Match of the Hopes
After the match of the Legends having opposed on May 2006 Anatoly Karpov to Boris Spassky, the Corsican chess League again, organizes a great international match, but, this time , the match of the Hopes.
The “Match of the Hopes” will oppose, on May Friday 18th, in Porto-Vecchio (south of Corsica) the two best young world ‘s players :
Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaïdjan) and Magnus Carlsen (Norway).
The rate of play is 10 mins + 3 secs increment per move. (If the scores are level, tie-break blitz games shall be played).
300 pupils of the area will attend the event.
All details on the site of the Corsican chess League : www.corse-echecs.com/porto-vecchio/porto_vecchio2007.html .
Games on line at the site of the French Chess Federation http://www.echecs.asso.fr/
Moreover, let ‘s stress that 3 000 others pupils will meet in Bastia, this time, on June 7th, for the High-Corsican Chess Championship in partnership with « BNP Paribas » and the « National Center of Space Studies » (CNES), wich can be considered the greatest European school tournament.
Léo Battesti
President of Corsican Chess League
This should be real good. I definitely want to watch all the moves.
I am a Magnus fan but have to give Radj the advantage.
Radjabov is still considered a “junior” !?!?
wow!!!!
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For me he is one of the established great SuperGMs already! :))
Yes Radj has really moved up recently. He is definitely one of the best today. Magnus is moving up into that group but it not quite fully established at the top. He needs to get his rating up a bit higher which he is very successfully doing. But so long as his rating is at 2690 he is not quite there yet.
Love that English translation! “Match of the Hopes” ??
The junior cut-off is the year a player turns 20, so at the moment it is 1987… which is Radjabov’s birth year. So this is his last year on the list (indeed 1987 is one prolific year, 11 of the Top 20 were born in that year). http://www.fide.com/ratings/top.phtml?list=juniors