Linares 2008

The second super-tournament of the year gets underway with the annual Morelia/Linares tournament. The eight-player, double round-robin has a stellar field that includes (in rating order): Vishy Anand (India), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Alexei Shirov (Spain), Peter Leko (Hungary), Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Levon Aronian (Armenia), Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan) and Magnus Carlsen (Norway).

The Mexican leg runs 14-23 February in Morelia (16:30 EST), with the second leg running February 28 - 8 March (09:30 EST) in the tournament's spiritual home of Linares, Spain. The ICC Chess.FM team of Mig Greengard and our GM commentators of Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen, Ronen Har-Zvi, John Fedorowicz, Nick De Firmian, Jon Speelman and Gregory Kaidanov will bring you each round all the move-by-move live action.

We'll also have the New In Chess trivia contest (where each day you can win a 1-year subscription to New In Chess), each round a Game of the Day video, our roving reporter Macauley Peterson's on-site videos from both Morelia and Linares, and a special Linares preview video - free for all - from our opening day commentator, GM Ronen Har-Zvi.

On ICC, finger Linares08 for further details including the Chess.FM commentary line-up for each round. Official site: www.ajedrezmorelialinares.com.mx