FIDE Online World Corporate Championship | Play-off
Nepomniachtchi, Ian vs. Meier, Georg
The FIDE Online World Corporate Championship Play-off is a knockout held on chess.com on February 21 featuring the 8 teams who won their groups. The quarterfinals and semi-finals feature a single rapid match. If the scores are level a blitz match is played, and then, if necessary, an Armageddon game is played between a chosen player from each team. The final is the same except that two rapid matches are played before blitz.
Each team can feature one invited player, must have no more than one >2500 rated player and must include a female player. For rapid players receive 10 minutes for the entire game, plus a 2-second increment starting from move one. Blitz is 3+2, while in Armageddon White has 5 minutes to Black's 4 but a draw counts as a win for Black. Official website: worldcorporate.fide.com