The Young Chronicle: For Grade 3 May 9th, 2015 | Page 5

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Checkmate!
In a bid to give Chess a boost as a game and make it a popular
sport, former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov has roped in
nine of the top grandmasters to a three-tournament circuit called the
Grand Chess Tour.
This aims at providing more opportunities for the world’s best chess
players to compete on a grand stage.
The Grand Chess Tour is an affiliation between the Chess Club and
Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (Sinquefield Cup), Tower AS (Norway
Chess) and Chess Promotions Ltd. (London Chess Classic. The partnership aims to raise worldwide awareness for each prestigious tournament, as well as for the tour.
The inaugural 2015 Tour will kick off in June as a three-event cycle,
beginning with Norway Chess 2015, followed by the Sinquefield
Cup in August/September, and finishing with the London Chess
Classic in December.
The participating players are:
Magnus Carlsen (Norway)
Viswanathan Anand (India)
Fabiano Caruana (Italy)
Alexander Grischuk (Russia)
Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria)
Levon Aronian (Armenia)
Anish Giri (Netherlands)
Hikaru Nakamura (USA)
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)