Paris Grand Chess Tour Starts Today (Wednesday) — thechessmind.net

That's a little more than six hours from now, as of this writing - at 8 a.m. ET, 2 p.m. local time in Paris. The format is the same as in Leuven, and the cast of characters is mostly the same as well. As usual, there are nine full-time participants in each year's Grand Chess Tour, with one wildcard per tournament. In Leuven that was Anish Giri; this time it's Vladimir Kramnik (a Paris resident for years now, thanks to his wife).

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