Champions Chess Tour Finals - How to Watch the Grandmasters Compete
The Champions Chess Tour has finally culminated in the Finals, with the best of the best chess masters coming together to prove themselves in the biggest competitive chess tournament of the year.
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Champions Chess Tour Finals Competitors
The CCT Finals will have the top eight Grandmasters competing together after qualifying through the Champions Chess Tour circuit or making it to the top of the leaderboard. Here are the finalists:
- Magnus Carlsen
- Nodirbek Abdusattorov
- Fabiano Caruana
- Hikaru Nakamura
- Wesley So
- Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
- Alireza Firouzja
- Denis Lazavik
Prize Money
The Finals has a $500,000 prize pool. This is actually part of the $2 million prize pool from the Champions Chess Tour circuit. Here is the prize pool breakdown:
- 1st Place - $200K
- 2nd Place - $100K
- 3rd Place - $50K (x2)
- 5th Place - $25K
- 6th Place - $20K
- 7th Place - $15K
- 8th Place - $12K
- Per Playoff Match Win - $1K
CCT Finals Date and Schedule
The Champions Chess Tour Finals have started. But it’s not too late to tune in if you want to see the best chess players in the world duke it out for the title.
- December 9, 8:30 AM PST - Round Robin, Rounds 1-6
- December 10, 8:30 AM PST - Round Robin, Rounds 1-6
- December 11, 8:30 AM PST - Round Robin, Rounds 1-6
- December 12, 8:30 AM PST - Round Robin, Round 7 + Survival Stage
- December 13, 8:30 AM PST - Semifinals, Day 1
- December 14, 8:30 AM PSt - Semifinals, Day 2
- December 15, 8:30 AM PST - Title Match 1, Day 1
- December 16, 8:30 AM PST - Title Match 1, Day 2
How to Watch the Champions Chess Tour Finals
It’s not too late to tune in if you want to see the best of the best players compete head to head. You can watch the livestream on Chess.com’s website or the usual suspects, Twitch and YouTube.
