2nd ACP World Rapid Cup in Odessa, Ukraine
January 4-7, 2008.
16 players are taking part in this event:
Peter Svidler
Alexei Shirov
Vassily Ivanchuk
Peter Leko
Teimour Radjabov
Sergey Karjakin
Boris Gelfand
Dmitry Jakovenko
Pavel Eljanov
Ernesto Inarkiev
Evgeny Najer
Alexander Shabalov
Boris Savchenko
Anatoly Karpov (Wild card)
Judit Polgar (Wild card)
Yuri Drozdovskij (Wild card)
Official website: http://worldcup.pivdenny.com/
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Finally, the big guys are not ducking Radjabov, the biggest talent out there. Now we will see why. Assuming they don’t ransack his hotel room as before or cheat him, he will win this event. Mexico would have ended differently had he been allowed to play.
Go Judit!
Yay! Judit will be there!