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Tournament info
The 2018 GRENKE Chess Classic is a 10-player round-robin held in Germany from 31 March to 9 April.
The first 3 rounds are in Karlsruhe alongside the GRENKE Chess Open, then after a rest day the last 6 rounds are in the Kulturhaus in Baden-Baden.
The field features World Champion Magnus Carlsen and Top 10 players Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Vishy Anand and Levon Aronian, as well as women's no. 1 Hou Yifan.
The time control is 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 moves and then 15 minutes to the end of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 1.
If players are tied for first place a rapid play-off will take place.
