Bilbao Masters & European Club Cup |
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| Saturday, 13 September 2014 | ||||
 Photo from the official site  Bilbao, Spain is hosting both the Bilbao Masters super tournament and the European Club Cup from September 14 to 20. The Bilbao Masters Final is the last tournament for Viswanthan Anand before facing Magnus Carlsen in a World Chess Championship match in November in Sochi, Russia. Double round robin, six players: Levon Aronian (2804), #2 in the world Viswanathan Anand (2785), #5 Ruslan Ponomariov (2717), #32 Francisco Vallejo Pons (2712), #38 52 men's and 9 women's teams will be taking part in the European Club Cup. The format is a 7-round swiss. Men's teams have 6 players + 2 reserve ones; women's teams have a 4+1 line-up. Let's take a look at all the 2700+ participants: Fabiano Caruana (2801), #3, Obiettivo Risarcimento Alexander Grischuk (2789), #4, Malakhite Veselin Topalov (2784), #6, SOCAR Hikaru Nakamura (2782), #7, Obiettivo Risarcimento Sergey Karjakin (2777), #8, Malakhite Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2768), #9, Obiettivo Risarcimento Anish Giri (2758), #11, SOCAR Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2756), #12, SOCAR Leinier Dominguez Perez (2755), #13, SPB Michael Adams (2752), #16, SOCAR Nikita Vitiugov (2742), #19, SPB Radoslaw Wojtaszek (2736), #20, G Team Novy Bor Peter Leko (2734), #21, Malakhite Alexander Morozevich (2731), #23, SHSM Wang Hao (2730), #24, SOCAR Etienne Bacrot (2729), #25, Obiettivo Risarcimento Pentala Harikrishna (2725), #28, G Team Novy Bor David Navara (2722), #30, G Team Novy Bor Peter Svidler (2732), #32, SPB Teimour Radjabov (2717), #33, SOCAR Arkadij Naiditsch (2715), #34, Gros Xake Taldea Richard Rapport (2713), #35, Haladas VSE Laurent Fressinet (2712), #37, Obiettivo Risarcimento Ian Nepomniachtchi (2710), #40, SHSM Alexei Shirov (2701), #45, Malakhite  Natalia Pogonina will be playing for team Ugra, the reigning Russian Women's Team Champion The women's section, 2450+ players: Hou Yifan (2663), #2 on the women's rankings, CEMC Nana Dzagnidze (2566), #4, Nona Anna Muzychuk (2551), #6, CEMC Alexandra Kosteniuk (2543), #7, SHSM Valentina Gunina (2540), #8, SHSM Kateryna Lagno (2540), #9, CEMC Pia Cramling (2516), #14, CEMC Bela Khotenashvili (2507), #16, Nona Natalia Pogonina (2482), #22, Ugra Anna Ushenina (2481), #23, Ugra Olga Girya (2476), #26, SHSM Alisa Galliamova (2472), #29, Kazan Anna Zatonskih (2469), #31, Kazan Elizabeth Paehtz (2467), #32, SC Bad Königshofen Salome Melia (2464), #34, Nona Lilit Mkrtchian (2457), #38, SC Bad Königshofen
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