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The tour was co-founded by five-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen and German investor Jan Henric Buettner. [2] [3] [4] Carlsen has been an advocate for Chess960 as an alternative to classical chess that eliminates opening preparation and theory. [5] [6] [7] In July 2024, Left Lane Capital invested $12 million in the venture.
Christopher Hikaru Nakamura [2] (born December 9, 1987) is an American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy , he earned his grandmaster title at the age of 15, the youngest American at the time to do so.
Olexandr Bortnyk (born 18 October 1996) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2015, at the age of 19. A chess prodigy , Bortnyk is considered one of the strongest players according to his rating on the chess.com website in the "Blitz" and "Bullet" category.
The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2024 was a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2024 by Chess.com.The tour started on 26 January 2024 and ended on 21 December 2024. It involved four online chess tournaments and an over-the-board final round, featuring some of the world's top players who played for a prize money pool of US$1,700,000.
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City. It was published weekly for nearly a century. Starting in March 2020, it transitioned to every other week.
In December 2020, he made it to the finals round of the Chess.com Bullet Open Championship. [1]In September 2022, he finished second in the late Titled Tuesday tournament.
American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, who has played in every single edition to date, won the event a record five times consecutively from 2018 to 2022. [2] He had also reached every final until 2024, when he was knocked out in the semifinals for the first time. [3] Since 2019, Chess.com has also held the Women's and Junior Speed Chess ...
2009 World Chess960 champion Hikaru Nakamura at Mainz. The World Chess960 Championship is a match or tournament held to determine a world champion in Chess960 (also known as Fischer random chess), a popular chess variant in which the positions of pieces on the players' home ranks are randomized with certain constraints.