Schacksnack

On Friday a new super tournament will be held in Zurich. Six players of the leading world elite will participate.

GM Vladimir Kramnik, Russia

GM Hikaru Nakamura, U.S.

GM Viswanathan Anand, India

GM Fabiano Caruana, Italy

GM Levon Aronian, Armenia

GM Sergei Karjakin, Russia

An interesting side arrangement will be the Rapid Competition between the two famous chessplayers GM Viktor Kortchnoi and GM Wolfgang Uhlmann. They will celebrate their 84th and 80th birthday respectively in March 2015. The event will be held on February 15th and February 16th and will be preceded by a short overview about chess history by the president of the «Emanuel Lasker Gesellschaft», Paul Werner Wagner (Homepage Emanuel Lasker Gesellschaft).

There is more information about the main event Zürich Chess Challenge and its side arrengements on the excellent homepage.

Viswanathan Anand, India, eager for revenge after the debacle in the recent tournament in Baden-Baden. (Photo: Stefan64, Mainz 2008 - Wikimedia)