11 June 2018
First Stage of Grand Chess Tour Starts in Leuven
Russia is represented by Sergey Karjakin and Alexander Grischuk.
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The Your Next Move, the first stage of the Grand Chess Tour, will be held in the historic Town Hall of Leuven, Belgium, from 12-16 June.
The line-up: Fabiano Caruana (standard rating - 2816, USA), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2808, Azerbaijan), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2789, France), Anish Giri (2782, Netherlands), Sergey Karjakin (2782, Russia), Wesley (2778, USA), Hikaru Nakamura (2769, USA), Alexander Grischuk (2766, Russia), Levon Aronian (2764, Armenia), and Viswanathan Anand (2759, India).
9 rounds of rapid chess (25 minutes with a 10-second delay) are played on the first 3 days (June 12th-14th), with wins worth 2 points. 18 rounds of blitz (5 minutes with a 3-second delay) follow on the final 2 days (June 15th-16th), with wins worth 1 point.
The games start at 3 p.m. (Moscow time).
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