10/10/2025 – Two former world champions, Viswanathan Anand and Garry Kasparov, face each other in "Clutch Chess: The Legends", a 12-game chess960 exhibition match held from 8 to 10 October at the newly expanded Saint Louis Chess Club. The event features rapid and blitz games with increasing point values and prize stakes each day. | Follow the action live starting at 19.00 CEST (13.00 ET, 10.30 IST)
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The Saint Louis Chess Club is reopening its newly expanded 30,000-square-foot campus this October with a full month of special events, beginning with Clutch Chess: The Legends, a three-day exhibition match between two of the most celebrated world champions in history, Viswanathan Anand and Garry Kasparov.
The match will be contested over twelve games in the Chess960 (Fischer Random) format. The format alternates between rapid and blitz games. Six of the twelve games (rounds 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, and 10) are played at a rapid time control of 25 minutes per side, with a 10-second increment from move one. The other six (rounds 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, and 12) will use blitz time controls of 5 minutes plus a 3-second increment. Four games are played each day.
A total prize fund of $144,000 will be distributed across the match, using the distinctive "clutch" scoring system. Points and prize values increase each day, adding strategic depth as the match progresses.
October 8 (starting at 15.00 local time) - 1 point for a win, ½ point for a draw
October 9 (starting at 12.00 local time) - 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw
October 10 (starting at 12.00 local time) - 3 points for a win, 1½ points for a draw
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