Recall that in addition to the traditional match Kings vs. Princes the match Queens vs. Princesses will be held for the first time in the tournament.
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov opened international Nutcracker Generation Tournament on December 16.
The ceremony, held in the Botvinnik Central House of Chess, was attended by the sponsor of the competition Oleg Skvortsov, the 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov, chief executive of the RCF Mark Glukhovsky, Vice-President of the Russian Chess Federation Pavel Shinskiy, CEO of Renault Russia Andrei Pankov, GMs Yuri Auerbach, Jan Nepomnyashchiy and others.
