Tournament Prediction Game 2017 (PPP) 🡺 "Tata Steel Chess 2018"

https://www.chess.com/news/view/fide-ethics-2-year-ban-for-kasparov--leong-8492

Mr Kasparov and Mr Leong are both banned for a period of two (2) years from holding any office or position within FIDE, including its member federations, continental associations or any other affiliated international organisations, as well as participating in any FIDE meeting as delegate, proxy-holder or other representative of a FIDE member.

This ban will be effective from the period 21 October 2015 until 20 October 2017.

So he is available to play in FIDE events. Wow, this is going to be great! The scenes if he wins...

Will it affect his rapid and blitz rating (2812)?

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/garry-kasparov-comes-out-of-retirement-for-saint-louis-rapid-and-blitz-event

Deadline in 14 hours!

He's unrated in rapid and blitz (2812 was his classical rating when he retired), but he should end up with a rating in rapid and blitz in September, and will have one for a year (interesting, that could qualify him for the Rapid and Blitz world championships!).

EDIT: FIDE first published rapid and blitz ratings in 2012, so there's no chance he could have got a rating.

Hey, I just realized something... in the Grand Prix Aronian has a realistic chance to become the new World #1 (and Mamedyarov has an outside chance). It would take a very good performance by Aronian, or a near-perfect performance by Mamedyarov, but the former at least is realistically possible.

Last time posting this.

@macer75, it'd be kinda hard for Mamedyarov (8/9 maybe?), but yes, Aronian might do it with a reaaally good tournament, 7/9. Just estimating the numbers tho.

Will this Grand Prix be broadcasted live somewhere?

worldchess.com sponsored by Agon.

So you can imagine, money money money.

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ONE HOUR LEFT!

https://goo.gl/forms/Jrfbyt6aXpWhKjSI3

8th Hainan Danzhou Super Grandmaster Chess Tournament is held in China from July 8 to 19. The 11-day event will be a 10-player round-robin (45 games), featuring Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi, Wei Yi, Wang Hao and Lu Shanglei from China, and Le Quang Liem, Malakhov, Ponomariov, Ivanchuk and Naiditsch from abroad.

Done

https://worldchess.com/gp2017/

https://worldchess.com/gp2017/#broadcast

links for the Geneva Grand Prix 2017 official site

Danzhou Grandmaster 2017

• 45 games of classical chess
• Top 3 finishers
• Deadline for predictions: July 9, 2017 at 15:00 LOC (CEST+6)

https://goo.gl/forms/VODvQA9nlOXxRVZ52

You said that we can change our minds, right?

This is my point no. 20015 btw - wooooot 

135 wins

You can! Just write anotherone and I will delete your 1st one :)

If I don't verify it here (with a new post) don't change anything!

Thank you! 8-)

Yes, good point!