WELT shows chess live and exclusively in a completely new pace and look. In the Armageddon Championship Series, 32 world-class players compete in five tournaments for a total of 460,000 euros in prize money. Now it’s time for the grand finale with the eight best participants.
The game is played in a fast-paced and extremely intense blitz format. No game lasts longer than ten to twelve minutes. There are at least eight per match day and they are played in a specially built TV studio on Unter den Linden, in the heart of Berlin. The players are wired, so you as a spectator can follow their moves as well as their heartbeats.
“The Armageddon Series is reaching its climax. The best chess players compete against each other under enormous pressure with the chance of winning 200,000 euros and the title,” says Ilya Merenzon, CEO of London-based organizer World Chess.
In the grand final week, eight world-class players will compete for the title of the Armageddon Championship Series from September 14th to 20th from 7:00 p.m.
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In Germany you can follow all games live and exclusively on WELT. All you need is a WELTplus subscription. You can then find the stream on our website or conveniently in this article. The game always starts at 7 p.m., but of course we also offer a relive format for every match day. Of course, you can also watch all the games and the exciting finals of the first tournaments again, including the world-class players Wesley So and Wladimir Kramnik.
We were able to recruit three of the most famous and profound German chess experts as commentators. Georgios Souleidis (“The Big Greek”), Sonja Bluhm and Niclas Huschenbeth.
