2019 Champions Showdown

This year Mr. Sinquefield, the American Chess benefactor, put on the plate $300,000 to host in his beloved and marvelous St. Louis Chess Club an interesting event, which sees the participation of ten top GMs.

The new American GM Lenier Dominguez is going to wear the star and stripes flag, as he changed federation recently.
The exhibition event features five matches:

Name	Rapid Blitz FIDE Rating	Federation		Name	Rapid Blitz FIDE Rating	Federation
Fabiano Caruana	2772 2770	USA	vs.	Pentala Harikrishna	2711 2641	India
Hikaru Nakamura	2845 2894	USA	vs.	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	2716 2818	Poland
Wesley So	2797 2775	USA	vs.	David Navara	2688 2661	Czech Republic
Leinier Dominguez	2816 2717	USA	vs.	Veselin Topalov	2717 2708	Bulgaria
Sam Shankland	2622 2639	USA	vs.	Richard Rapport	2708 2695	Hungary

Each match has a prize fund of $60,000, with 36,000 going to the winner and 24,000 to the loser.
The contestants will play Rapid (15 minutes plus a 10-second increment) and Blitz (3 minutes plus a 2-second increment), over 5 days.

The Internet Chess Club will relay the moves. Games start February the 20th, at 1 PM PST, 2 PM EST, 20:00 CET, 19:00 UK.