Bilbao Final Masters 2010
Pairings, information, and live games
Bilbao for the hosting of the 3rd final of the Grand Slam Chess Masters, which will be played from October 9th to 15th. Playing in this year’s final are the current World Champion Viswanathan Anand, the winner of the Wijk aan Zee, Nanjing and Bazna tournaments and current world number one Magnus Carlsen, the best Spanish player Alexei Shirov, and ranked fifth in the world Vladimir Kramnik. Anand and Carlsen were seeded into the Final Chess Masters, while Shirov and Kramnik both qualified after placing first and second respectively in the preliminaries held in Shanghai from September 3rd to 8th.
During the opening ceremony, the pairings of the event became known. In the first round the chess fans will be able to enjoy the following games:
Kramnik vs. Carlsen (live with analysis here)
Shirov vs. Anand (live with analysis here)
More about the Grand Slam 2010 events
Carlsen wins Nanjing – and crosses 2800 ELO
Carlsen wins Corus Chess 2010 – all games with GM commentary
Veselin Topalov wins Linares – all games with commentary
Carlsen wins Bazna Kings 2010 – round by round report
Next on the Grand Slam 2011
Nanjing 2010 chess tournament with Anand, Topalov, Carlsen, Gashimov, Wang Yue, and Bacrot
Tata steel chess 2010 – Carlsen, Anand, Kramnik
Anand will win all of them