Talk:Grenke Chess Classic

Grenke Chess Open

User:Chessrat added the currently underway Grenke Chess Open to this article, but actually it's a completly different tournament from the Grenke Chess Classic; the only thing in common is the sponsor, GRENKE, which sponsored in previous years, among others, also the Mainz Chess Classic, a festival with rapid and Chess960 events dubbed as world championships where also world top players took part in (e.g. Gata Kamsky won in 2010 the Open Grenke Rapid World Championship). Grenke Chess Open is actually the new name of the Neckar Open, as explained by this article by Chessbase in German and by chess24's description. So I think this open should not be included in this article about the Grenke Chess Classic, which was (by now I think it can be included among the recently canceled tournaments) an elite round-robin. Sophia91 (talk) 20:46, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

I remember hearing in a recent commentary during the current Candidates event that the Grenke Chess Classic is held every two years.Jkmaskell (talk) 20:52, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't know that. This year's Grenke Chess Open contains several elite players (Li Chao, Vitiugov, Bacrot, Radjabov and Korobov), so I had assumed it was the successor to the Grenke Chess Classic. However, it seems this assumption was mistaken. I'll remove that 2016 section. Chessrat ^{(talk,contributions)} 21:02, 25 March 2016 (UTC)