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Armageddon Chess Series: Europe & Africa Week
Armageddon Chess Series: Europe & Africa Week.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n31 May 2023\nWorld Chess Plc\n(\"World Chess\" or the \"Company\" or the \"Group\")\nWorld Chess' Armageddon Series announces Europe and Africa Week\nWorld Chess Plc (LSE: CHSS), a leading chess organisation seeking to promote the mass market appeal of chess globally through the commercial offering of different chess-related activities, continues its Armageddon Championship Series with Europe and Africa week. Kickstarting on June 12, 2023, the high-stakes event will follow the same dramatic format and immense time pressure constraints as the previous Armageddon events.\nWorld Chess launched the Armageddon Championship in March 2023, bringing a fresh new twist to this traditional and timeless game. The series has daily matches consisting of two blitz games (three minutes plus a two-second move increment) and, if necessary, an Armageddon game (five minutes for White, four for Black). So far, the championship has hosted the Americas, Asia and Oceania and Women's Week. The Europe and Africa week will be the penultimate leg of the series before the Grand Finale which will be streamed on international television in September.\nThe start of the tournament will feature eight players from Europe & Africa region, including Michael Adams from England. Michael became a chess grandmaster at seventeen, is a seven-time British Chess Champion and holds the highest achieved chess player rating of anyone in England.\nIn addition to this, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France), Richard Rapport (Romania), Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland), Jorden van Foreest (Netherlands), Vincent Keymer (Germany), as well as Matthias Bluebaum (Germany) and Alexander Donchenko (Germany), both of whom successfully qualified online, will also be competing. This group of Individuals will battle it out in a double-elimination format, with daily matches consisting of two blitz games with the potential for an additional Armageddon game if a victory does not emerge.\nThe winner and runner-up will join an exciting line-up of finalists in the Grand Finale to be held at World Chess' newly opened Chess Club in Berlin, where they will compete for the total prize of €200,000. The tournament will follow a dramatic format, with the players' real-time heartbeat and calories burnt displayed alongside immense time controls and breakneck moves all adding to the excitement.\nThe Armag...