Melody Amber tournament
Posted by masugly on March 17, 2008 in Uncategorized
The annual Melody Amber tournament has started, this time not in Monaco but in the beautiful French seaside resort of Nice, with twelve leading grandmasters playing blindfold and rapid chess games.
The prize fund is a massive 216,000 Euro (currently US $336,000).
Vishy Anand started the event with a spectacular win over Vladimir Kramnik.
