Foros Aerosvit 2008
Aerosvit - (not to be mistaken with Aerosmith 
) is the biggest airline in Ukraine and also happens to be the sponsor of an extremely strong chess tournament "Foros Aerosvit 2008" which will run from 7-20 June. The impressive line-up in Foros is:
| Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2765 |
| Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2746 |
| Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2740 |
| Shirov, Alexei | ESP | 2740 |
| Karjakin, Sergey | UKR | 2732 |
| Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 2711 |
| Alekseev, Evgeny | RUS | 2711 |
| Eljanov, Pavel | UKR | 2687 |
| Volokitin, Andrei | UKR | 2684 |
| Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 2684 |
| Van Wely, Loek | NED | 2676 |
| Onischuk, Alexander | USA | 2664 |
The event is a round-robin with a time control of 40 moves in 90 minutes followed by 30 minutes to finish the game, plus an increment of 30 seconds/move from the start of the game.
Last year's winner was Vassily Ivanchuk who will defend his title against a similar field to last year, but with the most notable newcomer being a certain Magnus Carlsen.
Who would you like to see win? Chucky, Magnus or someone else? Look out for reports at Chess.com.
