Rapid and Blitz tournament, which is the fourth stop on the Grand Chess Tour 2017, is scheduled to be held in Saint Louis, U.S. from 14-19 August.
The tournament features ten GMs – Garry Kasparov (Russia), Levon Aronian (Armenia), Fabiano Caruana (US), Hikaru Nakamura (US), Viswanathan Anand (India), Sergey Karjakin (Russia), Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia), Lenier Dominguez (Cuba), David Navara (the Czech Republic) and Le Quang Liem (Vietnam).
According to the Armenian National Olympic Committee, the GMs will compete in Rapid tournament on August 14-16, with the Blitz event scheduled on 17-18 August.
In the Blitz games each win is 1 point, a draw is half a point The Rapid games count double, with 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw.
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