India, Aug. 22 -- Viswanathan Anand is set to face Garry Kasparov in a special exhibition match in October this year. The exhibition match will be called 'Clutch Chess', and both players will take on each other in a Chess960 match, which will consist of 12 games. It is part of the St. Louis Chess Club's reopening of its newly expanded campus.

There will also be a rapid tournament which will feature Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana and D Gukesh as participants.

Anand and Kasparov's match will be played between October 7 and 11, and will have a 144,000 USD prize fund. The pair will also play games in the rapid and blitz time controls.

Speaking in a press release, Kasparov said, "Saint Louis has become the beating heart of...