I think it is going on now, though it may be over by now. They posted the following 3 hours ago.
https://twitter.com/CCSCSL/status/509462833927434240/photo/1
What happened to the Sinquefield Cup 2014 Chess960 match?
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Yeah, I was looking for the livestream for this, too. Not sure why it was not covered or if results were even given...someone really seems to have dropped the ball here. There's no news on Google about it, nothing on the St. Louis chess center's page, nada...
Yes I thought too that the Chess960 match would get livestream coverage. It was really dissapointing and spoiled it for me. I think livestream costs money, and they may have needed to save costs. But thankfully the pgn of the games is available here:
http://www.theweekinchess.com/chessnews/events/2nd-sinquefield-cup-2014
They were great games. I've looked at the first two games in my blog that Hikaru and Aronian played. It is amazing how they can play Chess960 so well on such a short time increment!
There are rumours that Hikaru and Levon are coming back for an exhibition match at St Louis in November.
http://en.chessbase.com/post/behind-the-scenes-of-the-sinquefield-cup
The bizarre thing is that it appears not to contain any Chess960?!? What do we fans have to get to do to get these two greats to play more 960 which we know they enjoy?
We may have to write letters to the managment at St Louis or the managers of Hikaru and Levon. We have got to see them play a genuine 960 matchup between the two world champions.
Agreed, the games are good but what I was really looking forward to was GM-level commentary on Chess960 games and the opening strategies thereof...
There was supposed to be an "Ultimate Showdown" match between Hikaru Nakamura and Levon Aronian both Chess960 world champions. Here was the report:
http://uschesschamps.com/garry-kasparov-saint-louis-compete-ultimate-moves-exhibition
"Ultimate Showdown," a six-game friendly between GMs Levon Aronian and Hikaru Nakamura playing the popular chess variant of Chess960. Both players are former World Champions to the variant, also known as FischerRandom Chess, and will play the exhibition games on iconic furniture used by Fischer and his childhood mentor Jack Collins"
What happened? Was it cancelled?