Freestyle Chess Las Vegas: Players, schedule, format, live streaming and everything else you need to know

Freestyle Chess Las Vegas: Players, schedule, format, live streaming and everything else you need to know

The fourth leg of the inaugural Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour gets underway in Las Vegas, USA on Wednesday with world No 1 and Freestyle Chess co-founder Magnus Carlsen eyeing a hat-trick of victories after emerging triumphant in Paris and Karlsruhe.

Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura had squared off in the Paris Grand Slam final and also headline the Las Vegas leg that gets underway on Wednesday, 16 July. Image credit: Freestyle Chess