Chess960: Champions Showdown LIVE

Champions Showdown

Five matches will be held in Chess960 (a.k.a. Fischer Random Chess), where the starting position will be drawn at random from 960 possibilities. The prize fund is USD $250,000.

Games are played with a "delay" — if the players make their moves within the delay time, no time is deducted from their clock. If they exceed the delay, the clock begins counting down.

Match winners

Live commentary video

Master Class Vol.7: Garry Kasparov

On this DVD a team of experts gets to the bottom of Kasparov's play. In over 8 hours of video running time the authors Rogozenko, Marin, Reeh and Müller cast light on four important aspects of Kasparov's play: opening, strategy, tactics and endgame.

Commentary by GM Yasser Seirawan, GM Maurice Ashley and WGM Jennifer Shahade

Standings after Day 3

Schedule (all times in CEST, UT+2)

Opening package: 1.b3 and Black Secrets in the Modern Italian

Wesley So published two new opening DVDs: 1.b3, the so called Nimzo-Larsen-Attack, for White and his black secrets in the modern Italian. Get them in a package and save money!

Six rapid chess games will be played with 30 minutes per player and a 10-second delay per move. The rapid games are counted double (two points for a win, one point for a draw). Fourteen blitz games will be played with 5 minutes per player plus 5 seconds delay per move. The blitz matches use traditional scoring.

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Links

• Official site
• Garry Kasparov will play Chess960 event in Saint Louis
• More stories on the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis