National Chess Cup

The national cup is 6 a.m. Pacific Time .The FIDE chess.com national cup. Don't miss the online action so watch it on the link at the bottom.

The FIDE  chess.com nations cup is a team competition held May 5-10 on Chess.com featuring Russia, USA, Europe, China, India, plus a team representing the "Rest of the World."

Some of the strongest grandmasters in the world are competing, such as Fabiano Caruana, Ding Liren, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Maxime, Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Hikaru Nakamura, and Alireza Firouzja but also e.g. Hou Yifan and Ju Wenjun.

The first stage consists of a double round-robin with each team playing each other twice on May 5-9. The top two teams after 10 rounds qualify for a "Superfinal" match. All games will be played on the Chess.com live server. you can find it on their events page and in their Android and iOS apps under 'Watch'. Expert commentary can be enjoyed at Chess.com/TV where the games will be discussed and explained.