Nakamura vs. Ponomariov and Korchnoi vs. Finegold in St. Louis

St. Louis is not just the place to be for the U.S. Championship; there are other big-time events going on there as well. Coming up in exactly two weeks (May 16) are a pair of matches featuring their resident GMs, Hikaru Nakamura and Ben Finegold. Nakamura (currently #8 in the world) will take on former FIDE k.o. champ (and current world #11) Ruslan Ponomariov while Finegold takes on the legendary Viktor Korchnoi.

Both are 10-game matches, consisting first of six games with a "classical" time control followed by four rapid contests. More info here.

Comments

[Graham]

Jennifer Shahade mentioned something about the matches being commentated too (like the recent US Chp).

[JH]

This is going to be a spectacular event for US Chess.

There hasn't been anything like it in my memory.

Too bad it is overlapping the candidates matches...........