[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: The next two big events: Biel and Mainz

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
The next two big events: Biel and Mainz
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1215480700.shtml


   We have a lull of about two weeks before the chess world heats up
   again. The first big event on the horizon is the [1]41st Biel
   International Chess Festival, which runs from July 19 through August
   1. The GM event is a six player double-round robin with the following
   players:
   Magnus Carlsen 2775
   Evgeny Alekseev 2708
   Lenier Dominguez 2708
   Etienne Bacrot 2691
   Alexander Onischuk 2670
   Yannick Pelletier 2569 (the Swiss participant)
   Partially overlapping this event is the [2]Chess Classic Mainz, which
   is a spectacular festival including very strong open (rapid) events in
   both standard chess and Chess960, along with closed events in those
   disciplines. This year, the fab four participating in the closed
   events are Viswanathan Anand, Alexander Morozevich, Judit Polgar
   and...Magnus Carlsen?! I'm not sure how that's supposed to work, given
   the overlap with Biel, but that's what it says on the web. (And the
   internet is never mistaken, right? Maybe every once in a while.)

References

   1. http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/cms/
   2. http://www.chesstigers.de/ccm8.php?lang=1