Report by GM Cebalo
The 53th edition of “Torneo di Capodanno di Reggio Emilia” is now open, by the organization staff leading by Silvano Ferraroni president of “Circolo Scacchi Ippogrifo” of Reggio Emilia, Roberto Mogranzini director and the responsible for the players Martha Fierro. Great chess celebrities are present with an elo average of almost 2700 which proves to be the highest rated Reggio Emilia of the history just possible to compare with the memorable 1991-92 edition with the presence of Karpov, Kasparov, Anand, only to mention three,which was one of the strongest tournament of all times.
Back to today: great emotion (great expectations) given us by Alexander Morozevich who was blocked by the snow on the Moscow’s airport and risk his participation. The super Grand Master has done all is possible to do to join, traveling all night by train to St. Petersburg and from there taking a flight to Milan where he arrived in the afternoon. The organization and the players agree to allow Morozevich not to play the first round today (the game will be play on 1st of January 2011 at 4 pm – rest day) special thanks to David Navara, Morozevich’s opponent, who also arrived yesterday very late after a long travel. Due to the high level of players there will be very interesting games from the first round, we should mention the match between living legend Vassily Ivanchuk, highest elo of tournament, and the reigning Italia champion and world known player Fabiano Caruana, the italian star will have white, we will see…
Arbiters: Chief Arbiter IA Cristina Rigo with NA Angelo Mancini and NA Antonio Sfera.
http://www.ippogrifoscacchi.it/tablaGeneral.asp?iTorneoIppogrifo=25
Great job Martha!