Chess.com Coverage Of World Rapid & Blitz Begins Thursday
Chess.com's over-the-board coverage continues with World Rapid & Blitz, featuring some of the strongest speed chess players in the world. With $1 million in prizes up for grabs, GM Yasser Seirawan and GM Robert Hess will have the call as the action begins Thursday, December 26 at 4 a.m. PST on Chess.com/TV and continues until December 30 across all of Chess.com's video streaming channels. The field will feature household names including Hikaru Nakamura, Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri and many more.
More information on Chess.com's commitment to covering more over-the-board events on ChessTV can be found below.
Expanding its popular coverage of live events, Chess.com has increased its live-streaming analysis of major over-the-board tournaments throughout 2019. The analysis has aired live on Chess.com's Twitch channels: the flagship Twitch.tv/Chess, and the alternate channel Twitch.tv/ChessComEvents.
Chess.com has covered over-the-board super-grandmaster tournaments with a lineup of chess-master analysts, including IM Daniel Rensch, Hess, GM Eric Hansen, GM Aman Hambleton, Seirawan and more guest commentators. All streams have featured enhanced production values, viewer interaction and live chess education, move-by-move.
The expanded coverage kicked off Saturday, July 27 with analysis of the Paris Rapid and Blitz Grand Chess Tour super-tournament. Rensch was at the helm for the analysis team of the Paris stream, with live coverage of games which covered the full rounds of some of the most important tournaments in the world.
Analysis of the Paris Rapid and Blitz will feature games by 10 of the world's best fast-chess players: Vishy Anand, Fabiano Caruana, Daniil Dubov, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Anish Giri, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Nakamura, Ian Nepomniachtchi andVachier-Lagrave.
Live analysis streams are planned for more major over-the-board chess events in the coming year:
- Candidates Tournament
- Chess Olympiad
- Grand Chess Tour
- World Chess Championship
- and much more
The enhanced analysis schedule is in addition to the regularly scheduled coverage of Chess.com's major events, including the Speed Chess Championship and its main bracket in September.
You can follow all of Chess.com's live coverage of major chess events on Twitch.tv/Chess and Twitch.tv/ChessComEvents.
For the full schedule of Chess.com's in-house events, see the ChessTV schedule. For a full list of over-the-board events, visit Chess.com/events.
