The largest and most massive chess event of the year is on the horizon – the European Club Cup 2013, with most of the 2700 club participating and over 100 GMs and 300(!) titled players. It will be played in the second half of the month in Rhodes, Greece, and it’s gravity has squeezed all other events in the beginning of October.
As a result we have a massive week coming, with many tournaments and top games. All action starts this Monday on Chessdom, here is a brief schedule of events
Russian Superfinal 13:00 CET
This event, already in the third round has Kramnik, Svidler, Karjakin, Kosintseva and multiple top Russian players Watch men live / Watch women live
Chigorin Memorial 14:00 CET
A massive events with 100+ titled players including Eljanov, Akopian, Areshchenko, Alekseev, Matlakov, Zhigalko, Zvjaginsev, Khismatullin, Khairullin, Demchenko, Andriasian, Filippov, Solak, Hovhannisyan, Stocek, Al-Sayed, Mammadov, etc. Follow live with analysis
Kings Tournament 14:30 CET
Two events of the Grand Slam start today, coinciding as dates. King’s tournament has managed to attract Fabiano Caruana (2796), Ruslan Ponomariov (2756), Wang Hao (2747), Teimour Radjabov (2733) and GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (2665) Live games daily here
Bilbao Final Masters 17:00 CET
Just a few hours after King’s Tournament, starts the Bilbao Final Masters. Levon Aronian, Vachier-Lagrave, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, and Michael Adams. Live games with analysis here
More action this week
This is just the start of this week’s action. As addition we have the daily top computer championship TCEC, where Houdini is fighting to qualify for next stage (note: Stockfish, Komodo lead) and on Wednesday is starting the massive Indonesia Open 2013 that has attracted Grandmasters from over 30 countries including Nigel Short, Avetik Grigoryan, Csaba Balogh, Antoaneta Stefanova, Surya Sekhar Ganguly, Sandipan Chanda, Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, Ivan Sokolov, John Paul Gomez, Eugenio Torres, Ivan Ivanisevic, Eduardo Iturrizaga, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, GN Gopal, Elisabeth Paehtz, Sophie Milliet, Alexey Dreev, maria manakova, etc. Live games on the official website
