Bilbao Chess Masters Final

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Updated On : 11 Aug, 2017

Full Name
Bilbao Chess Masters Final

Type
international

Location
Bilbao (Spain), Sao Paulo (Brazil)

Disabled
No

Conducted
Annually

Trivia

Bilbao Chess Masters Final was initially organised by Grand Slam Chess Association (GSCA) that became defunct in 2012 and since then the competition has been held annually as an invitational event.

The Bilbao Chess Masters Final is an international level chess competition that is held every year in Spain (recently Brazil as well). The tournament was inaugurated and first played in the year 2008. It was won by Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria. It was formerly called the Grand Slam Chess Final. The Bilbao Chess Masters Final provides a platform for the strongest competitors of the previous years’ Grand Slams to compete in. It is a double round robin tournament and allows four to six players to compete. The Bilbao Chess Masters Final follows the Sofia Chess Rules.

Competition Format

The Bilbao Chess Masters Final follows the round-robin tournament format.
It is the format wherein every player or contestant play with each of the other contestants once.
It is a fair way to derive a champion and is used mostly in competitions with a large number of rounds and a fixed number of participants. The tournament follows the Sofia Chess Rules.
The players cannot draw by making an agreement.