Added on 5/4/2013
With an average rating of 2776, the first Norway Chess Tournament might be the strongest ever.
May the 8th is the one day all the chess fans are waiting for. One of the strongest chess tournament ever is going to draw the fans' attention from May the 8th to May the 18th. The line-up is simply stunning, with all the 2750+ guys. At the last minute, Vladimir Kramnik had to decline the invitation, but the uber-strong Peter Svidler stepped in, completing a list of participatns that until now existed only in any chess lover's dreams. ICC will cover this amazing event with Live Radio Broadcast, Game Of the Day Service and the traditional TRIVIA contests, whith main prize being a 1-year subscription to the best chess magazine out there: New in Chess! Games start at 9am EDT - 15:00 CET. Last Round 6am EDT - 12:00 CET. FINAL STANDINGS Game Of the Day1 May 08 GM Varuzhan Akobian SCORPON83 2 May 09 GM David Smerdon smurfo 3 May 10 GM Jonathan Speelman Speelman 4 May 12 GM David Smerdon smurfo 5 May 13 GM Alex Yermolinsky Sweere 6 May 14 GM Lars Bo Hansen DonCorleone 7 May 15 GM Ronen Har-Zvi Indiana-Jones 8 May 17 GM Joel Benjamin MrHat 9 May 18 GM Alex Yermolinsky Sweere Participants
GM Magnus Carlsen 2872 GM Levon Aronian 2809 GM Teimour Radjabov 2793 GM Sergey Karjakin 2786 GM Viswanathan Anand 2783 GM Veselin Topalov 2771 GM Hikaru Nakamura 2767 GM Peter Svidler 2747 GM Hao Wang 2743 GM Jon Ludvig Hammer 2629
Radio Broadcast Schedule
1 Daniel King Varuzhan Akobian 2 Boris Alterman David Smerdon 3 Ronen Har-Zvi Jonathan Speelman 4 Daniel King David Smerdon 5 Ronen Har-Zvi Varuzhan Akobian 6 Ben Finegold Lars Bo Hansen 7 Mark Crowther Alex Yermolinsky 8 Joel Benjamin Miguel Illescas 9 Alex Yermolinsky Jan Smeets
TRIVIA winners 1 Pagliacci Leijona Leijona 2 joesixpack Leijona gomeschess 3 Abel chesschallenged HighLama 4 agent-n053 Deadcatbouncer chess69 5 tknight16 Abel dimokles 6 Abel Abel Purplehaze 7 izit Deadcatbouncer rode-loper 8 Activekids SunSpots Banger 9 sisu Abel NeiliAm