Three major July chess events starting
Live games and daily news from Biel, WTCC, and Dortmund
Biel, WTCC, and Dortmund are three of the major summer closed and invitational events. They start in just a few days and will have large coverage with live games, interviews, video analysis, news, and much more on Chessdom.com.
WTCC 2010
(Round 1 July 17th) World Team Chess Championship 2011 (aka WTCC 2011) starts July 17th in Ngibo, China. From the July rating list top players confirmed are the Candidates matches finalist Grischuk, the top Russian player Karjakin, India's young stars from AAI Sasikiran and Negi, Azerbaijan's permanent 2700 club players Radjabov, Mamedyarov, and Gashimov, Ukraine's super star Ivanchuk, China's Wang Yue and Wang Hao, Armenia's 2800 player Levon Aronian, and Hungary's Peter Leko and Zoltan Almasi.
Live games / WTCC 2011 information / Participants / Commentary
Biel Chess 2011
(Round 1 July 18th) The 44th Biel Chess Festival will take place from 18th to 29th July in Biel, Switzerland. The main event is the Accentus Grandmaster Tournament which will be a six-player double round robin. Magnus Carlsen (NOR), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA), Alexei Shirov (ESP), Fabiano Caruana (ITA), Alexander Morozevich (RUS) and Yannick Pelletier (SUI) will participate.
Live games / Biel participants and information / Commentary
Dortmund Chess 2011
(Round 1 July 21st) Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2011 starts July 21st in Germany. It is a double round robin with GM Vladimir Kramnik, GM Hikaru Nakamura, GM Anish Giri, GM Ruslan Ponomariov, GM Le Quang Liem, and GM Georg Meier.
Le Quang Liem and Georg Meier will also participate in the 2011 SPICE Cup A group.
Live games / Dortmund participants and information / Commentary
