Ultimate Moves in Saint Louis - Live!

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10/27/2024 – The Chess 9LX tournament, organised by the Saint Louis Chess Club, starts on Monday. On Sunday, the event is inaugurated with the Ultimate Moves exhibition match. The players take turns in two teams: Team Rex v. Team Monopoly. Among those taking part will be Garry Kasparov (pictured, 2023) and main sponsor Rex Sinquefield. | Follow the action live from 19.00 CET (14.00 ET, 23.30 IST).

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Champions Showdown: Chess9LX 2024

This October, just after the US Championships, the Champions Showdown: Chess9LX event returns with another exciting edition featuring top players from the United States alongside legendary former world champion Garry Kasparov.

Competing for a total prize purse of $150,000, the participants will compete in nine rounds of Chess 960 (also known as Fischer Random Chess) with a rapid time control.

The event kicks off on 27 October with Ultimate Moves, an entertaining exhibition event featuring Saint Louis Chess Club co-founder Rex Sinquefield, Garry Kasparov and the rest of the Chess9LX participants competing in a high stakes blitz team match.

At a glance

Dates: 27-30 October 2024

Venue: World Chess Hall of Fame

Format: Round Robin, Chess960 (Fischer Random)

Time control: 20 minutes for the game plus 10-second increments

Prize fund: $150.000

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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.

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60m English Anti-Bayonet

King’s Indian fans who choose the Mar del Plata attack (7...Nc6) against White’s classical system (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0) usually aim for a complex position with mutual attacks on open wings, requiring long-term strategic planning and tactical sharpness in critical moments. Computers often do not know how to handle the arising complex strategic positions, which suits players who like to think on their own instead of memorizing long variations. However, the fashionable Bayonet Attack (9.b4) interferes with Black’s ideas. After Black’s main move 9...Nh5 the positions opens, the lines get forced and computer analysis is important again. But this DVD offers an antidote against White’s Bayonet Attack, namely 9...a5! This move leads to sound positions with very few concrete lines, in which the focus is on strategy not on tactics. Objectively chances are equal but if Black knows what to do things might quickly become dangerous for White.