2016 Champions Showdown: Day 1

Name: 2016 Champions Showdown: Day 1
Uploaded: 2016-11-12T03:20:26+00:00
Description: The Champions Showdown is live from November 10-14. This classical, rapid, and blitz event consists of Fabiano Caruana, Viswanathan Anand, Hikaru Nakamura, and Veselin Topalov. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Alejandro Ramirez, Cristian Chirila, and IM Tania Sachdev for the move-by-move. Today is two rounds of classical chess. USChessChamps.com 2016.11.10

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The Champions Showdown is live from November 10-14. This classical, rapid, and blitz event consists of Fabiano Caruana, Viswanathan Anand, Hikaru Nakamura, and Veselin Topalov. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Alejandro Ramirez, Cristian Chirila, and IM Tania Sachdev for the move-by-move. Today is two rounds of classical chess.

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2016.11.10

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