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= Lindores Abbey Chess Tournaments = Lindores Abbey has long-standing ties with the game of chess. Learned monks of the abbey played chess there more than 800 years ago. In tribute to the ancient traditions of chess at the Abbey, Lindores Abbey Distillery began holding chess tournaments and some of the greatest chess players in the world have competed there.

2019 Lindores Abbey Chess Stars
An international chess tournament was organized by Lindores Abbey Distillery from May 25 to 26, 2019 at Lindores Abbey in Scotland.

Tournament regulations:

Two circles.

Timing: 25 minutes with the addition of 10 seconds for each turn, starting from the first turn.

Participants of the tournament: World Champion Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Sergey Karjakin, Ding Liren.

The chief judge was international arbitrator Andrzej Filipowicz.

The winner of the tournament was world champion Magnus Carlsen, who scored 3.5 points out of 6.

Interesting facts:
The participants of the tournament played at the distillery.

At the tournament, world champion Magnus Carlsen was awarded an amber chess piece by the son of the 8th World chess champion Mikhail Tal, who received it in 1960 from the Government of the Republic of Latvia after winning a world championship against Mikhail Botvinnik.

The tournament participants were presented with exclusive whisky casks which are currently maturing at Lindores Abbey Distillery.

Links:
Official website of the tournament

Video broadcast of the tournament 1 day

Video broadcast of the tournament 2 day

2020 Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge
An international chess tournament held online on a chess platform chess24.com from May 19 to June 3, 2020. The tournament was held in two stages. Firstly, 12 participants played in a round-robin system with a time limit of 15 minutes with the addition of 10 seconds per turn, starting from the first, after which the 8 best performers took place in knockout rounds to determine the winner. The prize fund for the tournament was $ 150,000, of which 45,000 was presented to the winner.

The winner of the tournament was international grandmaster Daniil Dubov, who defeated American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura in the final.

Interesting facts:
The Lindores Abbey Road Challenge was the second stage of the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour series, organized by world champion Magnus Carlsen, with a total prize fund of $ 1 million. Knockout regulations:

Each knockout round consists of three mini-matches consisting of four games with a time limit of 15 minutes, with an addition of 10 seconds for each move, starting from the first move. If the match ends in a draw, then one game is played ("Armageddon"), with a time limit of 5 minutes white and 4 minutes black, if the game ends in a draw, then black is considered the winner.

Links:
Broadcast of round-robin tournament games on the website chess24.com

Broadcast of knockout games on the website chess24.com

= 2021 Lindores Abbey Blitz =

The International Chess Blitz tournament dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the birth of the eighth world chess champion Mikhail Tal, held in Riga on November 8, 2021. The tournament was held according to the Swiss system in 9 double rounds, with a time control of 3 minutes, with the addition of 2 seconds for each move, starting from the first. The total prize fund of the tournament was $ 60,000. 120 chess players took part in the tournament, including such strong chess players as Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Levon Aronian, Daniil Dubov, Peter Svidler, Boris Gelfand, Alexandra Kostenyuk, Valentina Gunina.

The results of the tournament were quite unexpected - the winner of the tournament was a young Ukrainian grandmaster Kirill Shevchenko, who scored 14 points out of 18 and took 58th place in the starting list. The second place went to the American grandmaster Fabiano Caruana, the third place went to the Indian 18-year-old grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi. Mongolian grandmaster Batkhuyagiin Mongontuul showed the best result among women.

Interesting facts:
The tournament was held in the building of the Hanzas Perons Cultural and Entertainment Center.

Links:
Official website of the tournament

Full table with results

Video broadcast of the tournament games