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The 2nd  London Chess Classic  takes place in the Olympia Conference Center, Kensington, London, UK. The event is Category 20.

Participants: Viswanathan Anand (2804), Magnus Carlsen (2802), Vladimir Kramnik (2791), Hikaru Nakamura (2741), Michael Adams(2723), Nigel Short (2680), Luke McShane (2645) and David Howell (2611).

Prize fund: 145,000 Euros. Six main prizes: 1st 50,000 Euros, 2nd 25,000 Euros, 3rd 15,000 Euros, 4th 10,000 Euros, 5th 10,000 Euros, 6th 8,000 Euros. Plus 7 Daily Best Game prizes of 1,000 Euros (voted on by the public) and a winners’ pool of 20,000 Euros for each game won.

Format: single round-robin of seven rounds.
Score system: 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw.

Time control: 40 moves in 2 hours, then 20 moves in 1 hour and then 15 minutes to finish the game with 30 seconds increment from move 61. Sofia Rules.
Playing days: 7-12 and 14-15 December.
Games begin: 2:00 PM  (4.00 PM on 9 Dec, 12PM on 15 Dec) GMT / 5:00 PM (7 PM on 9 Dec, 3 PM on 15 Dec) Moscow time.

Live commentaries by GM Sergey Shipov:

Colin McGourty’s translations first appear in real time at the special “live games” page of his site “Chess in Translation” and then, after some editing, can be found at their permanent locations:

Anand – Nakamura 1/2 - 1/2
Kramnik - Nakamura 0 - 1
Anand - Carlsen 1 - 0
Carlsen - Nakamura 1 - 0
Anand - McShane 1/2 - 1/2
Kramnik - Carlsen 1/2 - 1/2
Anand - Kramnik 1/2 - 1/2

 
Official site
Live transmission

Once again, as part of the Crestbook KC-Conference project, you have the chance to ask a super-grandmaster absolutely anything you want. Now it's Ruslan Ponomariov, the youngest World Champion in history (in a FIDE knockout, it’s true, but beating Morozevich, Bareev, Svidler and Ivanchuk along the way!). Nevertheless, he’s still perhaps one of the lesser-known super-grandmasters, so this is a chance to put things right.

Your questions for GM Ruslan Ponomariov can be submitted in English at a special post at Chess in Translation site. Of course, it is also possible to submit your questions in Russian at KasparovChess forum.

Now published!
KC - Conference with Ruslan Ponomariov: Part 2

KC - Conference with Ruslan Ponomariov: Part 1

Peter Svidler, one of the most likeable and colourful members of the chess elite, is ready to answer chess fans questions as part of the Crestbook KC-Conference project. Until now it was only possible to pose questions in Russian. Not anymore! You can now ask the five-time Russian Champion about virtually anything in English as a special thread "Your questions for GM Peter Svidler" is open at Chess in Translation. Of course, it is also possible to submit your questions in Russian at KasparovChess forum. The deadline is 10 November.

Now both  parts of Svidler's conference have been published:

KC-Conference with Peter Svidler: Part 2

KC-Conference with Peter Svidler: Part 1

The KC-Conferences Project was launched at Crestbook  in September, 2009 and has proven very popular. So far nine prominent figures from the chess world have answered numerous questions submitted by KasparovChess forum members. Fragments of the conferences have in fact already appeared at a number of English-language chess sites and forums but as a service to chess enthusiasts around the world we intend to present full English translations of all of them.

Dana Mackenzie and Colin McGourty are going to translate all the KC-conferences published in Russian at Crestbook. Watch this space!

Earlier:

KC-Conference with Alexander Grischuk 

KC-Conference with Michal Krasenkow. 

KC-Conference with Alexander Khalifman: Part One

KC-Conference with Alexander Khalifman: Part Two

KC-Conference with Alexander Khalifman: Part Three

The second stage of the 2010 Grand Slam Masters Final takes place 9-15 October in Bilbao, Spain.

Grandmasters Magnus Carlsen (ELO - 2826), Viswanathan Anand (2800), Vladimir Kramnik (2780) and Alexei Shirov (2749) play in a double round-robin tournament.

Score system: 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw.
Time control: 90 minutes/40 moves + 60 minutes + 10 seconds/move as of move 41
Playing days: 9-11 и 13-15 октября.
Games begin: 4:30 PM local time / 7:30 PM Moscow time

Live commentaries by Sergey Shipov:

Colin McGourty’s translations first appear in real time at the special “live games” page of his site “Chess in Translation” and then, after some editing, can be found at their permanent locations:

Kramnik - Carlsen: 1 - 0
Carlsen – Anand 0 - 1
Anand-Kramnik 1/2 - 1/2
Carlsen – Kramnik 1/2 - 1/2
Carlsen – Shirov 1 - 0 
Anand – Carlsen 1/2 - 1/2

Official site
Official live transmission