Some of the world's very best players are in London, and many of the rest of the absolute elite are playing now in Beijing, in the SportAccord World Mind Games. It started on Thursday and will continue through next Wednesday, with the players first playing rapid chess, then blitz, and then "Basque" (two games simultaneously with the same opponent, one with each color). Stars there include Alexander Grischuk, Levon Aronian, Vassily Ivanchuk, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Peter Leko, Boris Gelfand, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Leinier Dominguez, Teimour Radjabov...and on it goes. And that list doesn't even include the leader after day 1, which is Chinese star Wang Hao, who has 3.5/4. Grischuk has 3, and then in the group with 2.5 there's Aronian, Wang Yue, and Mamedyarov.