The Zurich Chess Challenge 2015 is scheduled to take place from 13th to 19th February, 2015, at the Hotel Savoy Baur en Ville, in Zurich, Switzerland.
The super-tournament is a 5-round event with the classic tempo of play 120′/ 40 + 60′/ 20 + 15′ + 30″.
Live games / Live games with standings / Replay the games from last year’s edition of Zurich Chess
Participants:
– Fabiano Caruana (2820), 23 y.o., Italy
– Levon Aronian (2797), 33 y.o. Armenia
– Viswanathan Anand (2797), 46 y.o., India
– Vladimir Kramnik (2783), 40 y.o., Russia
– Hikaru Nakamura (2776), 28 y.o., USA
– Sergey Karjakin (2760), 25 y.o., Russia
A Blitz Tournament will determine the colors distribution on the first day of the tournament (Friday, February 13, 2015. )
According the the rules, the winner of a classical game earns 2 points for the Overall Standings, in case of a draw each player earns 1 point and the loser 0 points.
In the rapid games however, the winner earns 1 point, by a draw each player half a point and the loser 0 point.
You can find more about the legendary Candidates’ Tournament, won by Vassily Smyslov, in the classic book “Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953″ by David Bronstein, while Smyslov’s superiority is seen in the final standings below:
Nakamura will crush everyone. So isn’t good enough to be invited.
Yes. Of course.
Where is Wesley? This the group he needs to face to prove his strength. Oh his manager Sugar Mama is keeping him out cause she doesn’t want him to be eaten alive by the hungry wolves. He will be a begging prey here.
your brain must be in your a$$. where’s magnus?? he must be scared to face these puppies?!!. where’s grischuk and topalov or giri?!!!
Nakamura and So are both over rated. But Naka is much much better than So.
The invitations to this tournament were sent out a long time ago, I think. Mr. So wasn’t such a hot item then, so he wasn’t invited.
These So haters are ridiculous. They keep on harping about Nakamura who is not even pure American. Even after So jumped the highest in the world rankings and left behind Nakamura who is now several places behind. So performed very well in Tata Steel and if not for the defeat by Giri, would have won the tournament. These So bashers have nothing better to say. Just keep your trap shut, guys.
Yes. For sure.
Wesley is a Chinese and not american.
he is filipino