Arctic Securities Rapid Chess from Saturday: Watch Carlsen, Anand, Polgar and Hammer in action

See you this Saturday: World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen

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Hello Everyone,

Everyone's looking forward to the Arctic Securities Chess Stars tournament beginning on Saturday. The tournament includes six games played on a double round-robin format of rapid chess. Each player will have 20 minutes each and get an increment of 10 seconds per move. The tournament will run from August 28-30.

You can track the proceedings of this top chess clash at the official website here. Who do you think is likely to win and why.

Analysis and commentary will be by International Master Torstein Bae.

From Alexandra Kosteniuk's

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Also see her personal blog at

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