2009 China (Nanjing) Pearl Spring Chess Tournament will be held at Pearl Spring in the golden autumn. Mr. Ye Jiangchuan, the head coach of China chess team, told the reporter that six top chess masters are now actively preparing the tournament. As the first competition of the chess grand slam tournament, more and more people are concerning about this tournament, players, organizer and fans are all looking forward to this tournament.

　　Nanjing successfully held Nanjing chess grandmaster invitational tournament and received more and more attention by chess field last year, and Pukou district also won the title of best competition zone. This tournament formally included in the list of chess grand slam tournament this year. Mr Ye Jiangchuan said “Nanjing super tournament has more and more influence whatever it is inside or outside the chess field, it will become the well-known brand tournament in China chess field even in the whole China sports field”.

　　Topalov, Bulgaria, the first in the world rankings is deciding to participate in this tournament, other players are also in top ten of the world rankings except Wang Yue from China. Mr. Ye Jiangchuan introduced that Carlson from Norway, Leko from Hungary and Jakovenko from Russia respectively won the second, third and forth places in the Dortmund Chess Tournament held on July, they all deciding to participate in this tournament, and their grade equivalent score achieved 2775. “It is the preview of Nanjing Super Chess Tournament, and the tournament will be intensely.”

　　Wang Yue has perfect state in recent tournaments, so what will be his performance? “It is a pressure and also a power.” According to the introduction of Mr. Ye Jiangchuan, Wangyue has improved his sports level day by day, his world ranking is 13 now. The result between Wang Yue and Topalov was dogfall in the final round in Sophia Super Tournament held on May this year and he got the forth. This is also explains that Wang Yue has entered the ranks of world’s super players.

　　For the prospect of Nanjing Super Tournament, Mr. Ye Jiangchuan said“it is difficult to predict the winner, but I still bullish on Topalov through the overall strength. It is not wonder for Topalov to occupy the first in the world ranking for a long-time, because he is an attacking player, he is full of fight, with various tricks of layout, more accurate counting degrees and high winning percentage during the tournament”.

Source:Xinhua Daily