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Anand to start campaign with Korchnoi Challenge
This year’s Zurich Chess Challenge will have Korchnoi added to it in honour of the former World Chess Challenger who died last year. World champions Vladimir Kramnik of Russia and Viswanathan Anand will be the top two seeds in the event starting in Zurich on April 12. This is Anand’s first event of the year and he will then proceed to play in the Grand Chess Tour.
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The seven-round all-play-all in Classical 45 minutes plus 30 seconds-for-move format from April 13 to 16. The tournament will be held at Hotel Savoy Baur en Ville with an impressive opening ceremony that is highlighted by a musical performance of four superb musicians:
Ilya Gringolts, one of the most inspirational violinists, Boris Adrianov, a multiple international prize winner for his amazing cellist talents, Dmitry Illarionov, probably the most talented guitarists of modern Russia, and Leonard Schreiber, a Belgian violinist. The audience in the Savoy can therefore expect a musical performance of an outstanding artistic value.
In addition, the opening ceremony will welcome the 12th World Chess Champion and chess legend Anatoli Karpov, the 1993 Vice World Champion Jan Timman, the Dutch Grandmaster Gennadi Sosonko, who was, like Karpov and Timman, a long-time rival and competitor of Viktor Korchnoi, plus several other honorable guests well-known throughout the chess world and beyond.
The ceremony will be followed by a round robin Blitz tournament of the 8 participants of the Grandmaster tournament. The entire event can be followed in a livestream that will be shown on the tournament website, www.zurich-cc.com.
There will be a tournament named Kortchnoi Open to be held alongside the main event with 13 Grandmasters with Elo rating of 2600 and above. Among them are well-known world class players like Alexei Shirov, Alexander Motylev, Eltaj Safarli, Eduardo Iturrizaga, Aleksandr Rakhmanov and Loek van Wely.
THE FIELD:
- Vladimir Kramnik (RUS) 2811 Elo points
- Viswanathan Anand (IND) Elo 2786 points
- Hikaru Nakamura (USA) Elo 2793 points
- Ian Nepomniachtchi (RUS) Elo 2751 points
- Peter Svidler (RUS) Elo 2747 points
- Boris Gelfand (ISR) Elo 2724 points
- Grigoryi Oparin (RUS) Elo 2604 points
- Yannick Pelletier (SUI) Elo 2541 points
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