Top Names in Moscow Blitz Chess Championship 2013 on Sept 1; Watch Live
Alexandra Kosteniuk's Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) 2013
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A number of well-known Grandmasters will take part in the event – the 2012 World Rapid Champion Sergey Karjakin, the 2012 World Blitz Champion Alexander Grischuk, two-times Russian Champion Alexander Morozevich and reigning Women's World Blitz Champion Valentina Gunina.
The event will consist of eight tournaments: the main Moscow Final Championship, Moscow Final “B” Championship, Women’s Championship, Veteran Groups (men and women), Junior Groups (boys and girls), and the Moscow Chess Federation Journalists Cup.
The time control will be 5 minutes per player per game. The tournaments will start at 12:00 local time and the closing ceremony will be at 18:00.
Many famous players were Moscow Blitz Champions, including the names like Mikhail Tal, Vassily Smyslov, Yuri Averbakh, Evgeny Vasiukov, Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Grischuk and Alexander Morozevich.
Vasiukov and Morozevich are holding the record number of trophies – six each. (News by Eldar Mukhametov, press secretary of the Moscow Chess Federation/www.chessdom.com)
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1 Comments:
At August 31, 2013 at 12:28 PM ,
Amrit Puri, Knights Chess Club, New Delhi said...
which city in the world has the strongest chess competitions? ;)
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