Thursday, February 12, 2009

Linares 2009 Soon, Participants and Info

Here is the field for the Linares Super Tournament, held in Linares, Spain. February 19 - March 7. It is a double-round robin tournament of 14 rounds, with a time control of 40 moves in 120 min, 20 moves in 60 minutes, followed by a final 20 minutes after move 60. Rest days are February 23th, 27th and March 4th. It will be tough keeping up with all the action in the last two week of February into March, but who could ask for better chess?

The Big Guns:

GM Viswanathan Anand IND 2791
GM Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2779
GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 2776
GM Teimour Radjabov AZE 2761
GM Levon Aronian ARM 2750
GM Wang Yue CHN 2739
GM Alexander Grischuk RUS 2733
GM Leinier Dominguez CUB 2717


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