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The opening ceremony of the 2021 US Chess Championships will be held the evening of Tuesday, October 5, though chess fans nationwide are invited to join the private event online. While 24 of Americas strongest players reunite in the St. Louis MUNY, an outdoor Municipal Opera Theatre in the city's Forest Park, the championship host Saint Louis Chess Club will stream the ceremony live beginning at 7:15 p.m. central.

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2021 U.S. Chess Championships: Opening Ceremony & HOF Inductions

Tuesdays opening event will feature the drawing of lots for both the 2021 U.S. Championship and the U.S. Womens Championship, as well as the inductions of Rex Sinquefield and Dr. Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame. The philanthropist couple, who among many other things that credit a rapid resurgence of American chess over the past decade, built the Saint Louis Chess Club as host of the national championships for 13 consecutive years, as well as relocate the World Chess Hall of Fame to help convert St. Louis into the nation's chess capital.

Previously finding a home in New York, Washington D.C. and then Miami, the World Chess Hall of Fame is now parked in a three-floor, 15,000-square-foot gallery museum across the street from the club, and contains both the U.S. and the World Chess Halls of Fame. Both Halls are active this October; the U.S. will catch pace tonight with the Sinquefields -- 2020 nominees who missed induction due to the pandemic while the World Chess Hall of Fame has its inductions planned during the national championship closing ceremonies on October 19. The 2021 World inductees will be Grandmaster legends Judit Polgar, Miguel Najdorf and Eugene Torre.

Each and every induction into the Chess Halls of Fame has always deeply moved me, but seeing Jeanne and Rex, the founders of the Saint Louis Chess Campus now join the ranks of other chess legends is certainly an honor, said Shannon Bailey, chief curator of the WCHOF. They are truly deserving of the recognition and are responsible for rejuvenating both national and global interest in chess.

The opening ceremony of the 2021 U.S. Championships will stream live Tuesday evening, beginning at 7:15 p.m. St. Louis time. The event may be viewed on the Saint Louis Chess Club YouTube channelor the official website of the U.S. Championships, http://www.uschesschamps.com.

Both national championships will see their first moves pushed on Wednesday, October 6 at 1:00 p.m. central and may be viewed live on the same channels, along with the GM commentary team of Maurice Ashley, Alejandro Ramirez and four-time US Chess Champion GM Yasser Seirawan.

Check back with CLO for daily coverage of the 2021 US Chess Championships through October 19.

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The 2021 Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix concluded Saturday with the fourth and final leg. There were $11,000 in prizes to play for even though GM Jeffery Xiong had already clinched the overall Grand Prix standings and a spot in the Speed Chess Championship Main Event with his outstanding play in the previous three legs. Xiong had nothing to worry about as he left the Grand Prix to play his fourth-round game at the U.S. Championships instead.

In the Swiss portion of the final Grand Prix leg, another Main Event participant, GM Hikaru Nakamura, scored 8/10 and held the best tiebreaker to win first place. Already a participant in the Main Event, Nakamura was ineligible for the ensuing knockout, making GM Oleksandr Bortnyk the top seed. Bortnyk was eliminated in the semifinals by GM Baadur Jobava, who in turn was defeated by GM Nodirbek Yakubboev in a dramatic final.

With the qualification spot already claimed, the Swiss event took on greater importance this week. By winning it, Nakamura claimed the day's largest cash haul of $2,500. Yakubboev, by finishing third in the Swiss and then winning the knockout, earned the second-most with $2,300, while Bortnyk took $1,800 by virtue of finishing second in the Swiss.

Entering the final round of the Swiss tournament, the first-place prize was still anyone's to grab: Bortnyk and GM Boris Savchenko led the field with 7.5/9 while six players, including Nakamura, were right behind them at 7/9. Bortnyk quickly made a draw, while Yakubboev toppled Savchenko and moved into the top three.

But it was Nakamura who finished in first place after defeating GM Mikhail Demidov and then ending with the best tiebreaker of the four players on 8/10.

The final player on 8/10 was Russian NM Valery Sviridov, who won $1,000 for the effort.

Both 3|1 games in the final of the knockout stage between Yakubboev and Jobava were back-and-forth draws, leading to the dramatic 1|0 bullet game to decide who would win the $1,000 for claiming the final. It was Yakubboev after delivering checkmate on move 41.

The SCC Grand Prix is in the books, but two more spots are still to be had in the SCC Main Event. The Speed Chess Championship Super Swiss will be held next weekend, October 16-17. After that and the finals of the 2021 Junior Speed Chess Championship between GMs Nihal Sarin and GM Raunak Sadhwani, the Main Event field will be complete. It begins November 12.

Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix 4 | Final Standings (Top 20)

(Full final standings here.)

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The FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss is a chess tournament that is part of the world championship cycle. The 2021 Grand Swiss will determine two candidates for the 2022 world championship.

The 2021 Grand Swiss was announced on December 15, 2020. Its change of venue from the Isle of Man to Riga, Latvia was announced on August 9, 2021.

The inaugural FIDE Chess.com Women's Grand Swiss will be held concurrently. The winner advances to the 2022 Women's Candidates Tournament.

You can keep up with the Grand Swiss at our Events page. You can also watch the live broadcast on Chess.com/TV or on our Twitch and YouTube channels.

The 2021 event will be held from October 27 to November 7, with players arriving October 25 for the opening ceremony on October 26. Players depart November 8.

The FIDE Grand Swiss takes place in Riga, Latvia.

The 2019 tournament was held in Douglas, the capital of the Isle of Man, a British dependency. The 2021 tournament was originally scheduled to be played there as well, but was moved "due to the strict COVID-19 restrictions still in place in the Isle of Man and the UK," according to FIDE.

The change of location did not affect the dates and format of the 2021 event.

The Grand Swiss and the Women's Grand Swiss share the same format. They are 11-round Swiss tournaments, meaning players on the same score face each other every round. However, no player faces another player more than once. If two players are tied for first place entering the final round but they played earlier in the tournament, they would each face someone just below them in the standings instead of each other for a second time.

The time control in the Grand Swiss is 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 50 minutes for the next 20 moves, and finally 15 minutes for the rest of the game. There is a 30-second increment starting from move 1.

The time control for the Women's Grand Swiss is somewhat shorter: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, also with a 30-second increment starting on move 1.

There is a tiebreaker system rather than additional games, which is as follows. Descriptions are from the FIDE Handbook.

This year's field was announced by FIDE on September 30. The open field is headlined by GMs Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Richard Rapport, Alireza Firouzja, and Hikaru Nakamura. The women's field is highlighted by GMs Kateryna Lagno, Mariya Muzychuk, Alexandra Kosteniuk, and Nana Dzagnidze.

The complete player lists are available on the FIDE website here (open) and here (women's).

The top two players qualify for the 2022 Candidates Tournament. The third- through eighth-place finishers gain a spot in the 2022 FIDE Grand Prix (a three-tournament series from February to April 2022, which is itself a path to the Candidates Tournament as well).

The monetary prize fund is $425,000, with $70,000 going to first place. The top 40 finishers receive a prize, as below:

The prize fund in the Women's Grand Swiss is $125,000, with the winner receiving $20,000 as well as a spot in the 2022 Women's Candidates Tournament.

The complete FIDE regulations for the 2021 Grand Swiss can be found here. Regulations for the Women's Grand Swiss are located here.

The Grand Swiss is a relatively new tournament, first held in 2019. Only the winner received a spot in the Candidates, instead of the top two finishers as in 2021. The victor in 2019 was GM Wang Hao, who scored 8/11 and won on the tiebreak system over GM Fabiano Caruana and qualified for the 2020 Candidates. Caruana had already qualified by winning the 2018 Candidates to become that year's challenger to GM Magnus Carlsen's world championship.

The 2021 Grand Swiss is only the second edition.

2021 is the first year with a Women's Grand Swiss.

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Chess, in India, has been on a rise ever since the covid-19 pandemic struck last year. With a majority of the population stuck inside their homes for a major part of the year due to various kinds of lockdown and no other sporting activities possible, people took to chess.

This coupled with the chess streaming scene led by comedian Samay Raina and International Master (IM) Sagar Shah and the release of Netflix's Queen's Gambit a web series based on chess further increased the popularity of the strategy-based game in India.

With the chess fever in India growing stronger than ever, the sport's streaming pioneers in India Raina and Shah, have partnered with Nodwin Gaming to host the Chess Super League (CSL) a one of its kind online chess league.

With the Chess Super League expected to kickstart today, here is all you need to know about the league

The Chess Super League will be contested by a total of six teams:

The following are the owners of the six teams in the Chess Super League:

Teams

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The Kingslayers

Tanmay Bhat

Brutal Bishops

Kalamkaar

Krazy Knights

Biswa Kalyan Rath and Shreyas

Pivotal Pawns

Zakir Khan

Quintessential Queens

Saina Nehwal and Suhani Shah

Ruthless Rooks

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Each team is formed by a total of 6 players, including two juniors and two international players. Here is how the team's line up for the Chess Super League:

The Kingslayers

Anish Giri, Arpita Mukherjee, Dommaraju Gukesh, Nana Dzagnidze, Soumya Swaminathan and SP Sethuraman

Brutal Bishops

Alexandra Kosteniuk, Eesha Karavade, Raunak Sadhwani, Tarini Goyal, Vidit Gujarathi and Wang Hao

Krazy Knights

Aryan Chopra, Hikaru Nakamura, Krishnan Sasikiran, Maria Muzychuk, Mary Ann Gomes and Mrudul Dehankar

Pivotal Pawns

Abhijeet Gupta, Arjun Kalyan, Bhakti Kulkarni, Ding Liren, Savitha Shri and Zhansaya Abdumalik

Ruthless Rooks

Anna Muzychuk, Harika Dronavalli, Harshit Raja, Karthikeyan Murali, Saina Salonika and Teimour Radjabov

Quintessential Queens

Hou Yifan, Koneru Humpy, P Iniyan, Priyanka K, Sergey Karjakin and Rania Sachdev

The Chess Super League will start on 11th October 2021 and will run until 17th October 2021.

The Chess Super League will be played in a round-robin format with a time control of 15 minutes + 10 seconds increment per move.

After the round-robin ends, the bottom two teams in the points table will bid goodbye to the tournament while the top four will advance to the playoffs.

The top two teams after the round-robin stage will play Qualifier 1 the winner of which will go into the final and the loser will have one more shot at reaching there in Qualifier 2.

On the other hand, the third and fourth-placed team will play an Eliminator with the losing team exiting the event and the winning team moving into Qualifier 2 against the loser of Qualifier 1.

The games will be held from 8 pm IST to 11 pm IST daily.

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14-year-old IM Christopher Yoo won his first Titled Tuesday this week, scoring 9.5 in the October 5 event to finish in sole first. There was a six-way tie for second place on 9 points out of 11. After tiebreakers were applied, GM Artem Timofeev came in second place,GM Hikaru Nakamura in third, and GM Max Warmerdam in fourth place.

496 players participated this week in Titled Tuesday, which was its typical 11-round Swiss tournament with a 3+1 time control.

Live broadcast of this week's tournament, hosted by WCM Rebecca Selkirk.

Yoo did not lose a game, drawing in rounds four, eight, and 10 while winning his other eight matchups.

In the 11th round, he needed just 22 moves to defeat GM Aleksandar Indjic, sacrificing a knight for a blistering attack. This win enabled Yoo to leapfrog Indjic in the standings to take the top position. No one else on 8.5/10 entering the final round won their game.

Even one of Yoo's draws was notable. GM Grigoriy Oparin was the last perfect player, with 7/7 entering the eighth round, and had an advantage on both the board and the clock against Yoo. But the teenager, who spent most of the end of the game with less than two seconds on the clock, held his nerves and his position in what proved to be a major turning point of the event.

Elsewhere in the standings, Warmerdam (the 47th seed in the tournament) used a dominant passed a-pawn to win a rook and defeat the top seed Nakamura in the fourth round. Both ultimately finished in paid positions.

October 5 Titled Tuesday | Final Standings (Top 20)

(Full final standings here.)

IM Salimova won $100 as the top female player. Prizes were back to normal after some unusual circumstances the two previous weeks.

Titled Tuesday is a Swiss tournament for titled players running on Chess.com every week. It starts at 10 a.m. Pacific time/19:00 Central European every Tuesday.

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