Preview of Round 3 of the Crazyhouse World Championship

Round 3 of the Crazyhouse World Championship is underway all over the world as crazyhouse enthusiasts go head to head in a bid to reach the Candidates Round which will choose the challenger to face JannLee in a final which will be held live later this year in Sidney, Australia!

This week, we have the elimination bracket games among those who have already lost one game in the double-elimination knockout and over the next fortnight the big guns will also be playing their round 3 games. No games are going to be easy because only three more wins in a row would be enough to qualify to the Candidates if players keep winning, while twice as many games need to be won if they lose one. Highlights of the round include mastertan (#3) - terra87 (#30), gnejs (#1) - larso (#32), garnek123 (#12) - profz (#21), Vempele (#9) - pknm (#24), penguingim (#8) - amaidel (#40), gsvc (#13) - apterigo (#20), B0N0B0 (#10) - retardedplatypus123  (#23) and Mugwort (#11) - Kleerkast (#22), the latter already scheduled for this Sunday. 

There will be plenty of strong matches in the elimination round also. Check out the draw for the full list of matches to be played. Players report  the time they have scheduled to the relevant thread on the CWC team page so that it can be added to the calendar. To see the full calendar of upcoming matches click here.

Notice also this Friday, in an event organised by opperwezen, the two titans of the game JannLee and TwelveTeen will go head-to-head in their first ever ZH960 match with a 3+5 time control on the chess variants website, which incidentally is also a great home for ZH puzzles. 

See you next time for the recap and analysis of round 3! In the meantime, do join the Discord and check out the previous blogs on zhchess.blogspot.com if you haven't already seen them.

—okei