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Anand meets Radjabov in Linares opener

Updated on: 19 February,2009 04:12 PM IST  | 
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Rejuvenated after a four-month break, defending champion Viswanathan Anand will be back in competitive chess when he locks horn with Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan in the first round of 22nd Magistral Ciudad De Linares tournament that got underway here.

Anand meets Radjabov in Linares opener

Rejuvenated after a four-month break, defending champion Viswanathan Anand will be back in competitive chess when he locks horn with Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan in the first round of 22nd Magistral Ciudad De Linares tournament that got underway here.




The other players in the fray are Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine, Alexander Grischuk of Russia and debutants Wang Yue of China and Cuban Lenier Dominiguez.

Players will take on each other twice with both white and black and there will be 14 rounds in all spread over 17 days with three rest days thrown in by the organisers.

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