DDL Topco tournament begins today

With Errol Tiwari

The DDL Topco Juices Independence eight round swiss system chess tournament begins this morning at 10 am at the Kei Shar’s sports club in Hadfield St.
DDL has put up a prize fund of $50,000 for the tournament which is being held in a junior and a senior category. Three rounds will be played today, three rounds next Sunday, and the final two rounds will be played on Independence day. Chess players throughout the country are invited to participate in the tournament and are asked to bring along their chess sets and clocks. The time limit is 90 minutes per player for each game.

In international news, it was grandmaster Wang Yue of China, Norway’s child prodigy Magnus Carlsen and newcomer Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan who tied for first place in the first FIDE Grand Prix chess tournament in Baku. The event is part of a series of six tournaments which will be held over a two-year period. Twenty-one of the highest ranked grandmasters in the world were selected by FIDE to participate in the tournament. …..