The London Chess Centre is pleased to announce that the line up for the London Chess Classic 2009 is complete after GM David Howell of England accepted his invitation. This creates a balance to the event, an eight player all play all, with four world class players pitched against England’s four highest rated Grandmasters. Using the latest available ratings and information supplied by the players on their recent successes, the tournament rating average is currently well above 2690 and may reach 2700 by December.
The players are:
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia)
Magnus Carlsen (Norway)
Hikaru Nakamura (USA)
Ni Hua (China)
Michael Adams (England)
Nigel Short (England)
Luke McShane (England)
David Howell (England)
Nigel Short and Hikaru Nakamura are both in great shape. Nigel recently dominated the Sigeman tournament at Malmo and Hikaru won the US Championship held at St Louis. Vladimir Kramnik was top scorer at the Azerbaijan v Rest of the World match with 6.5/8.
Play begins Tuesday December 8th and runs until Tuesday December 15th
The venue for what will be the most prestigious chess tournament in the capital for 25 years will be announced shortly.
Malcolm Pein
London Chess Centre
Why Ni Hua? Why not Wang Yue?
“Why Ni Hua? Why not Wang Yue?”
Because everyone is tired of publicly beating Wang.
They need a rest from that kind of thing, Ni?
well the venue will be Simpsons no doubt …
“Why Ni Hua? Why not Wang Yue?”
Or Bu Xiangzhi, or Wang Hao, or Ding Liren that won the Chinese Championship? There surely are enough chinese player’s to choose from … Ni Hua probably being as good a choice as any one of them.
Dunno who Ni Hua is but this team should be stronge enough to expose nige short and his european Assizes! This guy thinks he knows it all!