't find a summary of the final scores in the two semifinal matches', the official site has a summary: frchess.com/results. After the scores of the semifinal matches, I added an overview of the time controls to create a second infographic.

The seven images in the two infographics could be rearranged to present a more coherent picture, but I'll leave it like that for now.