Melody Amber 2010

The 19th Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament takes place in Nice from March 13 (first round) to March 25 (last round). The 12 participants according to their ELO are:

• Magnus Carlsen – Norway (2813)
• Vladimir Kramnik - Russia (2790)
• Levon Aronian – Armenia (2782)
• Alexander Grischuk – Russia (2756)
• Peter Svidler – Russia (2750)
• Boris Gelfand – Israel (2750)
• Vasily Ivanchuk - Ukraine (2748)
• Vugar Gashimov – Azerbaijan (2740)
• Ruslan Ponomariov – Ukraine (2737)
• Sergey Karjakin - Russia (2725)
• Leinier Dominguez – Cuba (2713)
• Jan Smeets – The Netherlands (2651)

Every day four sessions will be played - two blindfold and two rapid, starting at 13:30 GMT. Exceptions are the rest days, which are March 17 and 22, and the last round, which starts at 11:30 GMT. The rate of play is 25/10 for the rapid and 25/20 for the blindfold.

The ChessBomb team will broadcast this attractive chess event with the expert commentary of Rybka.