GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown with two games to spare. He defeated World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju two times, and then beat GM Fabiano Caruana twice, to win the event and earn $120,000, all before his final match against GM Hikaru Nakamura. He made two draws against Nakamura and earned a $50,000 bonus in the end.
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Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown, taking place from October 27-30 in St. Louis, is a rapid event featuring the world’s top-three players and World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. It is a nine-round, 18-game tournament consisting of three double round-robins played with time control of 10+5. Players progressively earn more points in each round-robin; one point for a win in round-robin one, two in round-robin two, and three in round-robin three. The prize fund is $412,000.
