Norway Chess Tournament 2016

The Norwegian organizers decided to get out of the Grand Prix Tour this year, but this didn't keep them from arranging a gathering of champions in Stavanger. The line-up is impressive and, despite ther last-minute withdrawal of Sergey Karjakin - the Challenger - the tournament is strong and promises ten days of amazing chess. The super-tournament starts April the 19th at 10AM EDT - 16:00 CET.

Here is the list with the participants:

Player	Country	Rating
Magnus Carlsen	Norway	2851
Vladimir Kramnik	Russia	2801
Anish Giri	Netherlands	2790
Levon Aronian	Armenia	2784
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	France	2788
Veselin Topalov	Bulgaria	2754
Pavel Eljanov	Ukraine	2765
Chao Li	China	2792
Pentala Harikrishna	India	2763
Nils Grandelius	Sweden	2649

ICC will have full coverage of the Norway Chess, with live commentary, GOTD service and the usual trivias and contests.

Here is the line-up of the ICC's dream team of commentators:

Date	Day/Time (EDT)	Round	Host	Analyst
04/19	Tuesday/10AM	1	GM Ron W Henley	GM Alex Yermolinsky
04/20	Wednesday/10AM	2	IM John Watson	GM Ronen Har-Zvi
04/21	Thursday/10AM	3	IM Christof Sielecki	GM Lars Bo Hansen
04/22	Friday/10AM	4	GM Pablo Zarnicki	GM Jon Speelman
04/24	Sunday/10AM	5	GM Daniel King	GM John Fedorowicz
04/25	Monday/10AM	6	IM Vojislav Milanovic	GM Max Dlugy
04/27	Wednesday/10AM	7	IM John Watson	GM Larry Christiansen
04/27	Thursday/10AM	8	IM Christof Sielecki	GM Joel Benjamin
04/28	Friday/10AM	9	Mark Crowther	GM Alex Yermolinsky