Showing posts with label Zurich Chess Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zurich Chess Challenge. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Category 23 tournament in Zurich!

12/24/2013 – It's not official yet, but it looks like that for the first time in chess history we are going to see a category 23 (average 2801) tournament. Six players – Carlsen, Aronian, Nakamura, Caruana, Gelfand and Anand – will play in the classical round robin Zurich Chess Challenge, from January 29 to February 4th 2014 – with a rapid tagged on. In related news we are pleased to inform you that the ailing chess legend Viktor Korchnoi, 82, is returning to chess.