Schacksnack

The top two American players, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, meet in an exhibition match. The co-feature match pits GM’s Hou Yifan against Parimarjan Negi. Round 1 is Basque Chess. Join GM Yasser Seirawan, GM Maurice Ashley, and WGM Jennifer Shahade for the move-by-move.

The Chess Club is running a poll on Twitter where followers may vote for the starting positions, selected by Garry Kasparov, of all four games of Fischer Random Chess during Showdown in St. Louis. These games will be played on Friday, November 13 at 1pm.