GMs Levon Aronian, Magnus Carlsen, Praggnanandhaa R., and Jan-Krzysztof Duda started with wins in a first round full of fighting chess at the FTX Crypto Cup in Miami. The tournament is the sixth event in the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour and its second "major."
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For this FTX Crypto Cup, the eight players are all playing from the Eden Roc Miami Beach Hotel in Florida with their laptops placed together in one room—or rather, a chess-themed studio designed for what the royal game seems to be in these events: an esport.
In each of the seven rounds, a match of four rapid games is played and if needed, blitz and armageddon follow. In each match, $7,500 is at stake. Players get three points for a straight-out victory in the rapid, or two points vs. one in case of a tiebreak.
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