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The 2020 Speed Chess Championship Main Event is a knockout tournament among 16 of the best grandmasters in the world who will play for a $100,000 prize fund, double the amount of last year. The tournament will run November 1-December 13, 2020 on Chess.com. Each individual match will feature 90 minutes of 5+1 blitz, 60 minutes of 3+1 blitz, and 30 minutes of 1+1 bullet chess.
In the six previous matches Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Fedoseev, Wesley So, Levon Aronian and Hikaru Nakamura qualified for the quarterfinal.
The remaining matches in the round of the last 16:
Navigating the Ruy Lopez Vol.1-3
The Ruy Lopez is one of the oldest openings which continues to enjoy high popularity from club level to the absolute world top. In this video series, American super GM Fabiano Caruana, talking to IM Oliver Reeh, presents a complete repertoire for White.
Commentary by GMs Jan Gustafsson and Peter Svidler
