Wednesday
Jul202011
Dortmund Starts Tomorrow; Round 1 Pairings
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 8:39PM
It's not enough that Biel and the World Team Championship are underway, now we have Dortmund, too! It starts tomorrow with the following pairings:
Vladimir Kramnik (many-time winner, former world champion) - Ruslan Ponomariov (defending champ and former FIDE world champ)
Georg Meier (top German player) - Le Quang Liem (qualified by winning Aeroflot)
Anish Giri (one of the youngest 2700s in history, perhaps the youngest) - Hikaru Nakamura (Wijk aan Zee winner)
Tournament site here.
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