Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour 2020
The 2020 Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour was a series of online chess tournaments featuring most of the world’s best players, playing for a prize money pool of US $1 million. The tour consisted of four super-tournaments (elite competitions), with the winners then playing in a Grand Final in August 2020.
Format
There were 5 total tournaments in the tour:
- Magnus Carlsen Invitational, 18 April – 3 May 2020.
- Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge (2020), 19 May – 3 June 2020.
- Chessable Masters (2020), 20 June – 5 July 2020.
- Legends of Chess (2020) 21 July – 5 August 2020.
- Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals benefiting Kiva (2020), 9 August – 20 August 2020.
Schedule
Results
Tournaments
Magnus Carlsen Invitational
The results of the preliminary round were as follows.
| Semifinal (1–2 May) | Final (3 May) | ||||||||||||
 Magnus Carlsen | 2½ | – | – | ||||||||||
 Ding Liren | 1½ | – | – | ||||||||||
| Magnus Carlsen | 2½ | – | – | ||||||||||
 Hikaru Nakamura | 1½ | – | – | ||||||||||
| Fabiano Caruana | 2 | 0 | – | ||||||||||
| Hikaru Nakamura | 2 | 2 | – | ||||||||||
Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge
The results of the preliminary round were as follows.
| Quarterfinal (May 23–27) | Semifinal (May 28–30) | Final (June 2–3) | ||||||||||||||
| Hikaru Nakamura | 3 | 3 | - | |||||||||||||
 Levon Aronian | 2 | 1 | - | |||||||||||||
| Hikaru Nakamura | 0 | 2½ | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Magnus Carlsen | 3 | 1½ | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Wesley So | 1½ | 1½ | - | |||||||||||||
| Magnus Carlsen | 2½ | 2½ | - | |||||||||||||
| Hikaru Nakamura | 2½ | 1½ | 2 | |||||||||||||
 Daniil Dubov | 1½ | 2½ | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Sergey Karjakin | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Daniil Dubov | 3 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Daniil Dubov | 2½ | 2½ | - | |||||||||||||
| Ding Liren | 1½ | 1½ | - | |||||||||||||
| Yu Yangyi | 3 | 1½ | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Ding Liren | 2 | 2½ | 3 | |||||||||||||
Chessable Masters
The results of the preliminary round were as follows.
Group A
Group B
| Quarterfinal (June 25–29) | Semifinal (June 30 – July 2) | Final (July 3–4) | ||||||||||||||
| Magnus Carlsen | 2½ | 2½ | - | |||||||||||||
| Fabiano Caruana | 1½ | 1½ | - | |||||||||||||
| Magnus Carlsen | 3½ | 2½ | - | |||||||||||||
| Ding Liren | 2½ | 1½ | - | |||||||||||||
| Ding Liren | 2½ | 3 | 2½ | |||||||||||||
| Hikaru Nakamura | 1½ | 4 | 1½ | |||||||||||||
| Magnus Carlsen | 3½ | 2½ | - | |||||||||||||
 Anish Giri | 2½ | 1½ | - | |||||||||||||
| Alexander Grischuk | 3½ | 1 | - | |||||||||||||
| Anish Giri | 3½ | 3 | - | |||||||||||||
| Anish Giri | 3 | 1½ | 3½ | |||||||||||||
| Ian Nepomniachtchi | 1 | 2½ | 2½ | |||||||||||||
| Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2½ | 2½ | - | |||||||||||||
| Vladislav Artemiev | 1½ | 1½ | - | |||||||||||||
Legends of Chess
The results of the preliminary round were as follows.
| Semifinal (1–2 May) | Final (3 May) | ||||||||||||
| Magnus Carlsen | 2½ | 2½ | – | ||||||||||
| Peter Svidler | 1½ | 1½ | – | ||||||||||
| Magnus Carlsen | 4 | 2½ | – | ||||||||||
| Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2 | ½ | – | ||||||||||
| Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2½ | 3 | 3½ | ||||||||||
| Anish Giri | 1½ | 4 | 2½ | ||||||||||
Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals benefiting Kiva
The results of the preliminary round were as follows.
| Semifinals (9–12 August) | Final | ||||||||||||||||||
| Magnus Carlsen | 3½ | 2½ | 2½ | 3½ | – | ||||||||||||||
| Ding Liren | 3½ | ½ | ½ | 2½ | – | ||||||||||||||
| Magnus Carlsen | 1½ | 3½ | 2½ | 2½ | 3 | 3 | 3½ | ||||||||||||
| Hikaru Nakamura | 2½ | 2½ | 3½ | 1½ | 4 | 1 | 3½ | ||||||||||||
| Daniil Dubov | 2½ | 1 | 1½ | – | – | ||||||||||||||
| Hikaru Nakamura | 3½ | 3 | 2½ | – | – | ||||||||||||||