2016-02-13

games archives for the Zurich chess challenge

The Zurich chess challenge takes place from Fri 12th to Mon 15th February 2016. The main event is a six players round robin with a time control of forty minutes per game with ten seconds increments; scores from a blitz tournament on the final day will also count to the standings; there is also a blitz event on the first day to establish the draw. Invited players are: GM Viswanathan Anand, GM Levon Aronian, GM Anish Giri, GM Vladimir Kramnik, GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Alexei Shirov. In addition, an exhibition match is scheduled between GM Boris Gelfand and GM Alexander Morozevich and an handicap match between GM Boris Gelfand and Oleg Skvortsov.

The pgn4web embedchessboard plugin for joomla is used to display games, both in a dedicated games archive page and within daily news reports (please note the miniature win of Anand against Aronian in the first round).