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.
The Queen’s Gambit Declined Exchange Variation with 5.Bf4 has a great balance between positional play and sharp pawn pushes; and will be a surprise for your opponents while being easy to learn for you, as the key patterns are familiar.
After 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 5.Bb5 Bd7 6.Qd3, White sidesteps mainline theory and steers the game into less explored, strategically rich positions.
In this course, you will learn the foundations and key ideas of the Vienna Game and discover a variety of systems that make you extremely difficult to prepare for.
Tata Steel 2026 with analyses by Bluebaum, Giri, L'Ami, Woodward and many more. Opening videos by Kasimdzhanov, Marin and Zwirs. 10 exciting opening articles with new repertoire ideas and much more.
In this course, Dutch Grandmaster Jan Werle presents a modern and practical repertoire in the French Advance Variation, focusing on the critical line 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3.
One of the major battlegrounds of the Queen’s Gambit Declined is the Catalan, and against it Zwirs chose an ambitious strategy: accept the pawn and hold onto it with …c6 and …b5, aiming for an unbalanced fight from the very start.
In this course, IM Nico Zwirs presents the Reversed Sicilian as a powerful and practical weapon for White
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