London tournament announcement

Ian Kingston · Post by **Ian Kingston** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:23 am

This looks interesting:

London Chess Centre announces brand new super tournament in December in London

Does anyone know any more than is in the announcement above?

TomChivers · Post by **TomChivers** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:16 pm

Nigel Short will play according to his chessgames page.

Leonard Barden · Post by **Leonard Barden** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:19 pm

The 3 English will presumably be Adams, Short and Howell. Rumour is that the sponsor is a hedge fund manager or something similar.

Sean Hewitt · Post by **Sean Hewitt** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:53 pm

I think this is excellent news and I for one offer Malcolm Pein my congratulations for putting it together.

Hope the venue is appropriate for such an event. I'm sure it will be!

John Upham · Post by **John Upham** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:43 pm

I sincerley hope that this tournaments raises the bar of how top level chess is presented in the UK to the public.

I hope to see new benchmarks such as we have become used to seeing at Linares, Wijk aan Zee, Corus including the famous glass player cages.

No more to elderly demo boards on rickety old easels, lives games being transmitted to the analysis room via runners on bits of paper etc etc.

A big opportunity that we should all embrace and support!

Jonathan Bryant · Post by **Jonathan Bryant** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:16 pm

Leonard Barden wrote:Rumour is that the sponsor is a hedge fund manager or something similar.

Aren't they all skint now?

Anyway, this is obviously good news.

Mike Truran · Post by **Mike Truran** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:23 pm

Even if they're skint they're still probably in better shape than some other 'sponsors' the ECF has got itself involved with.

Carl Hibbard · Post by **Carl Hibbard** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:23 pm

Sean Hewitt wrote:I think this is excellent news and I for one offer Malcolm Pein my congratulations for putting it together.

Hope the venue is appropriate for such an event. I'm sure it will be!

Since Malcolm is a forum member lets hope he logs on and expands on the little information we have so far

Jonathan Bryant · Post by **Jonathan Bryant** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:45 pm

TomChivers wrote:Nigel Short will play according to his chessgames page.

I'm available too

Gary Cook · Post by **Gary Cook** » Sun May 03, 2009 6:03 pm

Any news on this, the ECF sites says the players would be announced in April?

Matthew Turner · Post by **Matthew Turner** » Mon May 04, 2009 8:05 am

Contracts (with players) are being signed now and I believe the line-up will be announced before the end of the week. Speculation (and I reiterate speculation) is that the three English players will be Adams, Short and MacShane and that Aronian will play.

LozCooper · Post by **LozCooper** » Mon May 04, 2009 10:20 am

No David Howell?

Matthew Turner · Post by **Matthew Turner** » Tue May 05, 2009 6:08 pm

Lawrence,
That is the implication of the speculation!

benedgell · Post by **benedgell** » Sat May 16, 2009 3:19 pm

Any more news on this tournament? All sounded terrifically exciting when it was first announced, hope there aren't any problems.

Andy Burnett · Post by **Andy Burnett** » Sat May 16, 2009 4:46 pm

This seems to be the most recent news - looks like a very interesting mix of styles so far.

http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html#london09

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