Amber chess tournament
The Amber tournament ( officially: Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament, before: Melody Amber ) is a chess tournament in which the participants who usually belong to the world leaders, are determined exclusively by invitation. The tournament was founded in 1992 and is sponsored annually by the Dutch two-time correspondence chess world champion, entrepreneur and carom and chess patron Joop van Oosterom. It is named after his first daughter, he dedicated his second daughter, Crystal Kelly tournament, a well -respected as highly doped Carambolageturnier in the discipline of three-band. It took place from 1994 to 2011.
The counterparty at the Melody Amber occur into two disciplines against each other: in the first held in rapid chess and blitz chess, since the second edition of 1993 is the second discipline a fast variant of blind chess.
From 1992, the year of birth of the eponymous daughter, until 2007 it was held in a luxury hotel in Monte Carlo and mostly in the second half of March every year. 2008 to 2010 the tournament was held in Nice at the Hotel Palais de la Mediterranee. The 20th and last edition of the tournament will again be held in Monaco and indeed in the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort. Overall winner of the tournament is the player with the most points from both disciplines; and there are also the winners of the individual disciplines prize money fees.
A rapid chess and blindfold chess game be played per day, respectively, against the same opponent with colors reversed. Not just the rapid chess, and the reactive parts are completed in rapid chess mode; each player has 25 minutes plus per game for each train made 10 seconds credit the rapid chess or 20 second time bonus at blindfold chess available.
During 1993 and 1994, the first rapid chess and then the blindfold game has been played is - because of the inflammation associated with a high rate of error in the blindfold chess fatigue - played in the reverse order since 1995.
As a quick and blind chess tournament it is not evaluated by FIDE for the Elo rating in the world rankings.
Tournament Winner
Vladimir Kramnik
List of participants
9 Amber 2000
Held from 16 to 28 March 2000
- Anatoly Karpov
- Alexei Shirov, rapid chess and overall winner
- Vasyl Ivanchuk
- Boris Gelfand
- Veselin Topalov
- Vladimir Kramnik, blindfold chess champion
- Jeroen Piket
- Loek van Wely
- Ljubomir Ljubojević
- Viswanathan Anand
- Predrag Nikolić
- Joel Lautier
10 Amber 2001
Held from 17 to 29 March 2001
- Alexei Shirov
- Péter Lékó
- Vasyl Ivanchuk
- Boris Gelfand, shared rapid chess champion
- Veselin Topalov, blindfold chess and overall winner
- Vladimir Kramnik, shared rapid chess champion
- Zoltán Almási
- Jeroen Piket
- Loek van Wely
- Ljubomir Ljubojević
- Viswanathan Anand
- Anatoly Karpov
11 Amber 2002
Held from 16 to 28 March 2002
- Alexander Morozevich, Blind Chess Champion and overall winner
- Alexei Shirov
- Péter Lékó
- Vasyl Ivanchuk
- Boris Gelfand, rapid chess champion
- Veselin Topalov
- Evgeny Bareev
- Vladimir Kramnik
- Zoltán Almási
- Jeroen Piket
- Loek van Wely
- Ljubomir Ljubojević
12 Amber 2003
Held from the 15th to March 27th, 2003
- Viswanathan Anand, overall winner
- Alexander Morozevich
- Alexei Shirov
- Péter Lékó
- Vasyl Ivanchuk
- Boris Gelfand
- Veselin Topalov
- Evgeny Bareev, rapid chess champion
- Vladimir Kramnik, blindfold chess champion
- Zoltán Almási
- Loek van Wely
- Ljubomir Ljubojević
13 Amber 2004
Be held from 20 March to 1 April 2004 Price funds: € 193,250
- Viswanathan Anand
- Evgeny Bareev
- Boris Gelfand
- Vasyl Ivanchuk
- Vladimir Kramnik, divided overall, rapid and blindfold chess champion
- Péter Lékó
- Alexander Morozevich, divided overall, rapid and blindfold chess champion
- Alexei Shirov
- Peter Svidler
- Veselin Topalov
- Francisco Vallejo Pons
- Loek Van Wely
14 Amber 2005
Held from March 19 to March 31 prize fund: € 193,250
- Viswanathan Anand, total, blind and rapid chess champion
- Evgeny Bareev
- Boris Gelfand
- Vasyl Ivanchuk
- Vladimir Kramnik
- Péter Lékó
- Alexander Morozevich
- Alexei Shirov
- Peter Svidler
- Veselin Topalov
- Francisco Vallejo Pons
- Loek Van Wely
15 Amber 2006
( former world ranking in brackets)
- Veselin Topalov ( 2)
- Viswanathan Anand (3) rapid chess champion and shared overall winner
- Peter Svidler ( 4)
- Levon Aronian ( 5)
- Péter Lékó ( 7)
- Vasyl Ivanchuk ( 8)
- Boris Gelfand (9 )
- Alexander Morozevich (11) blindfold chess champion and shared overall winner
- Alexander Grishchuk (12 )
- Francisco Vallejo Pons (54 )
- Vladimir Kramnik (59 )
- Peter Heine Nielsen ( 66)
16 Amber 2007
( former world ranking in brackets)
- Viswanathan Anand ( 2), chess winner and second overall
- Vladimir Kramnik (3) Blind Chess Champion and overall winner
- Vasyl Ivanchuk ( 5)
- Péter Lékó (6 )
- Levon Aronian ( 7)
- Alexander Morozevich ( 8)
- Boris Gelfand (10 )
- Teymur Rəcəbov (11 )
- Peter Svidler (12 )
- Magnus Carlsen ( 24)
- Loek van Wely (26 )
- Francisco Vallejo Pons (29 )
17 Amber 2008
Held from the 15th to March 27th, 2008
( former world ranking in brackets)
- Vladimir Kramnik ( 1), divided blindfold chess champion
- Viswanathan Anand ( 2)
- Veselin Topalov ( 3), divided blindfold chess champion
- Alexander Morozevich ( 4), divided blindfold chess champion
- Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov (6)
- Péter Lékó ( 8)
- Vasyl Ivanchuk (9 )
- Levon Aronian (10 ), active chess and overall winner, shared blindfold chess champion
- Boris Gelfand (11 )
- Magnus Carlsen (13 )
- Serhiy Karjakin (14 )
- Loek van Wely (35 )
18 Amber 2009
Held from 14 to 26 March 2009
( former world ranking in brackets)
- Veselin Topalov ( 1)
- Viswanathan Anand ( 2), shared rapid chess champion
- Vasyl Ivanchuk ( 3)
- Magnus Carlsen ( 4), divided blindfold chess champion
- Alexander Morozevich ( 5)
- Teymur Rəcəbov (6 )
- Vladimir Kramnik ( 8), divided blindfold chess champion
- Péter Lékó (9 )
- Levon Aronian (11 ), overall winner, split -blind and rapid chess champion
- Wang Yue (13 )
- Gata Kamsky (17 ), divided chess champion
- Serhiy Karjakin (27 )
19 Amber 2010
Held from 13 to 25 March 2010
( World ranking in brackets)
- Magnus Carlsen ( 1), divided overall winner and shared rapid chess champion
- Vladimir Kramnik ( 3)
- Levon Aronian ( 5)
- Alexander Grishchuk (7) blindfold chess champion
- Peter Svidler ( 8)
- Boris Gelfand (9 )
- Vasyl Ivanchuk (11 ), divided overall winner and shared rapid chess champion
- Wugar Gaschimow (12)
- Ruslan Ponomariov (15 )
- Serhiy Karjakin (21 )
- Leinier Domínguez ( 27)
- January Smeets (87 )
Originally Alexander Morozevich was provided as a participant, he was replaced after a last-minute cancellation by Alexander Grishchuk. The prize fund of the tournament was 216,000 euros.
20 Amber 2011
Held from 11 to 24 March 2011
( World ranking in brackets)
- Viswanathan Anand ( 1)
- Magnus Carlsen ( 2) rapid chess champion
- Levon Aronian (3) Blind Chess Champion and overall winner
- Vladimir Kramnik ( 4)
- Vasily Ivanchuk ( 5)
- Sergey Karjakin (6 )
- Veselin Topalov ( 7)
- Hikaru Nakamura ( 8)
- Alexander Grishchuk (10 )
- Vugar Gashimov (11 )
- Boris Gelfand (16 )
- Anish Giri (43 )
The prize fund of the tournament was 227,000 euros.