5/10/2020 – The FIDE Nations Cup, a phenomenally strong online tournament, is being played on May 5-10. Six teams (Europe, Russia, India, China, USA, and the Rest of the World) play an online rapid team competition featuring some of the world's best players. USA and China qualified to the Superfinal. The games start 16:00 CEST / 10 a.m. Eastern / 7 a.m. Pacific.
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USA vs. China
The International Chess Federation and Chess.com announce the Online Nations Cup, a team competition held May 5-10, 2020. Six teams are due to take part in this competition: Russia, USA, Europe, China, India, plus a team representing the "Rest of the World."
Two retired legends, Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik, will be the captains for the European and Indian teams respectively. A former world championship rival of both of them, Viswanathan Anand, will defend the first board of the Indian team.
The games will be played in a rapid format, where each player begins the game with 25 minutes on their clock, plus 10 seconds of extra time added after each move.
In order to guarantee fair play in an entirely online event, during their games, players will be observed by FIDE-affiliated international arbiters via a video conference call.To ensure that the participants don't receive any kind of external help from a computer, their webcam, computer screen and the room in which they are playing will be under supervision.
The group stage runs May 5-9, with two rounds per day. The Superfinal is played on May 10. The games start 15:00 CEST / 9 a.m. Eastern / 6 a.m. Pacific.
Schedule
Date
Pacific time
Eastern time
CEST
Event
May 5
6 a.m.
9 a.m.
15:00
Round 1
May 5
7:45 a.m.
10:45 a.m.
16:45
Round 2
May 6
6 a.m.
9 a.m.
15:00
Round 3
May 6
7:45 a.m.
10:45 a.m.
16:45
Round 4
May 7
6 a.m.
9 a.m.
15:00
Round 5
May 7
7:45 a.m.
10:45 a.m.
16:45
Round 6
May 8
6 a.m.
9 a.m.
15:00
Round 7
May 8
7:45 a.m.
10:45 a.m.
16:45
Round 8
May 9
6 a.m.
9 a.m.
15:00
Round 9
May 9
7:45 a.m.
10:45 a.m.
16:45
Round 10
May 10
7 a.m.
10 a.m.
16:00
Superfinal
The tournament will be broadcast live across multiple outlets including FIDE's and Chess.com's own channels across Twitch, YouTube, Mixer, Twitter, and other international streaming platforms. With an estimated audience of several million worldwide, commentary by chess experts will be conducted in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Turkish and Polish.
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