The 3rd Zurich Chess Challenge is almost half a year away, but as this super-event features Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana, Viswanathan Anand, Hikaru Nakamura and Boris Gelfand it's one to look forward to. This event will run from January 29 to February 4, and with a most unusual format. It will start with a conventional classical round-robin, but once that's over there will be a second cycle with colors reversed and a rapid time control. The total scores will be a weighted aggregate of the two cycles: the system for the classical games is 2-1-0 while the rapid uses the traditional 1-1/2-0 values.
This will also be the first tournament for Anand and Carlsen after their title match, and it will be interesting to see if the loser manages to bounce back and get some revenge.