Senior Champion: grandmaster Joel Benjamin
Girls’ Junior Champion: international master Carissa Yip Tournaments were played back-to-back, with players competing in 3 rounds per day starting with playoffs to follow the final round. Senior Championships were 10-player round robin events. Women’s Championship were both 12-player round robin events, while the U.S. Chess Championships consisted of five national tournaments that were held in rapid format: U.S. Chess Championship, held for the first time all online. 2, Fabiano Caruana, with Carlsen claiming victory in the final round.Īnother feather in the cap for online chess fans was the 2020 U.S. The Clutch Chess International tournament concluded with a gripping final match between world champion Magnus Carlsen and world No.
Eight top grandmasters competed for an impressive $265,000 prize fund playing 10+5 games in a knockout format. Louis Chess Club offered a new event in June 2020 that was double the size and included an international playing field. After the first clutch event in May 2020 with a US-only field, the St. Most elite chess players were quarantined and stuck at home due to travel restrictions making it possible for them to play in more tournaments against other elite players in multiple online tournaments simultaneously, something unheard of in regular over the board tournament play.Ĭlutch Chess is just one example of a genre of chess that kept the game new and exciting this past year. While many sports were adversely effected as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, online chess emerged as one of the newer sports obsessions.
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