Chess.com Speed Chess Championship Main Event 2020

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. Each individual 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-Maghsoodloo

November 4, 2020 at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe: Firouzja-Fedoseev

November 8, 2020 at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe: So-Abdusattorov

November 11, 2020 at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe: Nepomniachtchi-Aronian

November 12, 2020 at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe: Nakamura-Martirosyan

November 15, 2020 at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe: Caruana-Duda

November 16, 2020 at 9 a.m. Pacific / 18:00 Central Europe: Giri-Artemiev