[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Starting Tomorrow: The 4th Pivdenny Bank Chess Club

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
Starting Tomorrow: The 4th Pivdenny Bank Chess Club
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1212084366.shtml


   Here's the info, c/o GM Mikhail Golubev, one of the participants:
   BASIC DETAILS
   The 4th Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup begins on 30 May 2008 in Odessa,
   Ukraine, in the National Academy of Law
   (http://onua.edu.ua/odessa/eng/main.htm). It will be a double round
   robin, rapid chess tournament with 8 participating grandmasters: Boris
   Gelfand (2723, ISR) Ruslan Ponomariov (2719, UKR) Anatoly Karpov
   (2655, RUS) Pavel Tregubov (2629, RUS) Viktor Korchnoi (2598, SUI)
   Yuri Drozdovskij (2581, UKR) Valery Beim (2523, AUT) Mikhail Golubev
   (2474, UKR).
   SCHEDULE
   The time control (for each player) will be 10 minutes for the game
   plus a 5-second increment after every move. On 30 May, five first
   rounds will be played; on 31 May there will be another five rounds,
   and four final rounds will be played on 1 June. On each of these three
   days, there will be rounds at 13:00 (local time, GMT+2), 14:00, 15:00,
   etc.
   WEB
   The official website of the event is http://worldcup.pivdenny.com - we
   hope to publish the basic information in English (results & standings)
   there, though the siteâs (main) language is Russian. The live
   transmission of games will be organised by the Shachcom company
   (http://www.ruschess.com).
   PREVIOUS WINNERS
   The winners of the three previous tournaments were:
   2005 Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine)
   2006 Joel Lautier (France)
   2007 Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine)
   ORGANISERS
   The main organiser of the tournament is Bank Pivdenny
   (http://en.bank.com.ua), which is the largest bank in the southern
   part of Ukraine.
   Pivdenny also organised the 2007 and 2008 ACP World Rapid Chess Cups,
   which were won by Peter Leko (Hungary) and Teimour Radjabov
   (Azerbaijan), respectively.