Chess.com is worked up to announce the 2022 Speed Chess Championship, starting in late November. World #1 GM Magnus Carlsen returns to a completely star-studded 16-player discipline that additionally contains four-time Speed Chess Champion GM Hikaru Nakamura.

As the Speed Chess Championship enters its sixth 12 months, we see the strongest and most fun lineup but. 15 of the gamers can be trying to break Nakamura’s ongoing run of dominance. Since Carlsen received the inaugural 2017 version, Nakamura has claimed the final 4 from 2018-21. The discipline will play for a complete prize fund of $100,000 and the world’s most prestigious on-line velocity chess title. 

The different confirmed gamers within the sensible discipline are: each upcoming world championship contenders, GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren; reigning world blitz champion GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and reigning world fast champion GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov; reigning U.S. champion GM Fabiano Caruana; 2022 Junior Speed Chess Champion GM Arjun Erigaisi and two extra of India’s brightest younger stars, GMs Nihal Sarin and Gukesh D; and GMs Anish Giri, Wesley So, Levon Aronian, and Dmitry Andreikin.

The ultimate two gamers can be decided through qualifying occasions on November 10-13. The first qualifier can be held on November 10-11 and the second qualifier on November 12-13. All titled gamers are eligible to hitch and the winner of every occasion will qualify for one of many ultimate two spots. The prime eight finishers additionally win money prizes totaling $10,000.

In 2020, Carlsen’s solely tried protection after successful the 2017 version, he was upset by Vachier-Lagrave within the semifinals. Nakamura went on to win. Then, in 2021, Nakamura confronted presumably his hardest run but, after his semifinal match with Ding went all the way in which to armageddon. It will not get any simpler for Nakamura with the return of Carlsen headlining this 12 months’s stacked discipline of opposition.

After that brutal semifinal match, Nakamura went on to defeat So within the ultimate to assert his fourth straight championship.

How will this 12 months’s match play out? Tune in on Twitch, YouTube, and ChessTV to seek out out!

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