Champions Showdown 9LX, Day 1

Magnus, Kasparov, Naka & more

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.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4qCYtkZMnU

• 0DAYS
• 8HOURS
• 45MINUTES
• 38SECONDS

Watch on https://lichess.org/event/uWNSOuzu