NCS Sunday Cup Grand Prix

NCS Sunday Cup Grand Prix Series are starting in June! There will be 17 players including 6 players who qualified from the prelim rounds in May. They will battle over virtual boards every month to become the champion!

Check out the live streaming link below and make sure to watch, cheer and learn from these exciting games!!

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Result & Players

Rank Name (Lichess Name) GP point Total GP Point
GP1 GP2 GP3 GP4 GP5 GP6
1 IM Nanjo Ryosuke
(rnanjo)
10 3 10 10 10 30
2 FM Yamada Kohei
(Kou88)
3 5 7 5 7 1 19
3 CM Tran Thanh Tu
(gm3t)
5 3 10 3 18
4 FM Aoshima Mirai
(sniper_boy)
7 3 2 5 15
5 FM Baba Masahiro
(Masahirobaba)
1 2 2 7 1 5 14
6 Scott Tyler
(Nobunaga_Oda)
1 5 2 1 7 14
7 Nakamura Naohiro
(rye7)
2 2 3 3 3 3 9
8 Higashishiba Teruomi
(higapon)
3 1 1 1 3 7
9 Higashino Tetsuo
(westin1974)
2 1 2 1 2 1 6
10 Shiomi Ryo
(wrongcastling)
1 1 1 3 1 2 6
11 Hirao Satoshi
(cobaltcocoa)
1 1 1 2 1 4
12 Cabrol Puig Eduard
(Edo_Tokyo_Chessmood)
1 1 1 1 2 4
13 Sakai Enju
(enju0425)
1 1 1 1 1 3
14 Okabe Yuma
(yuutin)
1 1 1 1 1 1 3
15 Furuya Masahiro
(narumeku)
1 1 1 3
16 Abe Taro
(t-a)
1 1 1 1 1 1 3
Koh You Liang
(Isopach)
7 10 17

(Koh You Liang is not in the ranking because of insufficient number of games played.)

Dates

Date Time Event
6/6 (Sun) 13:00~ GP1
7/11 (Sun) GP2
8/22 (Sun) GP3
9/12 (Sun) GP4
10/17 (Sun) GP5
11/14 (Sun) GP6

*Grand final will be at 12/19

Time Control/Format/Schedule

  • 5-Round Swiss, 15 min+10 sec/move, Rapid
  • Pairings and tie-breaks will be set according to the settings on lichess.org.
  • Playing schedule: 13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00 each day

Grand Prix rounds rules:

  • Earn GP points each round.
    1st: 10 points, 2nd: 7, 3rd: 5, 4th-5th: 3, 6th-7th: 2, 8th-20th: 1
  • Best 3 out of 6 results’ GP points will be combined as total.
  • The top six players with the highest GP points advance to the championship game.
    (Best 3 total scores to be used as TB1. Best 3 result’s TB to be used as TB2)
  • Details:  NCS Sunday Cup 2021.

Prize

  • Prelim rounds: 1st place – 5000yen, 2nd place – 3000yen, 3rd place – 2000yen.
    PLUS moodcoins from chessmood.com!!!
  • Moodcoins: 1st place – 50000, 2nd place – 30000, 3rd place – 20000
  • Grand Prix rounds: (more than 60000yen in total).

Links

Sunday Cup 2021

Sunday Cup 2021 OPEN

NCS Sunday Cup Grand Prix

NCS Sunday Cup 2021 Grand Prix Final


Results

GP1 6/6

1st Nanjo Ryosuke 5.0
2nd Koh You Liang 3.5 (9.75)
3rd Tran Thanh Tu 3.5 (9.25)
4th  Higashishiba Teruomi 3.0 (7.00)
5th Yamada Kohei 3.0 (6.00), 2432
6th Nakamura Naohiro 3.0 (6.00), 2416
7th Higashino Testuo 3.0 (4.25)

Cross table on Lichess 

GP2 7/11

1st Koh You Liang 4.0 (13.00)
2nd Aoshima Mirai 4.0 (10.00)
3rd Yamada Kohei 3.5
4th Nanjo Ryosuke 3.0 (9.00)
5th Tran Thanh Tu 3.0 (6.00)
6th Baba Masahiro 3.0 (5.00)
7th Nakamura Naohiro 2.5 (5.25)

Cross table on Lichess

GP3 8/22

1st Nanjo Ryosuke 5.0
2nd Yamada Kohei 3.5 (8.75), 2590
3rd Scott Tyler 3.5 (8.75), 2500
4th  Nakamura Naohiro 3.0 (6.50)
5th Aoshima Mirai 3.0 (6.00)
6th Higashino Tetsuo 3.0 (5.75)
7th Baba Masahiro 3.0 (5.25)

Cross table on Lichess

GP4 9/12

1st Tran Thanh Tu 4.0 (11.50)
2nd Baba Masahiro 4.0 (10.50)
3rd Yamada Kohei 4.0 (10.00)
4th Shiomi Ryo 3.5 (4.50)
5th Nakamura Naohiro 3.0 (7.00)
6th Scott Tyler 2.5 (5.25)
7th Aoshima Mirai 2.5 (3.75)

Cross table on Lichess

GP5 10/17

1st Nanjo Ryosuke 4.0 (11.75)
2nd Yamada Kohei 4.0 (8.50)
3rd Aoshima Mirai 3.5 (8.50)
4th Tran Thanh Tu 3.5 (8.00)
5th Nakamura Naohiro 3.0 (7.50)
6th Higashino Tetsuo 3.0 (6.00)
7th Hirao Satoshi 3.0 (4.50)

Cross table on Lichess

GP6 11/14

1st Nanjo Ryosuke 4.5 (12.50)
2nd Scott Tyler 3.5 (9.25)
3rd Baba Masahiro 3.5 (8.50)
4th Nakamura Naohiro 3.0 (7.50)
5th Higashishiba Teruomi 3.0 (5.00)
6th Cabrol Puig Eduard 2.5 (6.50)
7th Shiomi Ryo 2.5 (6.00)

Cross table on Lichess