Dortmund Starts Tomorrow; Round 1 Pairings
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 8:39PM
Dennis Monokroussos in Dortmund 2011

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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