18th Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament

The 18th Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament takes place from March 14 (first round) to March 26 (last round) at the Palais de la Mediterranée, splendidly located on the famous Promenade des Anglais, number 13-15, in Nice.

The games are freely accessible to the public.

The tournament is organized by the Association Max Euwe in Monaco.

The total prize-fund is € 216,000.

This year’s field is stronger than ever with all the world’s best players taking part.

The twelve participants are (in alphabetical order):

World Champion Viswanathan Anand (India)
Levon Aronian (Armenia)
Magnus Carlsen (Norway)
Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine)
Gata Kamsky (United States)
Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine)
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia)
Peter Leko (Hungary)
Alexander Morozevich (Russia)
Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan)
Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria)
Wang Yue (China)

The rate of play is 25 minutes per game per player. With every move made in the blindfold games 20 seconds is added to the clock, with every move made in the rapid games 10 seconds is added.

Every day four sessions will be played, two blindfold sessions and two rapid sessions. The first session starts at 14.30 hrs. The fourth session finishes around 20.00 hrs. (Note: the final round on March 26 starts at 12.30 hrs. March 18 and 23 are rest days.)

For more information please contact
Info@amberchess2009.com