According to our friends at chessdom.com, Kamsky has arrived in Baku for the Grand Prix.
The Chess Grand Prix will take place from April 20 to May 6 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Here are the list of the players (by April 2008 rating order) in the Baku Grand Prix:
Magnus Carlsen (NOR 2765)
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE 2752)
Teimour Radjabov (AZE 2751)
Peter Svidler (RUS 2746)
Sergey Karjakin (UKR 2732)
Michael Adams (ENG 2729)
Gata Kamsky (USA 2726)
Alexander Grischuk (RUS 2716)
Etienne Bacrot (FRA 2705)
Ivan Cheparinov (BUL 2695)
Wang Yue (CHN 2689)
Ernesto Inarkiev (RUS 2684)
Vugar Gashimov (AZE 2679)
David Navara (CZE 2672)
President nominee: Peter Svidler, Ivan Cheparinov, Etienne Bacrot, and Wang Yue
Host city nominee: Vugar Gashimov
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
What’s really new is that Magnus is coming in here as the ratings favorite. Wow…
What a bunch of circa 2700 patzers if ever I saw a list of…
🙂
I’m sure the Topalovians will chime in any minute now…
Go Gata!
Go Gata! Go Gata! Go Gata! Go!
… gotta’ Go.
Brad Hoehne
The field is almost as strong as Linares-Morelia or Wijk aan Zee!
May the best player win!
Kamsky can handle them all! He’ll prove he will be the WCC!!!!
America is proud of you GM Kamsky!!
Go get’em!!!
“Seneca”
This is a very strong field. It’s actually good that the top few aren’t playing… it has given space for a very interesting tournament, an hopefuly a very fighting one.
I don’t care if Kamsky wins or not… he’s probably taking this as part of his preparation anyways.. We’ll see the full version Kamsky when he plays Toppy.
Anybody knows about the official site for this tournament?
All I could find was
http://grandprix.fide.com
but all it says is that it will be updated soon. How soon? It’s 4 days before the start of the tournament!
Magnus will destroy them all.
Yes, Magnus my true heir will destroy them all and then the both of us will dance the sacred dance that will destroy the world!
Shiva the Destroyer
Ok, the Grand Prix site is now up and running.
http://grandprix.fide.com
Also the site for the first tournament in Baku is up
http://baku2008.fide.com/