Chess.com's 2017 Speed Chess Championship
Props to Chess.com for putting on another very strong knockout speed tournament this year. Who's playing? Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Levon Aronian, Hikaru Nakamura, Sergey Karjakin, Anish Giri, Alexander Grischuk, etc. - the full bracket is here. (Other info, including the schedule and prize money breakdown, is here.)
The 16-player field has been whittled down to 15, as the first match has already taken place, between Nakamura and Sergey Grigoriants. (You can watch a replay of the games and coverage here.) It won't be much of a spoiler to learn that Nakamura won a very one-sided match, but his opponent put up a very creditable fight until several games into the bullet portion.
Two matches are coming up this week: Karjakin against Georg Meier tomorrow (Wednesday) at 1 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CET, and 24 hours later it's time for a heavyweight battle between So and Giri. After that, nothing happens in the event until June 22, when another superstar event between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Aronian is in the offing.
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