BOTW: 2016.07.11
Eight of the world's top-eleven are are in action this week in Dortmund and Bilbao.
44th Sparkassen Chess-Meeting
(aka Dortmund)
July 9 - 17, 2016
An 8-player RR featuring:
#2 Vladimir Kramnik, 10-time Dormund Champion
#3 Fabiano Caruana, 2x defending champ
#4 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
#36 Leinier Dominguez
#40 Ruslan Ponomariov
#50 Evgeniy Najer
#64 Dieter Liviu-Nisipeanu
#107 Rainer Buhmann, German #3
After two rounds, MVL and Ponomariov lead with 1.5. Photo shows Caruana - MVL, a Najdorf won by the Frenchman in round 1 .
Games start at 3pm local time (9am EST), except round 7, which starts two hours earlier.
Live games with GM commentary on Chess24
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/dortmund-sparkassen-chess-meeting-2016#live
Homepage (Deutch Neur)G
http://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de/2016/
Bilbao Chess Masters
July 13 - 23, 2016
A six-player double round robin in Bilbao featuring five of the world's top 11 players.
Many people are focusing on it as a mini-preview of the November World Championship match between title holder Magnus Carlsen and Challenger Sergei Karjakin. But given that neither player will likely show their opening prep for that match -- Karjakin has already said he won't play his main lines -- it might be more interesting as a preview of more distant World Championship matches, since the 25-year-old Champion is (for the first time?) older than half the field.
FIDE Ranking Player
#1 Magnus Carlsen
#6 Hikaru Nakamura
#7 Anish Giri
#9 Sergey Karjakin
#11 Wesley So
#44 Wei Yi
Games start at 4pm local time (10am EST), except round 10, which starts an hour earlier.