2024 FIDE Candidates Blitz at ACC

[Heidi Gay]

Annex Chess Club (ACC) is honored to organize the FIDE Candidates Blitz side event on April 8th at its main playing hall.

Note: Monday April 8th is a rest day and all the candidates, their seconds, visiting GMs and former WC Vishy Anand will receive an invitation as FIDE guests, and may or may not participate.

When: Monday 8 April 2024, from 8:00 p.m. to midnight

Format: 9-round Swiss tournament, one section

Time Control: 3 minutes + 2 second increment

WHERE: Annex Chess Club, 918 Bathurst St. Toronto, ON M5R 3G5

Entry Fee: $75, Early bird price of $55 before March 25. Free entry for GMs/WGMs/IMs/WIMs

Rating: CFC and FIDE rated

The prize fund is tbd at this time. We will send an update soon.

Registration: https://candidates-blitz-2024.square.site

Number of seats: LIMITED - 100 players plus FIDE guests

FIDE-titled players currently registered:

GM Evgeny Bareev (CAN)
GM Emil Sutovsky (ISR)
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk (SUI)
GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon (CAN)
GM Pavel V. Tregubov (FRA)
IM Nikolay Noritsyn (CAN)
IM Mark Plotkin (CAN)
IM Shiyam Thavandiran (CAN)
IM Arthur Calugar (CAN)
IM Michael Barron (CAN)
WGM Qiyu Zhou (CAN)
FM Tymur Keleberda (CAN)
FM Victor Plotkin (CAN)
WIM Yunshan Li (CAN)
CM Koosha Jaferian (CAN)
CM Geordie Derraugh (CAN)
WCM Haneul Park (KOR)

Arbiters: IA Omar Shah (Chief Arbiter), IA Aris Marghetis (Deputy Chief Arbiter), FA Alex Ferreira (Pairings), NA Keith Denning, NA Heidi Gay, NA Victor Zheng (Technical Arbiter), NA Michael Corrie

[Heidi Gay]

GM Mark Bluvshtein who has been away from chess for a while has kindly agreed to do a lecture at 7pm at ACC on Monday April 8th, right before the Blitz.

The theme will be "Life After Chess" - with a Q&A session.

The lecture is open to all within ACC's capacity limits - no entry fees required.

Current list of players registered:

Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 2024 Candidates Blitz

There are not a lot of entries left for interested participants. Please do register asap if you plan to participate as potential extension of the capacity is contingent on FIDE's guest list.