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(Sofia, 28 April, 2009) The World Champion in chess Antoaneta Stefanova will comment the games from the fifth edition of the super chess tournament M-Tel Masters. The competition will start on 12 May. For the title up to 23 May will compete the leader in the world ranking Veselin Topalov, Magnus Carlsen from Norway, the last year’s winner Vassily Ivanchuk from Ukraine, Leinier Dominguez from Cuba, Alexei Shirov from Spain and Yue Wang from China. The average ELO of the participants is 2755, which makes the tournament FIDE 21st category. Only five tournaments in history have been of that rank so far.
Bulgaria's all time strongest female player won the chess crown at the Wordl Championship in Elista in 2004. She is currently fourth in the ladies' world ranking with an ELO of 2549.
The commentator's place of Stefanova will be meters away from glass pavilion where the games from the tournament will be played. Her guests will be Bulgarian GMs and after each game she will be able to analyze the game with the participants.
The comments and analysis of Stefanova will be heard also online in real time on the web site of the tournament www. mtelmasters.com. The games from the tournament will start every day at 16:00 local time, only the last round's games will begin at 15:00.
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