BOTW: 2015.08.22

3rd Sinquefield Cup
Sunday Aug 23 - September 3, 2015
Saint Louis Chess Club

In last year's six-player double RR, Fabiano Caruana won his first seven games en route to a three point victory. This year it is a 10-player single RR with an average rating of 2795, and where the top five are all rated over 2800:

The Players (# live world ranking)

#1 Magnus Carlsen, World Champion
#2 Viswanathan Anand, ex-World Champion
#3 Veselin Topalov, former World Champion
#4 Hikaru Nakamura
#5 Fabiano Caruana
#6 Anish Giri
#9 Wesley So, organizer's wildcard
#10 Alexander Grischuk
#11 Levon Aronian
#16 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Schedule:

• Games start at 1pm Central (2pm EST)
• Rest day: Friday Aug. 28
• Playoff, if necessary:  Sept 2 (1pm EST)
• Garry Kasparov joins the players for a day of fun chess: Thursday, Sept 3.
   

Live commentary by WGM J. Shahade and GMs Seirawan and Ashley.
http://grandchesstour.com/2015-sinquefield-cup-live 

Homepage
http://grandchesstour.com/2015-sinquefield-cup/2015-sinquefield-cup

2015 World U16 Olympiad

The U16 Team championship takes place in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Aug 19-29, 2015. 

Canada has one team entered:  

1. Zongyang Yu 2230 
2. Diwen Shi 2194 
3. Yinshi Li 2031 
4. Joey Zhong 1924 
5. Rachel Tao 1699

After four rounds, Hungary leads with 4/4, a 1/2 point ahead of Indai and Russia.
Canada is +2 =0 -2:

rd. 1: Canada 4-0 USA
rd.2: Belarus 2.5 - 1.5 Canada
rd.3 Canada 1.5-2.5 Singapore 2
rd.4 Mongolia E 0 - 4 Canada

rd. 5 Canada vs China 1 will be played Monday Aug 24.

Canadian Team Photos
https://www.facebook.com/Canadianwycc2014 

Canadian Team Standings
http://chess-results.info/tnr184452.aspx?lan=1&art=20&wi=821&snr=12 

Overall Standings
http://chess-results.info/tnr184452.aspx?lan=1 

Homepage
http://wyco2015.mongolchess.mn/index.php 

event facebook
https://www.facebook.com/u16chessolympiad2015 

Live DGT Games (from the top six matches)
http://205.147.98.60/dgt2/wyco/tfd.htm