I. Core Activity: Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess Tournament
Time: September 27th – October 9th, 2009
Venue: Pearl Spring Holiday Resort, Nanjing, China
Organizer: Municipal People’s Government of Nanjing; Chess & Cards Administration Center of General Administration of Sport of China
Undertaker: People’s Government of Pukou District; Nanjing Administration of Sport
Prize: 250,000 euros
Players to be invited: Topalov (Bulgaria, ranked 1st in the world), Carlsen (Norway, ranked 3rd in the world), Yakovenko (Russia, ranked 5th in the world) , Leko (Hungary, ranked 7th in the world), Radjybov (Azerbaijan, ranked 8th in the world)and Wang Yue(China,ranked 13th in the world.
II. Key Activity: Nanjing 2009-2010 Women's FIDE Grand Prix
Time: September 27th – October 9th, 2009
Venue: Pearl Spring Holiday Resort, Nanjing, China
Organizer: Municipal People’s Government of Nanjing; Chess & Cards Administration Center of General Administration of Sport of China
Undertaker: People’s Government of Pukou District; Nanjing Administration of Sport
Scale: 12 female chess grandmasters
Prize: 50,000 US dollars
Chess players: Nana Dzagnidze(GEO)、Marie Sebag(FRA)、Zhu Chen(QAT)、Lilit Mkrtchian(ARM)、Munguntuul Batkhuyag(MNG)、Baira Kovanova(RUS)、Martha Fierro(ECU)、Betul Yildiz(TUR)、Zhao Xue(CHN)、Xu Yuhua(CHN)、Shen Yang(CHN)、Ju Wenjun(CHN).
III. Peripheral Activity （optional activities of sponsor enterprises）
1、Chess Dual Meet of Universities in the North and South
Time: October 7th, 2009
Venue: Nanjing
Organizer: Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess Tournament Competition Organizing Committee
Scale: 200 students from Tshinghua University and Peking University and 200 students from Nanjing University and Southeast University (tentative)
2、Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess Tourism Festival
Time: September 27th – October 9th, 2009
Venue: Pearl Spring Holiday Resort, Nanjing, China
Organizer: Management Committee Office of Pearl Spring Holiday Resort
Sponsor: Pukou District Sports Bureau; Pukou District Bureau of Cultural Affairs; Pukou District Tourism Bureau
Introduction: With the backing of Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess Tournament and chess culture, there’s a plan of building tourism feature of chess in the Pearl Spring. Meanwhile, by inviting literary groups from the Grand Slam Chess Tournament host cities to have cultural communication, the reputation and tourism revenue of the Pearl Spring will be improved.
3、Student Chess Summer Camp
Time: during the summer vacation
Venue: Nanjing
Organizer: Pukou District Sports Bureau; Yiwei Dujiang Company
Sponsor: Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology; Nanjing Foreign Language School, Jiangpu Experimental Primary school and so on
Introduction: Promote chess in Pukou District as an educational feature to facilitate the popularization and development of chess
