Chess Games Blog Zurich Chess Challenge 2015 Begins

Zurich Chess Challenge 2015 The 4th edition of the Zurich Chess Challenge begins today Friday 13th to 19th of February, 2015 at Hotel Savoy Baur en Ville in Zurich, Switzerland. The tournament is a five rounds of classical chess starting on Valentines day, 14th through 18th of February followed by a rapid tournament with reversed colours on the closure day (February 19, 2015), match starts at 3 pm and 11 am respectively. A blitz tournament will be played by the participants to decide the pairings on the opening day. A won game in the classical tournament will counts two points, draws one point, while a win in the rapid tournament counts as one point and a draw as half a point, for the overall standings. Participants Participants are Grandmasters Fabiano Caruana (World number two), The two former world champions Viswanathan Anand and Vladmir Kramnik, Levon Aronian (Former world number two) Hikaru Nakamura (Winner of recently concluded Gribraltar Masters) and Sergej Karjakin who will be playing a simultaneous exhibition against representatives of the sponsors at the Zunfthaus zur Saffran on February 12th. The winner of last year tourney Magnus Carlsen wont be defending his title. Also, a rapid competition will be played between the two famous and oldest active chess Grandmasters Viktor Kortchnoi (2499) and Wolfgang Uhlmann who both will be celebrating their 84th and 80th birthday respectively on 23rd and 29th March 2015. Time Control The Zurich Chess Challenge is a six player round robin event with time control of 120 minutes per 40 moves plus additional 60 minutes per 20 moves and the rest of gameREAD MOREThe post Zurich Chess Challenge 2015 Begins appeared first on Knightmates.