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Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz Chess 2020 15-19 September 2020. Saint Louis, United States
Tournament info
The Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz will be held online and will showcase some of the world's top rapid and blitz players including World Champion Magnus Carlsen and a few of the American favorites - Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Leinier Dominguez and Jeffery Xiong.
The ten players will be competing for a $250,000 prize fund in nine rapid games and eighteen blitz games over five days of play.
Games will start daily at 1:00pm CDT (GMT-5) from September 15-19 with expert commentary featuring GM's Yasser Seirawan and Maurice Ashley and WGM Jennifer Shahade.
In the first 3 days a total of 9 rapid games will be played (25+5), 3 games each day. In the remaining 2 days a total of 18 blitz games (5+3) will be played, 9 games each day.
Rapid games count 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw.
