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III Quick Chess World Cup of the Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) will be taking place in Odesa through May 22 – 24, 2009.
Within the tournament organized by “Pivdenniy” Bank, 16 players will fight by knock-out system. In compliance with the rules of the ACP, 13 out 16 places were distributed according to the results of the ACP-tour 2007-2008. Total prize fund being 57 thousand USD, 10 thousand USD will go to the winner. A legendary chess-player Viktor Korchnoy was invited again as a commentator for the spectators.
According to the Director of the tournament, Grandmaster, Maria Klinovaya, 11 Grossmasters confirmed their participation so far – Dmitriy Yakovenko (Russia), Aleksandr Grishchuk (Russia), Sergey Movsesyan (Slovakia), Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan), Étienne Bacrot (France), Arkadi Naiditsch (Germany), Pavel Elyanov (Ukraine), Zakhar Yefimenko (Ukraine), Evgeniy Najer (Russia), Pavel Tregubov (Russia) and Yuriy Drozdovsky (Ukraine).