There is a big rapid tournament is Spain this weekend. It is the Villa de Cañada de Calatrava Rapid tournament. 24 of the Grandmasters are over 2600 and 7 over 2700.
Here are some of the top GMs:
1 GM Anand Viswanathan 2786 IND
2 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2757 AZE
3 GM Gelfand Boris 2733 ISR
4 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2729 UKR
5 GM Polgar Judit 2727 HUN
6 GM Grischuk Alexander 2717 RUS
7 GM Bacrot Etienne 2709 FRA
8 GM Shirov Alexei 2699 ESP
9 GM Sasikiran Krishnan 2690 IND
10 GM Milov Vadim 2676 SUI
11 GM Karpov Anatoly 2668 RUS
12 GM Krasenkow Michal 2661 POL
13 GM Sokolov Ivan 2655 NED
14 GM Miton Kamil 2653 POL
15 GM Fressinet Laurent 2644 FRA
16 GM Fridman Daniel 2635 LAT
17 GM Gagunashvili Merab 2625 GEO
18 GM Baklan Vladimir 2618 UKR
19 GM Sadvakasov Darmen 2618 KAZ
20 GM Pantsulaia Levan 2616 GEO
Here is the official website.
You should give their Rapid ratings and not their classical time control ELOs.
Regardless Anand has to be the favourite here.
can someone please tell me what time the games start (EST)?
From their website it seems to have begun today in Spain at these times: Friday,Saturday and Sunday:
10:00 AM, 11AM and Noon.
On Friday 5 PM a Fischer tournament (is it random chess?) and Saturday at 5 PM a Blitz chess if that is what Relampago is. Now if someone could translate that Spain time to EST! For example right now in California it is 8:30 PM Friday night 4/6 in Spain it is Saturday 5:30 AM. So you may be able to figure out east coast time from that I hope!
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full.html