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Tomorrow at noon EST the finals of the 2020 Speed Chess Championship.
5 time US Champion Hikaru Nakamura has already won his semi final and he will likely be up against Classical Chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen (assuming Carlsen wins today at noon)
This is speed chess - the variant the Benny initially destroyed Beth in 5 minute games and kept taking her money.
For the championship, it will be slightly different - they will play with a 1 second increment added for each move and there will be rounds of 5-1 games, 3-1 games and finally, 1-1 bullet chess - 1 minute games with a second added for each move made.
Hikaru is the defending speed champ and gets better as the time controls get lower - he will be wanting to get to the bullet close to even and beat Magnus during the one-minute games.
Hikaru plays the clock as well as the person and the board - as the time controls get shorter, he will be steering the games in chaotic messy positions.
Magnus is almost impossible to beat at Classical time controls - he lost his first in Oct and had his 125 game unbeaten streaked ended and just beat Nakamura in the Rapid Chess Championship (30 minute games) which is the middle ground between speed chess and classical.
Nakamura broke Bobby Fischer's record as the youngest US Grandmaster achieving the title at 15.
I have never played Nakamura in a classical game but when we were both about the same strength in classical chess (Hikaru was about 13) we played 4 blitz games and even at that age, he was clearly much much stronger at Blitz. He took the games into chaos and crushed me.
If you were a fan of the series, you might enjoy watching it live
There will be multiple streams on youtube and twitch
Chess.com - will have a stream where you can watch the players faces as they play the game. Both players are pretty expressive.
Chessbase India will have the best technical analysis of the games
Gotham Chess on twitch is run by Hikaru's friend and will be a "homer" stream for the American.
This is a 16 second clip of Hikaru in action. Notice how he looks into space to calculate - just like Beth in the series - the static board is actually a distraction for him because the pieces move in his mind and don't on the board.
And when he says "I don't want to think" he means, that he the resulting position is still complicated, not what he just did.
https://youtu.be/Lqqu09Hm3Qw
5 time US Champion Hikaru Nakamura has already won his semi final and he will likely be up against Classical Chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen (assuming Carlsen wins today at noon)
This is speed chess - the variant the Benny initially destroyed Beth in 5 minute games and kept taking her money.
For the championship, it will be slightly different - they will play with a 1 second increment added for each move and there will be rounds of 5-1 games, 3-1 games and finally, 1-1 bullet chess - 1 minute games with a second added for each move made.
Hikaru is the defending speed champ and gets better as the time controls get lower - he will be wanting to get to the bullet close to even and beat Magnus during the one-minute games.
Hikaru plays the clock as well as the person and the board - as the time controls get shorter, he will be steering the games in chaotic messy positions.
Magnus is almost impossible to beat at Classical time controls - he lost his first in Oct and had his 125 game unbeaten streaked ended and just beat Nakamura in the Rapid Chess Championship (30 minute games) which is the middle ground between speed chess and classical.
Nakamura broke Bobby Fischer's record as the youngest US Grandmaster achieving the title at 15.
I have never played Nakamura in a classical game but when we were both about the same strength in classical chess (Hikaru was about 13) we played 4 blitz games and even at that age, he was clearly much much stronger at Blitz. He took the games into chaos and crushed me.
If you were a fan of the series, you might enjoy watching it live
There will be multiple streams on youtube and twitch
Chess.com - will have a stream where you can watch the players faces as they play the game. Both players are pretty expressive.
Chessbase India will have the best technical analysis of the games
Gotham Chess on twitch is run by Hikaru's friend and will be a "homer" stream for the American.
This is a 16 second clip of Hikaru in action. Notice how he looks into space to calculate - just like Beth in the series - the static board is actually a distraction for him because the pieces move in his mind and don't on the board.
And when he says "I don't want to think" he means, that he the resulting position is still complicated, not what he just did.
https://youtu.be/Lqqu09Hm3Qw