19 April 2019
GRENKE Chess Classic Starts in Germany
Magnus Carlsen is the top seed.
Photo: Maria Emelianova / Chess.com
The first round of the GRENKE Chess Classic will be played in Karlsruhe on April 20. The drawing of lots took place on Thursday evening, according to which the players got the following starting numbers:
1. Georg Meier (Germany, 2628), 2. Levon Aronian (Armenia, 2763), 3. Peter Svidler (Russia, 2735), 4. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France, 2773), 5. Vincent Keymer (Germany, 2516), 6. Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2845), 7. Viswanathan Anand (India, 2774), 8. Fabiano Caruana (USA, 2819), 9. Arkadij Naiditsch (Azerbaijan, 2695), 10. Francisco Vallejo Pons (Spain, 2693).
Round 1 pairings:
Meier - Vallejo Pons, Aronian - Naiditsch, Svidler - Caruana, Vachier-Lagrave - Anand, Keymer - Carlsen.
The match days: April 20-24 (Karlsruhe) and April 26-29 (Baden-Baden). Free day is April 25. The games start at 4 p.m. (Moscow time).
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