The American Cup 2025: Day 8 | Grand Finals

Live from the World Chess Hall of Fame, two double-elimination tournaments feature America's best overall chess players and America's best women players! Today features the first classical game in the grand final of each tournament, where the winner of the Champions bracket plays the winner of the Elimination bracket (pairings below). Join GMs Yasser Seirawan & Cristian Chirila, IM Eric Rosen, and WGM Katerina Nemcova for the move-by-move.

2025.03.22

*OVERALL BRACKET | GRAND FINAL | GAME 1 (G/90+30)*
Hikaru Nakamura vs. Fabiano Caruana

*WOMEN'S BRACKET | GRAND FINAL | GAME 1 (G/90+30)*
Alice Lee vs. Tatev Abrahamyan

[tkokesh]

Hikaru Nakamura: pretty good at chess:

[riverpapa-gwey]

the guy in the monitor is probably the greatest chess he is so good....

[nickguyrees]

Great commentary as always, but I was a bit surprised by Christian's combative framing. "You're not getting out" versus "White/Black is not getting out."

[randoooooooooooom]

what a disgrace to the sport not inviting Niemann, yall should be ashamed

[slycat]

Why do they show the women's games? Truly why?