The Last Amber Tournament

The 20th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament takes place from March 12th to 24th at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort, in Monaco. The tournament is organized by the Association Max Euwe in Monaco and the total prize-fund is € 227,000. This is the 20th and last edition of this event.

Participants:
Viswanathan Anand (India), Levon Aronian (Armenia), Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan), Boris Gelfand (Israel), Anish Giri (The Netherlands), Alexander Grischuk (Russia), Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Sergey Karjakin (Russia), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Hikaru Nakamura (United States) and Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria).

The rate of play is 25 minutes per game per player. With every move made in the blindfold games 20 seconds is added to the clock, with every move made in the rapid games 10 seconds is added.

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Rafael Nadal back in action

Having suffered an ill-timed leg injury at the Australian Open in January, Rafa Nadal is reluctant to look too far ahead for the rest of this season. The world number one was sidelined for 10 days after losing to fellow Spaniard David Ferrer in the Australian Open quarter-finals and has competed in only two Davis Cup matches since then.

Nadal is back in action at the Indian Wells ATP tournament, where he won the title in 2007 and 2009, and will launch his campaign against South African Rik de Voest in the second round on Saturday.

Asked by reporters what his goals were for 2011, the French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion replied: "The goal is the match of tomorrow. That’s the first goal, no? We will see." - Full article at Yahoo! Sports