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.
Time control: each match will feature 90 minutes of 5+1 blitz, 60 minutes of 3+1 blitz, and 30 minutes of 1+1 bullet chess.
Participants: Hikaru Nakamura, Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Vladislav Artemiev, Alireza Firouzja, Vladimir Fedoseev, Anish Giri, Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana, Nodirbek Abdussatorov, Nihal Sarin, Parham Maghsoodloo, Haik Martirosyan
Schedule:
November 1, 2020 at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe: Vachier-Lagrave vs. Sarin
November 2, 2020 at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe: Carlsen vs. Maghsoodloo
November 4, 2020 at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe: Firouzja vs. Fedoseev
November 8, 2020 at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe: So vs. Abdusattorov
November 11, 2020 at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe: Nepomniachtchi vs. Aronian
November 12, 2020 at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe: Nakamura vs. Martirosyan
November 15, 2020 at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe: Caruana vs. Duda
November 16, 2020 at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe: Giri vs. Artemiev
Watch the games of the 2020 Speed Chess Championship with computer analysis LIVE on ChessBomb.
