Mtel Masters 2009 live!
the opening ceremony and games on Chessdom.com
Mtel Masters 2009 will have extensive live coverage on Chessdom.com. It will start at 11:00 CET with the opening ceremony of the tournament. It will include a press conference, interviews with the participants, and drawing of pairings with the special participation of Carmen Kass.
After a short break, we will continue our live coverage from Sofia with the promotional match Veselin Topalov – Vasilis Kontos (the winner in the last year’s game “Play like Topalov”) at 18:00 CET. Topalov will play blindfold against Kontos, just like against Alex Brunetti in 2007 and Jason Juett in 2008.
Round 1 is on the 13th of May, all three games will be covered live on Chessdom, with GM Christian Bauer, GM Vladimir Dimitrov, and IM Miodrag Perunovic commenting.
This year’s Mtel Masters is category XXI with the participation of Carlsen, Topalov, Ivanchuk, Wang Yue, Dominguez, and Shirov.
Round 1 pairings:
Topalov – Carlsen
Ivanchuk – Shirov
Dominguez – Wang Yue
Go Magnus!
It is:
Carlsen – Topalov !
Go where?:))