Watch the Armageddon Series: Asia & Oceania Day 1

You can’t make a diamond without a little pressure. Who are you backing for Armageddon: Asia & Oceania?

Legendary Vladimir Kramnik was Garry Kasparov’s protégé before going on to beat him in 2000. With the highest peak rating for this heat (2817) and 14 World Championship wins he’ll be hard to overcome but India’s Vidit Gujrathi and Gukesh Dommaraju , China’s Yu Yangyi and fashionable favourite Daniil Dubov are all strong contenders, with savage competition from Karthikeyan Murali , Parham Maghsoodloo and Nodirbek Abdusattorov. Yet none of them have played under the diabolical time pressure of Armageddon…

See who smashes it and who gets cut from the board with play-by-play commentary, sideline coverage, and thrilling live heartbeat and calorie-burned-level data points, all broadcast live from Berlin. It’s going to be brutal.

Tune in April 3-9 at 20:00 CET!