In traditional chess tournaments, games are played in a best-of-12 format, with one point awarded per win and a half-point per draw. The $100,000 event, which features the top four American players, including Caruana, takes place May 26-29. One of those creative tournaments is Clutch Chess, created by grandmaster and chess commentator Maurice Ashley and hosted by St. It’s nice to see new types of events, so we’re seeing some creative ways in making new tournaments.” “It’s nice to see chess websites and clubs are taking the initiative creating events for players when we’d normally have nothing to do in a time like this. At some point, things will normalize, and we’ll go back to a balance of over-the-board events and online events. We had already seen that happening, but because of the world situation, it’s now a necessity-it’s really the only way we can play chess. “A number of websites and creative events were coming up. “Online chess was sort of making a resurgence in a way,” Caruana says. 1 Magnus Carlsen, who defended his title against Caruana at the 2018 World Chess Championship in London, even launched his own online chess tour-the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour-with a combined $1 million in total purse making it the richest in online chess.
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