The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis will host a news press
conference Friday, April 24 at 3:00pm CDT to announce the establishment
of a new international chess circuit that will involve the world's leading
professional chess players. You can watch it live in this news stream of
the organizers:
The press conference starts at 15:00h = 3 p.m.
local time, 22:00h European Summer Time,
21:00 London, 23:00 Moscow, 1 a.m. (Saturday) in India, 6 a.m. Saturday
in Australia.
You will find the starting time at your personal location here.
Press release by CCSCSL Staff on April 07, 2015 in
Garry Kasparov vs. Nigel Short, Battle of the Legends
World chess legends Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short will meet later this
month for the first Battle of the Legends exhibition match, to be held in
Saint Louis, the Chess Capital of the United States.
On April 25-26, former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov and famed English
Grandmaster Nigel Short will play a series of blitz and rapid games at the
Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL), rekindling the
duo’s match at the 1993 World Chess Championship.
Kasparov is widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all
time, one of the youngest World Champions in history, who held the world’s
No. 1 spot from 1985 until his retirement in 2005. Hailed a chess prodigy
at the age of ten, Short was one of the youngest grandmasters in the world,
earning the title at age 19 in 1984. Later he became the first Englishman
to compete for the World Chess Championship in 1993.
“Rapid and blitz chess are – as the name suggests, fast and
furious," Kasparov said. "The smallest mistake can ruin a strategy
quickly. It’s not often that I get to play Nigel and relive that moment
on the chess world stage in 1993, and we’re both excited to have Saint
Louis as the venue for this exhibition. An international spotlight has been
shone on the city thanks to the efforts of the Chess Club and Scholastic
Center, advancing chess through its combination of research, scholastic
programs and these high-profile events and exhibitions.”
The April match will feature a total of ten games spanning over two days
of play, each featuring one game with a rapid time control, and four games
with the faster blitz time control. The entire event will be broadcast live
on the U.S. Chess Champs web site,
featuring live commentary and analysis from a world-renowned commentary
team.
“We’re honored to host two of the chess greats for this exhibition
match,” said Tony Rich, Executive Director of the CCSCSL. “Our
work at the club is focused on raising awareness of chess and we can’t
think of a more distinguished match-up to do just that than Garry Kasparov
and Nigel Short.”
- Schedule: April 25 and 26, with one rapid game, followed
by four blitz games each day
- Time Controls: Rapid 25 minutes, with a ten second
increment; Blitz five minutes, with a three second increment.
The event is unrated, and there will be no tiebreaks in case of a drawn
match.
