Grenke Chess Open 2018 and Grenke Chess Classic will be held from 29 March to 09 April, 2018.

The classic GM tournament starts on 31st of March. The strongest grandmasters in the event are: Magnus Carlsen, Caruana, Anand and Aronian.

Two different venues would be used: Schwarzwaldhallte Karlsruhe (Round 1 to 3), Kulturhaus LA8 Baden-Baden (Round 4 to 9).

More than 1500 chess players confirmed their participation in the Open section, with the top rated: Etienne Bacrot (France), Richard Rapport (Hungary), Wang Hao (China), Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzbekistan).

More information from the official website: http://grenkechessclassic.de/en/

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Championship between Bulgarian GM Vesselin Topalov and World Champion Viswanathan Anand (India).
Bulgaria's bid is to host the FIDE World Championship Match from 5th to 24th 2010 in Sofia. Bulgaria is not the only candidate for hosting the event. Until this moment there are two official bids – from Singapore and Turkey.

The deadline for submitting bids for the match is 30th September 2009.
On 1th October, FIDE will open all bids and on 9th October will announce the winner.

Topalov and Anand will play 12 matches for the title. In case of a draw the winner will be decided in a tie-break of four rapid games.

Vladimir Kramnik won the Zurich Rapid Tournament, finishing with 5/7 points, half a point ahead of the reigning World Champion Viswanathan Anand. Topalov and Ponomariov shared the third place with 4 points. Local favourite Werner Hug managed to draw with Khalifman, Topalov, Kramnik, Karpov and Polgar. This event marked the 200-years anniversary of the first Zurich chessclub. In the champions’ simultaneous exhibition 200 amateur chess players played against eight chess grandmasters - Viswanathan Anand, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Viktor Kortchnoi, Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Spassky, Ruslan Ponomariov and Veselin Topalov. Of the 200 games played, four games ended with wins and 35 games ended in a draw.

GM Vassily Ivanchuk from Ukraine won Jermuk 2009 tournament. He won his final game against Vladimir Akopian and take overall victory with 8.5 /13 points. This is his 5th GP win. Levon Aronian beat Ernesto Inarkiev and finished second (together with Gelfand who beat in last round Peter Leko). So Armenian grandmaster has won the overal FIDE Grand Prix Series with one tournament still to be played.

The event was a memorial to former world champion Tigran Petrosian, who held the title from 1963–1969 and would have turned 80 on June 17th this year.

After playing games of round 9 in Jermuk, Rustam Kasimdzhanov joined to Peter Leko and Vassily Ivanchuk at the top of the leaderboard with 6 points. He scored a win over the free-falling Bulgarian Ivan Cheparinov.

Round 9 – results:

Kamsky Gata ½ - ½ Leko Peter
Kasimdzhanov Rustam 1 – 0 Cheparinov Ivan
Gelfand Boris ½ - ½ Alekseev Evgeny
Eljanov Pave ½ - ½ Ivanchuk Vassily
Karjakin Sergey ½ - ½ Inarkiev Ernesto
Bacrot Etienne ½ - ½ Aronian Levon
Jakovenko Dmitry ½ - ½ Akopian Vladimir

Third round in Jermuk finished with six draws and only one victory. Only Evgeny Alekseev (Russia)scored a win over his compatriot Ernesto Inarkiev.The standings of the 5th Grand Prix tournament didn’t change much: Aronian, Cheparinov and Leko still lead with 2/3.

Current standings top 3:
1. Aronian, L (Armenia) – 2 pts
2. Cheparinov, I (Bulgaria) – 2 pts
3. Leko, P (Hungary) – 2 pts

Like the first round, there were five draws and two victories. Local favourite Levon Aronian fulfilled expectations of his fans and scored a win with white pieces against over Russian GM Evgeny Alekseev. Russian Dmitry Jakovenko won GM Gata Kamsky (USA). The other games were drawn. After his win in round 1 Ivan Cheparinov made a draw against Vladimir Akopian. The other leader, Peter Leko, also made a draw against Pavel Eljanov.

So after Round 2 Ivan Cheparinov, Levon Aronian and Peter Leko are in early lead with 1.5 points each.

After first round of the FIDE Grand Prix Tournament leader is Bulgarian GM Ivan Cheparinov and Peter Leko from Hungary. Cheparinov won against Russian Dmitry Yakovenko and Leko won against Ernesto Inarkiev (Russia). All other games finished draw.
Today are playing games of the second round.

From 8th to 24th August 2009 in Jermuk, Armenia will be held FIDE Grand Prix tournament – Jermuk 2009. The competition is organized by The Armenian Chess Federation. In the tournament will take part Levon Aronian (Armenia), Ivan Cheparinov (Bulgaria), Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Gata Kamsky (USA), Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine), Rustam Kasimdzharov (Uzbekistan), Peter Leko (Hungary) and etc.
Schedule of the tournament:

Jermuk, Armenia 08th - 24th August 2009

1st day: Arrivals & Open. Ceremony	08.08.2009
2nd day: Round 1	09.08.2009
3rd day: Round 2	10.08.2009
4th day: Round 3	11.08.2009
5th day: Round 4	12.08.2009
6th day: Round 5	13.08.2009
7th day: Free day	14.08.2009
8th day: Round 6	15.08.2009
9th day: Round 7	16.08.2009
10th day: Round 8	17.08.2009
11th day: Round 9	18.08.2009
12th day: Free day	19.08.2009
13th day Round 10	20.08.2009
14th day: Round 11	21.08.2009
15th day: Round 12	22.08.2009
16th day: Round 13 & Clos. Ceremony	23.08.2009
17th day: Departure	24.08.2009

Official site: http://jermuk2009.fide.com/