The 5th edition of the Zurich Chess Challenge hosts a promotional two-game match between Boris Gelfand (Vice World Champion 2012) and Alexander Morozevich (Runner-up of the SG Zurich Jubilee-Open 2009) on 13th February 2016, at the Hotel Savoy Baur en Ville in Zurich, Switzerland.
The oldest chess club in the world and its honorable member Oleg Skvortsov suggest an innovation for the future of classical chess with a new time control of 40 minutes per game with additional 10 seconds for each move.
The first game will start at 15:00 CET, while the beginning of the second one will be at 18:00 CET.
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Participants: Viswanathan Anand (India), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Hikaru Nakamura (USA), Levon Aronian (Armenia), Anish Giri (Netherlands), Alexei Shirov (Latvia).
