M-Tel tournament starts today

Submitted by SonofPearl on Wed, 05/07/2008 at 2:24pm.

The M-Tel Masters tournament will take place between the 8th and the 18th May in Sofia, Bulgaria. The competitors in this ultra-strong double round-robin tournament are:

Veselin Topalov	Bulgaria	ELO 2767
Vassily Ivanchuk	Ukraine	ELO 2740
Levon Aronian	Armenia	ELO 2763
Teimour Radjabov	Azerbaijan	ELO 2751
Ivan Cheparinov	Bulgaria	ELO 2695
Bu Xiangzhi	China	ELO 2708

This event forms part of the 'Grand Slam' circuit which also includes the tournaments at Wijk Aan Zee, Moreila/Linares and Mexico City. The four winners of these tournaments will play against one another in a final tournament in Bilbao in September.

Tune into Chess.com for updates of this exciting tournament!

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by Smartattack - 4 days ago
Portugal

Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 407

And King Topalov scores a win, nice start by his second Cheparinov.In Bulgaria rule the bulgarians!

by lubo - 4 days ago
Sofia Bulgaria

Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 211

Last year I was happy to visit the tournament..

Now, I'm on a new job. My new boss woudn't let me visit the tournament at work time. :(

I hope we'll see more exciting games!

by shaxmat64 - 5 days ago
Stepanakert Armenia

Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 74

Levon Aronian and Wiswanathan Anand are already through to the final in Bilbao, being the winners of Wijk aan Zee and Moreila/Linares respectively. The funny thing is, I suspect Aronian will win M-Tel Masters and Anand will smash the Mexican tournament resulting in only two deserved finalists :)