A web based ‘Bullet Chess’ championship is drawing huge money and large names
On: July 4, 2023
On-line chess chief Chess.com is internet hosting its fifth annual Bullet Chess Championship event, and the lineup is fairly wild to take a look at. World #1 Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen will seem, as will rising Grandmaster and former event winner Alireza Firouzja. Reigning Bullet Chess champion Grandmaster Hiraku Nakamura, well-known for streaming on Twitch and YouTube to his 2 million subscribers, can even face off as soon as once more with Grandmaster Andrew Tang—who virtually stole the title from him final 12 months.
Oh, and there is this different Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky—he simply beat Carlsen and Nakamura in a Bullet competitors this previous weekend. The full prize pool is a few $100,000.
Bullet Chess is the quickest model of what are referred to as fast chess variants—you might need heard of Blitz chess. This event model of Bullet Chess offers gamers a mere minute on the clock, every, to make their strikes. The Chess.com Bullet Championship will happen on July 17 to 21 and guarantees to be an unimaginable train of sport within the game of kings. Esport, I assume, since they’re taking part in on-line.
Now that I give it some thought, do these tournaments make chess the primary game to be a transmedia esport—equally bodily and digital? Both method you can watch on chess.com/television, Twitch, or YouTube with commentary by Chess.com’s specialists.
If you happen to’re simply catching on, Chess has had explosive reputation the previous couple of years. Web chess has really modified how the game is performed and loved, to not point out ballooned the recognition of pace chess types which are simply as entertaining to look at as play. It is so explosive that Chess.com was hit with a giant outage earlier this 12 months. “Actually, this sucks,” mentioned Chess.com because the proliferation of gamers and progress simply completely pounded its servers.
There will probably be three qualifier occasions for the Bullet Chess Championship this week for six locations in the primary occasion. These occasions are open to any titled participant on Chess.com—of which there are fairly a couple of. These will occur on Thursday, July 6 at 9 am PT/18:00 CEST, and two on July 7 at 9 am PT/18:00 CEST and 12 am PT/21:00 CEST.
