Amber Tournament Starts Today
The 18th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament starts today in Nice, France.
With a total prize fund of €216,000 and the strongest ever line-up for the event (see below), it promises to be well worth following! See the previous Chess.com news article here, and the official website here.
The draw for today's first round games is (local times):
| 14.30 |
Blind | Kramnik-Morozevich | Radjabov-Topalov | Karjakin-Wang Yue |
| 16.00 |
Blind | Carlsen-Kamsky | Anand-Leko | Aronian-Ivanchuk |
| 17.45 |
Rapid | Morozevich-Kramnik | Topalov-Radjabov | Wang Yue-Karjakin |
| 19.15 |
Rapid | Kamsky-Carlsen | Leko-Anand | Ivanchuk-Aronian |
The live games can be followed here.
| Veselin Topalov | BUL | 2796 |
| Viswanathan Anand | IND | 2791 |
| Vassily Ivanchuk | UKR | 2779 |
| Magnus Carlsen | NOR | 2776 |
| Alexander Morozevich |
RUS | 2771 |
| Teimour Radjabov |
AZE | 2761 |
| Vladimir Kramnik |
RUS | 2759 |
| Peter Leko |
HUN | 2751 |
| Levon Aronian |
ARM | 2750 |
| Wang Yue |
CHN | 2739 |
| Gata Kamsky |
USA | 2725 |
| Sergey Karjakin |
UKR | 2706 |
