Four-Player Chess/World Championships/2024 Teams World Four Player Chess Championship

This was the 2024 Teams World Four Player Chess Teams Championship. Sport: Four Player Chess Teams (2v2) Dates: Oct. 5 through Nov. 17 2024 Champions: Runners-Up: Location: Online; Chess.com No. of Teams: 16 Setup: Modern/New Standard (queens to the left of the kings) Spec.: 2 | 10 Increment; Promotion All 11th Rank; En Passant Prize: 1000 ($600 winners; $300 Runners-Up) TD: Luke Romanko; Asst. TD SM Sarvesh Streaming: Background This was only the second 4pc teams championship after the merge and setup change, and the first that was 2v2. Teams' popularity had declined since then, with only around 1300 players in October 2024, and it was hoped that this championship would generate interest in the variant. The elite had solidified; most challengers participated in previous championships. The defending team of Luis Ignacio (eyeofthetiger1204) and Carlos Tadeo (carlosgabriel1234) was the favorite; Luis won the most recent self-partner championship and was looking for his record third team title. Arguably his biggest challenger was the team of 2023 runner-up and 2x champion Lars Johan Brodtkorb (icystun) and Andrew (smokingcaruana); after coming in second twice, Lars was looking to take back the title and take back the crown of best 4pc player alive. Other potential challengers included Jeremy Cawthon (2023 & 2021 3rd) and Jai Sandhu (Radon), Tyler Anderson (2023 & 2021 4th) and Mateusz Orzel (mati4333), Vahan Nalbandyan (Cha_charealsmooth) and Gonzalo Rojo (rojitto), Prathamesh Ramane (Prathu_19) and Kanishk Pramchander (JKCheesechess), the team of William Shi (Misterwish) and Diego Correa (Dreamconquerer), and Expanderw12 and KUGLERUNDI, a player who tied for fifth in 2023 and who would win a different Teams tournament Eye and Icy in early December. While this tournament contained the majority of elite players at the time, there were some notable suggestions. The biggest exception was the account Mystery (player "Vibgyor"), who had been banned from the site. They were the only active player above 3000 and had been much more active recently than most competitive players. Other notable omissions included Jcrossover_14, malburysoappinksoap, and sean3139. Nevertheless, this tournament overall was considered competitive and representative of the elite community at the time Qualification Players in bold accepted and participated. The player in italics played part of a match but had to be replaced. Players not bolded or italicized either did not accept their invitation or did accept their invitation but did not play. Leaderboard & Invitation Players on both the teams (2v2) and self-partner teams leaderboard were selected and ranked by a weighted average of their ratings. Out of the players on both top 20 (top 21 for Self-Partner due to a closed account) leaderboards, they took "2/3 [of a player's] Standard Rapid Teams rating + 1/3 [of a player's] Standard Blitz Self-Partnering rating...with a correction factor of (Rating-1500) * (70-Rating Deviation)/RD" In addition, a few players were invited subjectively. As it is 2v2, these players were allowed to invite partners of their choosing, and so a couple of players participated that way. Eight teams were qualified this way. This qualification took place on October 5th, and to make eight teams one team was invited later. Leaderboard: DateMethodRatingFlagUsernameNameSP RatingAveraged RatingNotes5thLB3012IndiaMystery"Vibgyor"22992774Banned5thLB2778NorwayicystunLars Johan Brodtkorb228625465thLB2643Indiaprathu_19Prathamesh Ramane204924962nd round No-show5thLB2672U.S.AmisterwishWilliam Shi202724445thLB2673N/AmalburysoappinksoapN/A20432428Declined/Ineligable5thLB2530ArgentinarojittoGonzalo Rojo210424245thLB2551U.S.APuzzlesJohn Lucian Goins206324195thLB2460NepalP_t_magPrabin Mager20572392Declined/Ineligable5thLB2471CanadaDreamConquerorDiego Correa208323905thLB2505PalestineThe-Outcast1Ahmed Morsi206023875thLB2439N/ANoMoreFunsN/A20952371Declined/Ineligable5thLB2484U.S.AWasherAndDryerBrennan Lee206123245thPartner2556U.S.AJKCheeseChessKanishk Premchandar1940N/Avia Prathu5thPartner2322Polandzooooz123Adam Wygramtopodam2049N/Avia Puzzles5thPartner2127U.S.AsmokincaruanaAndrew1749N/Avia icystun Invitation: DateMethodRatingFlagUsernameNameSP RatingNotes5-Oct-24Invite2616ArmeniaCha_charealsmoothVahan NalbandyanN/A5-Oct-24Invite2597HungaryIM DragonB70Nhat Mihn To1830Declined/Ineligable5-Oct-24Invite2563PolandFM RezaczWojciech RezaN/APost-QualifiersInvite1863ArmeniaGangster_HHamlet AntonyanN/A5-Oct-24Partner1660PolandGM Maciek_92Maciej KlekowskiN/APost-QualifiersPartner1849England24BulletAlfredo BaggianoN/A Arena Qualification Eight teams qualified through arenas. The first arena was broken and so the most persistently joining team qualified. DateMethod RatingFlagUsernameNameSP RatingNotes#T#Qualification Game12thArena (1) 2405U.S.Aroadrunner18Tyler Anderson2032Broken TournamentN/AN/A12thArena (1)2387IndiaSarvesh_2111SM Sarvesh1823Broken Tournament/ No-showN/AN/A12thArena (2) 12 UTC2936ArgentinaEyeofthetiger1204Luis Ignacio2141T#34783#7138298612thArena (2) 12 UTC2406Perucarlosgabriel1234Carlos Tadeo1778T#34783#7138298612thArena (3) 16 UTC2555Indiasakthi09Aswin Devendran1924T#34787#7139043512thArena (3) 16 UTC2276IndiaN-a-v-aNavaneeth K RN/AT#34787#7139043512thArena (4) 20 UTC2407ArgentinaFiat147Emanuel Martin19152 games/DNPT#34791#7139699112thArena (4) 20 UTC2323Uruguaysantox994Santiago Gonzalez1975T#34791#7139699113thArena (5) 0 UTC2395PakistanLegend-007Taha Tahseen1892T#34794#7140165313thArena (5) 0 UTC2360IndiaKhazekamelKamalanathan Ravichandran2019T#34794#7140165313thArena (6) 12 UTC2203IndiaProfblundermasterSheldon Sequeira2007DNP/No-showT#34800#7141928313thArena (6) 12 UTC2004EgyptExpanderw12abdulrahman faiz1745T#34800#7141928313thArena (7) 16 UTC2375AlgeriaShintoTsukoyamiDr. Aymen Guellil1931T#34805#7142694913thArena (7) 16 UTC2121GermanyRealMoxileMartin Velitchkov1821T#34805#7142694913thArena (8) 20 UTC2401U.S.APioleenJeremy Cawthon2063T#34808#7143279413thArena (8) 20 UTC2346U.K.RadonJai Sandhu1823T#34808#71432795 Substitutions Four players were substitutes. If players did not show, they forfeited their right to play and were replaced by the strongest available players. These replacements are then considered an official member of the team, not the original player. Sarvesh_2111 and Profblundermaster were slated to play but did not, so they are not counted as participants. If a player was able to play part of a match but not all of it, they are considered a participant in the tournament but are not considered a full member of a team. Fiat147 played but was unable to continue, so they are counted as a participant, but not a full member of the team. DateMethodRatingFlagUsernameNameSP RatingAveraged RatingNotesFirst Round (Rating Post-Qualifiers)Sub:2641GermanyKUGLERUNDILeon Wu2172via: profblundermasterFirst Round (Rating Post-Qualifiers)Sub:2454Polandmati4333Mateusz Orzel1827via: Sarvesh_2111First Round (Rating Post-Qualifiers)Sub:2371U.S.AflappydayoMark Costner1954via: fiat147First Round (Rating Post-Qualifiers)Sub:2169CanadaDroptheseventhAndrew HarrisN/Avia: Prathu_19 Teams Table contains team's average combined rating taken on the 5th or after their arena. RatingTeam2671Eyeofthetiger1204 + carlosgabriel12342600JKCheesechess + DroptheSeventh (prathu19)2573Rojitto + Cha_charealsmooth2572MisterWish + Dreamconquerer2495The-Outcast1 + Washeranddryer2453icystun + smokincaruana2437Puzzles + zooooz1232430roadrunner18 + mati43332416sakthi_09 + N_A_V_A2378Khazekamel + Legend_0072374Pioleen + Radon2347santox994 + flappydayo (fiat147)2323KUGELRUNDI + Expanderw122248ShintoTsukoyami + realmoxile2112FM rezacz + GM maciek_921856Gangster_H + 24Bullet Tournament Round One & Two: Single Elimination Group Stage | Oct. 19-27 For round one, players who qualified for a certain time (ex: Sat. 12 UTC) played on that certain time. For round two the remaining two players who qualified for that time played each other. The remaining players were matched up based on who could play at that time and general rating. Bold means team was red/yellow while non-bolded denotes green and blue Group One: 12 UTC Rating Name2936 + 2406Eyeofthetiger1204 + Carlosgabriel12342504 + 2315The-Outcast1 + Washeranddryer2645 + 2304Puzzles + Zoooozs1232650 + 2006KUGELRUNDI + Expanderw12 Round One: Oct. 19 12 UTCRatingNameG1G2G3T#716689852936 + 2406Eyeofthetiger1204 + Carlosgabriel12341113#71669335; #716704272645 + 2304Puzzles + Zoooozs1230000 Description: Oct. 20 12 UTCRatingNameG1G2G3G4T#71707225; #717078972505 + 2315The-Outcast1 + Washeranddryer10001#71708537; #717092102650 + 2006KUGELRUNDI + Expanderw1201113 Description: Round Two: Oct. 26 12 UtcRatingNameG1G2G3T#719709292951 + 2421Eyeofthetiger1204 + Carlosgabriel12341113#79171413; #719720952709 + 2141KUGELRUNDI + Expanderw120000 Description: Group Two: 20 UTC Rating Name2515 + 2661/2169JKcheesechess + Prathu_19/Droptheseventh2420 + 2278Pioleen + Radon2319 + 2407/2366santox994 + fiat147/flappydao2252 + 2038Gangster_H + 24Bullet Round One: Oct. 19: 20 UTCRatingNameG1G2G3G4Tfiat left after two games; #716846832661 + 2515Prathu_19 + JKcheesechess 10113#71685403; #71686418 #716866882319 + 2407/2366santox994 + fiat147/flappydao01001 Description: Oct. 20: 20 UTCRatingNameG1G2G3T#71721667; #717219612420 + 2278Pioleen + Radon1113#717222922252 + 2038Gangster_H + 24Bullet0000 Description: Round Two: Oct. 27: 17 UTCRatingNameG1 G2G3T#72019330; #720198082443 + 2246Pioleen + Radon1113#72020794; Prathu No-showed2512 + 2169JKcheesechess + DroptheSeventh0000 Description: Group Three: 16 UTC RatingName2884 + 2090icystun + smokincaruana2558 + 2279sakthi09 + N_A_V_A2398 + 2202ShintoTsukoyami + realmoxile2490 + 1684rezacz + maciek_92 Round One: Oct. 19: 16 UTCRatingNameG1G2G3G4G5T#71677428; #716782392490 + 1684rezacz + maciek_92101002#71679252; #71679980; #716807792558 + 2279sakthi09 + N_A_V_A010113 Discussion: Oct. 20: 16 UTCRating NameG1G2G3T#71714981; #717163792884 + 2090icystun + smokincaruana1113#717167722398 + 2202ShintoTsukoyami + realmoxile0000 Discussion: Round Two: Oct. 26: 16 UTCRating NameG1G2G3T#71978840; #719794912912 + 2132icystun + smokincaruana1113#719800052559 + 2264sakthi_09 + N_A_V_A0000 Description Group Four: 0 UTC RatingName2607 + 2597rojitto + Cha_charealsmooth2637 + 2484MisterWish + Dreamconquerer2435 + 2383Mati4333 + Roadrunner182407 + 2316Khazekamel + Legend_007 Round One: Oct. 19: 0 UTCRating NameG1G2G3G4T#71653153; #716537432607 + 2597rojitto + Cha_charealsmooth01113#71654007; #716543682435 + 2383Mati4333 + Roadrunner1810001 Description: Oct. 20: 0 UTCRating NameG1G2G3G4T#71690109; #716903232637 + 2484MisterWish + Dreamconquerer11013#71690643; #716911692407 + 2316Khazekamel + Legend_00700101 Description: Round Two: Oct. 27: 18 UTCRating NameG1G2G3G4G5T#72021191; #720218232602 + 2609MisterWish + Dreamconquerer011013#72022674; #72023343; #720239132661 + 2600rojitto + Cha_charealsmooth100102 Description: Round Three: Final Four Players were re-seeded based on team average rating (which was corrected for standard deviation). Number one went against number four, and number two went against number three Seed #Team Avg. RatingName#12846eyeofthetiger1204 + carlosgabriel1234#22631misterwish + dreamconquerer#32588icystun + smoking caruana#42413Pioleen + Radon Match One: Nov. 2: 18 UTCSeed #RatingNameG1G2G3G4T#72281339; #72282376#22603 + 2614misterwish + dreamconquerer00000#72283342; #72284220#32952 + 2145icystun + smoking caruana11114 Description: Match Two: Nov. 5: 16:30 UTCSeed #RatingNameG1G2G3G4T#72396866; #72398508#12965 + 2435eyeofthetiger1204 + carlosgabriel123411114#72398946; #72400048#42573 + 2301Pioleen + Radon00000 Description: Finals: Aftermath: