World champion Magnus Carlsen unveiled a series of online chess tournaments with US$1 million prize money on Thursday having opted out of a ...
World champion Magnus Carlsen unveiled a series of online chess tournaments with US$1 million prize money on Thursday having opted out of a competition held by the game's governing body this month.
FILE PHOTO: Chess - 2018 World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships - Award Ceremony - Saint Petersburg, Russia - December 30, 2018. World Blitz Champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway holds the trophy. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov/File PhotoLONDON: World champion Magnus Carlsen unveiled a series of online chess tournaments with US$1 million prize money on Thursday having opted out of a competition held by the game's governing body this month.
The Norwegian was absent when the World Chess Federation held an online Nations Cup between Russia, United States, Europe, China, India and a Rest of the World team.Yet the 29-year-old has launched his own tour on the back of the Magnus Carlsen Invitational held earlier this month. "The Invitational was a lot of fun and we heard great feedback from the players, our broadcast partners and the viewers," Carlsen said in a statement.There will be three more"majors" before a grand final in August featuring winners of the individual tournaments, the organisers said."While physical chess tournaments and sports are still either cancelled or postponed, bringing an entire chess tour online is what I feel is right for chess now," Carlsen added.
Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Ding Liren, and Iranian prodigy Alireza Firouzja - who were the top four in the first leg - will join eight new players in the tour's next event, Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge, which starts on Tuesday.
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