Champions Showdown 9LX, Day 1
Magnus, Kasparov, Naka & morehttps://i.imgur.com/x3LjZyh.jpg
The top international chess superstars are set to battle online from September 11-13 in Championships Showdown: Chess 9LX hosted by the Saint Louis Chess Club. Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX will feature the world’s top grandmasters including legendary World Champion Garry Kasparov, the reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen, and World Number 2 Fabiano Caruana. The matches will be played in Chess 960 style, also known as Fischer Random, with a $150,000 prize fund.
Featuring: Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov, Hikaru Nakamura, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Lenier Dominguez, Peter Svidler and Alireza Firouzja
Games will start daily at 1:00pm CDT (GMT-5) from September 11-13 with expert commentary featuring GMs Yasser Seirawan and Maurice Ashley and WGM Jennifer Shahade. Viewers can watch live on uschesschamps.com or on STLChessClub’s YouTube and Twitch.tv channels.
The event is finished.