Capablanca Memorial: the Rating Favourite of the Premier Group, Lazaro Bruzon, Withdraws From the Tournament For Personal Reasons

The 49th Capablanca Memorial takes place 7th-18th May in Havana, Cuba reports Chessdom. The festival consists of several tournaments. The elite group will gather six GMs who will compete in double round-robin. This is the strongest ever field in the history of the festival:

Ivanchuk and others to participate in memorial of the third world champion

The 2nd round of the Capablanca Memorial has started several minutes ago in Havana. The leader of the Elite group Leinier Dominguez playes Black against the rating favourite Vassily Ivanchuk. You can follow the games live. 

The penultimate round of the Capablanca Memorial, particularly of the Elite Group, has started at 23:00 MSK Time in Havana. In the key game Ian NEepomniachtchi plays against Vassily Ivanchuk, who is half a point ahead of him. You can follow this and other encounters live. 

In Cuba, the memorial event for the great Jose Raoul Capablanca is taking place for the 50th time. As usual, in the main, "elite" tournament, we have a double-cycle all play all with six players - a solid group of 2700s, plus Lazaro Bruzon, who slightly lags behind on rating. 

The games of the 8th round of Capablanca Memorial have started several minutes ago in Havana. The leader of the Elite Group Vassily Ivanchuk is White against the outsider Quesada; next to them play Laznicka - Nepomniachtchi and Potkin - Dominguez. You can follow the games live. 

The elite group of the Capablanca Memorial has completed the last round in Havana today. Before the last playing day Zoltan Almasi was half a point ahead of Yuniesky Quesada and Leinier Dominguez. The Cuban players faced each other in the last round and agreed on a draw in 11 moves. Soon Almasi also finished his game against Andreikin in a draw making only 22 moves.

The games of Round 3 have started several minutes ago in Havana, which hosts Capablanca Memorial. After taking lead in the Elite group Vassily Ivanchuk plays against the outsider Quesada.The Ukrainian preferred to answer Scandinavian defence on 1. e4. The rivals who currently have 1 point are fighting on the neighbouring boards. You can follow the games LIVE.