Sofia will host M-Tel Masters for the fifth time
- The six participants in the super chess tournament (FIDE XXI category) are Veselin Topalov, Magnus Carlsen, Vassily Ivanchuk, Yue Wang, Leinier Dominguez and Alexei Shirov.
- The games will be played in a glass pavilion on the square in front of the National Theatre Ivan Vazov.
- General sponsor of the tournament is the mobile operator M-Tel.
For the fifth time
General sponsor of the tournament is
In this year’s edition of the tournament will take part the 19th Wiorld Champion and leader in the FIDE World Ranking Veselin Topalov, the best young chess player of the last years Magnus Carlsen (№ 3 in the world) from Norway, the 2007 blitz World Champion and winner in last year’s edition of M-Tel Masters Vassily Ivanchuk from Ukraine, the best chess player of Asia Yue Wang from China, Latin America’s strongest player Leinier Dominguez and № 1 of Spain Alexey Shirov, finalist from the World Cup 2007 in Khanty-Mansiysk.
The average ELO of the six Grandmasters is 2753, which makes the
M-Tel Masters is part of the international chain of chess tournaments Grand Slam that includes three of the world’s strongest tournaments: Corus in Wijk an Zee (
The patron of the tournament will traditionally be the President of the
The time control of a single game is 90 minutes for 40 moves per player and 60 minutes per player till the end of the game. The maximum period for a single game is 5 hours. Each player will play two games against each of the five Grandmasters with exchanged colors. This year again the rules known in the world of chess as “the
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At least there is no Cheparinov this year to provide Topalov with 2 points for free….
hehe good stuff! i see they still using the Ashley rule!?
At least there is no Cheparinov this year to provide Ivanchuk with 2 points for free…
Is there a special prize of 100.000 Euros for the best Bulgarian player like last year?
Since when was wang yue the strongest asian player? i thought it was anand…
“The average ELO of the six Grandmasters is 2753, which makes the Sofia tournament FIDE XXI category. Only 5 tournaments in the history of chess have been of the same category.”
Only 5 tournaments??
I knew there were at least 11: Las Palmas 1996, Dortmund 2001, Linares 1998, 2000, 2008, 2009, mexico City WC 2007, Bilbao 2008, Melody Amber 2008, 2009, Nanjing 2008.