The incredible FIDE Candidates Tournament is just over, but there is no rest for us chess fans. April the 21st some of the strongest players in the world will meet again in Paris, France, for the first part of the Alekhine Memorial.
World Champion Vishy Anand, former WC Vladimir Kramnik, the uber-strong Armenian Levon Aronian, Russian Peter Svidler, who was able to finish third only half a point behind Carlsen and Kramnik at the FIDe Candidates - together with Aronian, English GM Michael Adams, Israeli GM Boris Gelfand, French Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Laurent Fressinet, Russian strong GM Nikita Vitiugov and Ding Liren, from China, will play this strong super-tournament. It is a Round Robin with 10 players, thus 9 rounds. The first 5 rounds will be played in Paris, France, from April 21st to the 25th. The remaining 4 rounds in S. Petersburg, Russia, from Aprile the 28th to May the 1st.
ICC covers this event with Radio LIVE Broadcast, online TRIVIA and the Game Of the Day videos. Our Team of commentators will get on the air one hour after start time. Games start at 08:00am ICC time in Paris and at 6am ICC Time in S. Petersburg. We will get on the air at 9am for the first part of the tournament and at 7am for the second part. LAST ROUND starts at 5am ICC time; we will be on the air at 6am.
Congratulations to GM Levon Aronian!
Round | Date | Host | Play |
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1 | Apr. 21 |
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2 | Apr. 22 |
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3 | Apr. 23 |
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4 | Apr. 24 |
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5 | Apr. 25 |
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6 | Apr. 28 |
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7 | Apr. 29 |
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8 | Apr. 30 |
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9 | May 01 |
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Name | Rating | Federation | |
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1 | Viswanathan Anand | 2783 | India |
2 | Levon Aronian | 2809 | Armenia |
3 | Vladimir Kramnik | 2801 | Russia |
4 | Peter Svidler | 2747 | Russia |
5 | Boris Gelfand | 2739 | Israel |
6 | Michael Adams | 2727 | England |
7 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2722 | France |
8 | Nikita Vitiugov | 2712 | Russia |
9 | Ding Liren | 2707 | China |
10 | Laurent Fressinet | 2706 | France |
Rd | date | Host | Analyst |
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1 | April 21, 9am | Alex Yermolinsky | Lars Bo Hansen |
2 | April 22, 9am | Larry Christiansen | Joel Benjamin |
3 | April 23, 9am | Amador Rodriguez | Miguel Illescas |
4 | April 24, 9am | Ronen Har-Zvi | John Fedorowicz |
5 | April 25, 9am | Gawain Jones | Varuzhan Akobian |
6 | April 28, 7am | Mark Crowther | Jonathan Speelman |
7 | April 29, 7am | Ben Finegold | David Smerdon |
8 | April 30, 7am | Boris Alterman | Ronen Har-Zvi |
9 | May 1, 6am | Lars Bo Hansen | Varuzhan Akobian |
Round | 1 month | 3 month | GOTD New in Chess |
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1 | Hyrde | CrazyIvan | Holgate |
2 | swindle | powerpawn | aptchess |
3 | Activekids | Mr-G | Guryon |
4 | Abel | HungarianChess | arizona |
5 | TOROARTS | powerpawn | Woodstorm57 |
6 | marckun | Activekids | Durashmar |
7 | TremblingMouse | Faras | allBlax |
8 | DeepGeek | moschi | Tom |
9 | Mataleo | caglar | FLEXappeal |
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