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Kings Tournament 2011 in Medias, RomaniaROMGAZ and the Chess Club Society "Elisabeta Polihroniade” of Bucharest are staging a double round robin tournament with six top GMs: the world's second highest ranked player, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, who at the age of 20 has an Elo rating of 2815. Ukrainian GM Vassily Ivanchuk, currently the world's number five, rated 2776; Sergey Karjakin, former child prodigy and youngest GM of all time, now playing for Russia, rated 2776; top US grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, clear winner of this year's Wijk aan Zee tournament; Teimour Radjabov, at 2744 one of Azerbaijan's top GMs, and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, the best Romanian player, currently rated 2659. The competition is taking place from June 11th to 22nd 2011 in Medias, Romania.
The Natural Gas Documentation and Information Centre where the event will
be staged
Hikaru Nakamura (right) with his permanent second Kris Littlejohn
Top seed and favourite Magnus Carlsen
Former child prodigy Sergey Karjakin
Romania's top GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
Teimour Radjabov with his mother (really!)
The Mayor of Medias Teodor Neamtu
Lucian Stancu, Vice General Director of Romgaz
FIDE representative Nigel Freeman, who held his greeting speech in Romanian!
Henrik Carlsen, father of the top seed, speaks for his son...
... who must then speak to the visitors himself
Speaking for his boss: Vassily Ivanchuk's second Šarūnas Šulskis of
Lithuania.
Ivanchk was on his way from the airport, after a delayed flight.
King's Tournament President Elisabeta Polihroniade speaks...
... and then introduces a full-fledged World Champion
Ognean Mihnea-Ionut, reigning World School Champion under seven
Kings' Tournament director Emil Danut Gabar
Magnus with his sister, 14-year-old Signe Carlsen
The chief arbiter Faik Gasanov
The players with Tournament President Elisabeta Polihroniade and RomGAZ
top brass
Florin Opriscan, Assistant of the General Director, Mihai Opriscan, PR director,
Eleonora Patrui, Chief Assistant of the General Director
After the ceremony the TV and radio journalists beleaguer one of the players
Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu and his wife Nicoleta
Links
The games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download a free Playchess client there and get immediate access. You can also use ChessBase 11 or any of our Fritz compatible chess programs. |
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