Grand Slam Final Bilbao 02 September 2008
The Chess Grand Slam Final takes place in Bilbao 2st-13th September 2008 with a prize fund of 400,000 €. There are 6 players. The first qualifiers were the winners of Corus 2008, Morelia – Linares 2008, and Mtel Masters 2008 – GM Levon Aronian, GM Viswanathan Anand, and GM Vassily Ivanchuk. Then the 2nd place players also qualified GM Magnus Carlsen and GM Veselin Topalov and finally the best all-round player left Teimour Radjabov. Playing time: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves and another 60 minutes to finish the game. Players will get 3 points for winning a match, 1 point for drawing and 0 points for losing.

1 round; 2 round; 3 round; 4 round; 5 round; 6 round; 7 round; 8 round; 9 round; 10 round; Live comments by ICCF IM Mikhail Emelyanov: V. Anand – V.Ivanchuk V.Ivanchuk – M.Carlsen V. Topalov – M.Carlsen