18th Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament
March 14-26, 2009 Nice, France
The 18th Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament, organized by the Association Max Euwe in Monaco, takes place from March 14 (first round) to March 26 (last round) at the Palais de la Mediterranée, splendidly located on the famous Promenade des Anglais in Nice. The total prize-fund is € 216,000.
This year’s field is stronger than ever with all the world’s best players taking part.
The twelve participants are (in alphabetical order):
World Champion Viswanathan Anand (India), Levon Aronian (Armenia), Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Gata Kamsky (United States), Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Peter Leko (Hungary), Alexander Morozevich (Russia), Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) and Wang Yue (China).
Every day four sessions will be played, two blindfold sessions and two rapid sessions. The first session starts at 14.30 hrs. The fourth session finishes around 20.00 hrs. (Note: the final round on March 26 starts at 12.30 hrs. March 18 and 23 are rest days.)
Official website: http://www.amberchess2009.com/
Good to see Kamsky in big tournaments.
that’s kinda mean, everyone’s name is in bold except Wang Yue’s.
Remember: Last year Aronian was the very clear winner!
okay
go to http://www.top10chess.com to see a nice picture of Nice.
I’d say that GMs Nakamura, Bacrot and Jakovenko would all deserve to play, as it would vary a little bit from the CORUS/LINARES line-up.
I believe that Ivanchuk,Wang,Aronian,Dominguez,Radjabov and Carlsen played the three tournaments Corus/Linares/Amber back to back. Maybe the three players mentioned deserve to play, as one might argue they are more spectacular than Leko and Wang.
This being said, it is exciting and rare to see Anand,Topalov,Kramnik,Morozevich,Ivanchuk in one tournament.