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The opening ceremony on 12 April in the Hotel Savoy Baur en Ville will welcome the 12th World Chess Champion Anatoli Karpov, the 1993 Vice World Champion Jan Timman, the Russian/Dutch Grandmaster Gennadi Sosonko. The action of Zurich Chess Challenge 2017 kicks off on April 12th with a blitz tournament of the 8 participants to decide the pairings for the main event. You can follow the Blitz on ChessBomb. The rounds are every 15 minutes.
More than 12 grandmasters with an ELO rating of 2600 and above have registered for the Kortchnoi Open tourbament that will be played parallel to the Grandmaster Tournament. Among them are well-known world class players like Alexei Shirov, Alexander Motylev, Eltaj Safarli, Eduardo Iturrizaga, Aleksandr Rakhmanov and Loek van Wely.
The Exhibition Game - Oleg Skvortsov - V. Anand will be on 12 April, 2017(Wednesday) on 15:00* CET (UTC/GMT +2)
Rate of play: Skvortsov - 40 min + 20 sec/move; Anand - 20 min + 20 sec/move
Super GM Tournament
8 of the top world players compete in new classical and blitz: Anand, Nakamura, Kramnik, Svidler, Nepomniachtchi, Gelfand, Oparin, Pelletier
14 Rounds - 8 Player - Double Round Robin (New Classical & Blitz)
New Classical rate of play: 45 minutes all moves + ; 30 seconds increment
Players earn 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw in the new classical tournament and 1 point for a win and a ½ point for a draw in the blitz tournament.
Players earn 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw in the new classical tournament and 1 point for a win and a ½ point for a draw in the blitz tournament.
Blitz rate of play:: 10 minutes all moves + ; 5 seconds increment
Schedule : CET (UTC/GMT +2)
17.04, 2017 - Round 08 (Blitz) - 11:00
17.04, 2017 - Round 09 (Blitz) - 11:40
17.04, 2017 - Round 10 (Blitz) - 12:20
17.04, 2017 - Round 11 (Blitz) - 13:00
17.04, 2017 - Round 12 (Blitz) - 13:40
17.04, 2017 - Round 13 (Blitz) - 14:20
17.04, 2017 - Round 14 (Blitz) - 15:00
17.04, 2017 - Round 08 (Blitz) - 11:00
17.04, 2017 - Round 09 (Blitz) - 11:40
17.04, 2017 - Round 10 (Blitz) - 12:20
17.04, 2017 - Round 11 (Blitz) - 13:00
17.04, 2017 - Round 12 (Blitz) - 13:40
17.04, 2017 - Round 13 (Blitz) - 14:20
17.04, 2017 - Round 14 (Blitz) - 15:00
13.04, 2017 - Round 01 (New Classical) - 17:00
14.04, 2017 - Round 02 (New Classical) - 12:30
14.04, 2017 - Round 03 (New Classical) - 17:00
15.04, 2017 - Round 04 (New Classical) - 12:30
15.04, 2017 - Round 05 (New Classical) - 17:00
16.04, 2017 - Round 06 (New Classical) - 12:30
16.04, 2017 - Round 07 (New Classical) - 17:00
