World Champions Group of the Selfoss Chess Festival

Tuesday, November 19th marked the start of the 1st round of the World Champions Tournament at the Selfoss Chess Festival in Iceland. The tournament has a unique lineup where everybody in this 10 player round-robin is a former World Champion in their age category! Even the ceremonial first move was made by a former World Champion!

The players are:

I will be streaming commentary from this tournament on my Twitch channel: twitch.tv/zibbit64 starting from round 3 on Thursday as well as looking at the Open tournament that will be played alongside the World Champions group.

Here is my roundup video for round 1:

All info and reports can be found on the tournament homepage: 

https://sson.is/selfoss-chess-festival/

Game of the Round: