Justin Reid picks off Kyler Murray to win NFL chess tournament

[daves]

From The Athletic:

In the fourth edition of Blitzchamps, a chess tournament featuring eight current and former NFL players, Justin Reid emerged as the winner, taking home the largest share of the $100,000 prize pool for charity.

Two-time Super Bowl-winning safety Reid, who signed with the New Orleans Saints this offseason, won his second straight Blitzchamps, beating Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray in the finals on June 16.

The eight participants to compete for charity in high-speed chess were Reid, Murray, Justin Herbert, Mack Hollins, Richard Sherman, Rashawn Slater, AJ Dillon, and Harrison Phillips. Players played online on Chess.com, and it was livestreamed on the site’s YouTube channel. [....]

It was a double-elimination format, with a winners and losers bracket. All matches were best-of-two, and each player started with five minutes on the clock in the winners’ bracket, three minutes in the losers’ bracket, and both had one-second increments with each move (considered time to move the piece).

In the event of a tie, players competed in a sudden-death match, as happened in the final. Reid defeated Murray 2-1 in a repeat matchup of last year’s Blitzchamps III final.

Murray resigned in the third game after a blunder when he moved h4, trapping his Queen when Reid moved Bg4, but the quarterback still won $20,000 for the Kyler Murray Foundation.

 

[Ronin]

Already in mid season form

 

[Shane]

Par for the course

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

He can envision moves three moves ahead. That’s what makes him a great QB.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Figures that he'd get beaten by a safety.

 

[oaken1]

y'all got jokes...but I know the hating is instinctual.
However you are missing the fine print. Chess is a game of planning and strategy...and speed chess is about quick decisions....and our QB has been in the finals two years in a row. Lost both times, sure. But still in the championship match...and he is doing it for charity.
Would we be hating if he lost the super bowl 2 years in a row?? Jim Kelly lost four in a row...but dude is still a legend in Buffalo.
I kinda like that he plays a game as cerebral as chess. Lots of similarities to football....you guys would really be going off if it were a Call of Duty tournament.