"Magnificient Eight" announced
The eight participants invited for the annual super-tournament is officially announced.
Featuring newly-crowned chess superbowl winner and four-times RCI Cup winner Singaporean Grandmaster Benjamin Tan.
Two other former superbowl winner GM Andrei Jantovoltski (1999 - 2003) and GM Hanrol Steniken (2004-2005) are invited too.
Other participants includes Vietnam's superstar IM Le Kong Nam - winner of the 2009 King's Cup, Indonesian star FM Sarat Tohatmatai - winner of the 2009 SEA Chess Congress Class B, Malaysian star FM Dave Wong Wei Zi - winner of the 2009 Baltic Warrior Cup, Indian super prodigy IM Kashmov Kashima - 1st runner up of the 2010 Salzburg Emerald and American IM Ray Evans - winner of the Bulls Cup 2010.
Games would be played at the time control of 15 minutes per side without time increment.
In case of a tie-break, a "first-to-six-points" format of blitz games would be played, with draws counting too.
The first round would start on January 18 2011
Round 1 pairing would look something like this
Dave Wong vs Benjamin Tan
Sarat Tohatmatai vs Hanrol Steniken
Andrei Jantovoltski vs Le Kong Nam
Ray Evans vs Kashmov Kashima
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