2025 Champions Showdown | The Kings: Day 1

February 5, 2025 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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Live from the World Chess Hall of Fame, the second Kings event is a three-round six-player (listed below) Swiss. Each round’s pairings feature semi-classical, rapid, and blitz time controls. Every game is worth money; the player who earns the most money at the end wins! Join GMs Yasser Seirawan & Cristian Chirila, IM Irene Sukandar, and WGM Katerina Nemcova for the move-by-move

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BLITZ 1 | 3 Min. Incr. 2 Sec. (Winner $4500, Loser $1125)
Fabiano Caruana
Hikaru Nakamura
Levon Aronian
Wesley So
Leinier Dominguez
Ray Robson

RAPID 1 | 15 Min. Incr. 10 Sec. (Winner $6750, Loser $2250)
CLASSICAL 1 | 60 Min. Incr. 15 Sec.
(Winner $10500, Loser $3500)

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