Top 20 seeds No. Name FED Rtg 1 GM Ding Liren CHN 2695 2 GM Yu Yangyi CHN 2629 3 GM Zherebukh Yaroslav UKR 2629 4 GM Rapport Richard HUN 2605 5 GM Shimanov Aleksandr RUS 2596 6 GM...
Public trial to begin July 28 in Athens
Chess Grandmaster Gets Public Trial The World Chess Federation (French abbreviation FIDE) announced yesterday that its first-ever public hearing will be held on July 28 in Athens to consider the scandalous accusations made by Bulgarian grandmaster Veselin Topalov and...