Шахматные Новости

16-24 октября 2010

24 players over 2700 ELO will participate in the 2010 European Chess Club Cup. Top rated participant is GM Levon Aronian (2783) who will play on board 1 for MIKA Yerevan. A few days are left before the finalization of the lists, for now a total of 115 GMs, 57 IMs, 40 FMs, and 214 titled players have signed up for the strongest club event of the year, equivalent to the Champions league in football.
The strongest team is the newly formed SOCAR Azerbaijan with average ELO of 2732. Five of their top boards are in the 2700 club - GM Mamedyarov, GM Grischuk, GM Shirov, and GM Radjabov. The team is completed by the ex world champion GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov and the Azeibarjan stars GM Mamedov and GM Safarli

Данаилов Илюмжинов

‘Experience’ против ‘Rising Stars’
12-22 August


‘Experience’ 
Boris Gelfand
Peter Svidler
Peter Heine Nielsen
Loek van Wely
Ljubomir Ljubojevic

 ‘Rising Stars’
Hikaru Nakamura
Fabiano Caruana
Wesley So
Anish Giri
David Howell

FIDE Women Grand Prix in Jermuk
23rd June - 6th July 2010 in Jermuk, Armenia

The FIDE Women Grand Prix series continues with Jermuk tournament which will take place on 23rd June - 6th July 2010 in Jermuk, Armenia. The winner of each tournament will win 6,500 euros out of a prize fund of 40,000 euros and the overall winner of the series will win a further 15,000 euros at the end of the series.

Супертурнирчик однако.

Magnus Carlsen
Wang Yue
Boris Gelfand
Teimour Radjabov
Ruslan Ponomariov
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu.