
Jan Gustafsson, Jeffery Xiong, Le Quang Liem are among the stars in action in the second 8-player qualifier for the chess24 Banter Series. They’re battling for a single place in the 16-player final featuring the likes of Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana. The time control will be 3 minutes + a 2-second increment per move and the matches will be best of 8 games.
Day 1 03/09 Quarter-Finals:
Match 1) 11:00 CEST GM Hrant Melkumyan vs GM Raunak Sadhwani
Match 2) GM Jan Gustafsson vs GM Luis Supi
- English Stream by Jan Gustafsson
- Portuguese Stream by Luis Supi
Match 3) 21:00 CEST GM Le Quang Liem vs IM Lawrence Trent
- English Stream by Le Quang Liem
- English Stream by Lawrence Trent
Match 4) 23:00 CEST GM Jeffery Xiong vs IM Hans Niemann
- English Stream by Jeffery Xiong
- English Stream by Hans Niemann
Day 2 04/09: Semi-finals
Match 5) Winner of Match 1 vs Winner of Match 2
Match 5) Winner of Match 3 vs Winner of Match 4
Day 3 05/09: Final
Winner of Match 5 vs Winner of Match 6. The champion of the B Qualifier will go to the Finals.
Check out full details of the Series here: https://chess24.com/en/read/news/chess24-banter-series
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