Woman Grandmaster Tatev Abrahamyan recaps the second day of rapid play of the online Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz featuring Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, and defending champion Levon Aronian.
2020.09.16
USChessChamps.com
The online Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz showcases the world’s top quick players including World Champion Magnus Carlsen and Americans Nakamura, So, Dominguez, and Xiong. The ten players compete for a $250,000 prize fund in nine rapid games and eighteen blitz games over five days. The middle three rapid rounds are today. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Maurice Ashley, and WGM Jennifer Shahade for the move-by-move.
2020.09.16
USChessChamps.com
The online Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz showcases the world’s top quick players including World Champion Magnus Carlsen and Americans Nakamura, So, Dominguez, and Xiong. The ten players compete for a $250,000 prize fund in nine rapid games and eighteen blitz games over five days. The last three rapid rounds are today. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Maurice Ashley, and WGM Jennifer Shahade for the move-by-move.
2020.09.17 USChessChamps.com
Woman Grandmaster Tatev Abrahamyan recaps the first day of rapid play of the online Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz featuring Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, and defending champion Levon Aronian.
2020.09.15
USChessChamps.com
The online Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz showcases the world’s top quick players including World Champion Magnus Carlsen and Americans Nakamura, So, Dominguez, and Xiong. The ten players compete for a $250,000 prize fund in nine rapid games and eighteen blitz games over five days. The middle three rapid rounds are today. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Maurice Ashley, and WGM Jennifer Shahade for the move-by-move.
2020.09.16
USChessChamps.com
The online Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz showcases the world’s top quick players including World Champion Magnus Carlsen and Americans Nakamura, So, Dominguez, and Xiong. The ten players compete for a $250,000 prize fund in nine rapid games and eighteen blitz games over five days. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Maurice Ashley, and WGM Jennifer Shahade for the move-by-move.
2020.09.15
USChessChamps.com
National Master Caleb Denby looks the biggest opening successes and disasters from 2020 Champions Showdown | Chess 9LX, a Fischer random chess (also known as Chess960) event. Learn to identify weaknesses in the opening position.
Grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian shows positions from real games. See if you can find the best moves.
National Master Caleb Denby looks at how to formulate an opening plan in Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960.
2020.09.14
Hikaru Nakamura vs Peter Svidler, Champions Showdown Chess 9LX (2020)
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Alireza Firouzja vs Hikaru Nakamura, Champions Showdown Chess 9LX
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The Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz will be held online and will showcase some of the world’s top rapid and blitz players including World Champion Magnus Carlsen and a few of the American favorites - Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Leinier Dominguez and Jeffery Xiong. The ten players will be competing for a $250,000 prize fund in nine rapid games and eighteen blitz games over five days of play.
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