The 2014 Sinquefield Cup will be the highest-rated tournament in the history of chess, bringing six of the world’s top-nine Grandmasters together at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.
Last year, the inaugural super-tournament thrilled spectators as the strongest chess competition ever held on U.S. soil. For its 2014 encore, beginning August 27 to September 7, the tournament will be the strongest ever held on earth, its six players averaging a historical peak FIDE rating of 2802.
World Champion Magnus Carlsen (2877), winner of the 2013 Sinquefield Cup, will return to defend his title against an expanded field. This year’s prestigious event will award $100,000 to its winner, part of a $315,000 total prize fund.
Returning with Carlsen is Armenia’s Levon Aronian (2805) and the United States’ Hikaru Nakamura (2787), respectively the World’s No. 2 and No. 5 players.
New challengers to the Sinquefield Cup include Italy’s Fabiano Caruana (2801), Bulgaria’s Veselin Topalov (2772) and France’s Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2768).
The 2014 Sinquefield Cup will be a six-player, double round-robin tournament, and will be followed by a bonus event titled “Ultimate Moves” to be held through Tuesday, September 9. Ultimate Moves will feature eight teams made up of a GM and an amateur player, where teammates alternate moves.
Now that Kasparov was soundly and fairly defeated, will he be there?
Wesley So should be playing !!!
Wesley will win this Cup easy!!
Mr Rex Sinquefield loser in recent FIDE election, will seek solace on his own tourney as strongest on earth. But he, Kasparov & party got WIPED OUT in Fide election lol Kasparov now will go nuts like Fischer… too Kaspy LET IT GO, LET IT GO lol