The Cast

The Montreal International Chess Festival runs from July 19 - July 29th. I have no information about time controls, simuls and other side events. Given that the tournament runs ten days, and there are ten players participating, we can infer that there will be no rest days (assuming there is an opening ceremony) or one rest day (if there is no opening ceremony).

I will provide round reports and photos.

CATEGORY 17

1. Vassily Ivanchuk 2729 UKR

2. Gata Kamsky 2705 USA

3. Nigel Short 2691 ENG

4. Pavel Elyanov 2686 UKR

5. Sergey Tiviakov 2663 NED

6. Kamil Miton 2653 POL

7. Pentala Harikrishna 2650 IND

8. Emil Sutovsky 2648 ISR

9. Mark Bluvshtein 2520 CAN

10. Pascal Charbonneau 2502 CAN