Tomorrow is *NOT* Another PRO Chess League Day
If it's a Wednesday early in the year, then it's probably a PRO Chess League day - all day long. Probably and usually, but not this week; the action will be pushed back to "Super Saturday".
For those who haven't been following it, it's a worldwide league competition with short rapid (15'+2") time controls. Many of the world's best are on teams and participate regularly, including Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hikaru Nakamura, and the list goes on and on. Teams are divided up into geographical regions, and attempt to qualify from those regions into the playoffs. The season is still in the qualification stage.
Part of the fun is that lower-rated players (sometimes that means "a strong GM who's not quite Grand Chess Tour caliber", and sometimes it means "a strong club player") face off against the world's super-elite, and occasionally they draw blood. Here are two examples from last week's action.
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