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Leon Tournament Starts Tomorrow
Thursday, July 6, 2017 at 7:39PM
The opening ceremony and drawing of lots took place today at the 30th Leon Chess Tournament, but the action starts tomorrow (Friday). It's a four player knockout event, with semi-final matches on Friday and Saturday followed by the final on Sunday. The matches are best-of-four contests with a 20' + 10" time control, and the first match sees Wesley So take on Jan-Krzysztof Duda while Saturday's semi pits defending champion Viswanathan Anand against relatively young Spanish IM (but rated in the mid-2500s) Jaime Santos. The action all three days starts at 4:30 p.m. local time (= 2:30 p.m. GMT = 10:30 a.m. ET).
tagged Leon 2017, Viswanathan Anand, Wesley So
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