Armageddon Online Cup: Americas. Tournament #3. Commentary by Fiona Steil-Antoni & Alex Therrien

November 25, 2022 NHaselton Uncategorized

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Fiona Steil-Antoni and Alex Therrien will commentate the Armageddon Online Cup: Americas on November 27 at 17:00 UTC.

The Armageddon Online Cups are part of the Armageddon Championship Series, the most dramatic chess series.

✨ Online tournaments are organised on a regional basis: Europe & Africa, Americas, Asia & Oceania.
✨ The top-20 players from each online tournament will qualify for the online €10 000 Regional Final.
✨ Six players, the two winners of each Online Regional Final, will meet Wesley So, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Sam Shankland, @Vidit Gujrathi , Richard Rapport, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Vincent Keymer, Leinier Dominguez, Jan-Krzysztof Duda and other the world’ s top grandmasters over-the-board.
✨The Prize Fund for the online qualifying tournaments is up to 60,000 EUR, and the combined prize fund of the Series is 460,000 EUR.

The promo code ARMA25 gives you a 25 percent discount on purchasing a one-year PRO subscription that allows to join the Armageddon Online Cups.

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