SAINT LOUIS (November 20, 2013) — The Saint Louis Classic, featuring both an IM and a GM norm tournament, will kick off at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis on Thursday, November 21.

The nine-round, round-robin tournaments are scheduled to be held November 21-27 at the Chess Club in Saint Louis, and the games will be broadcast live at www.uschesschamps.com.

Hungarian GM Boros,Denes will play in the GM RR.

GM Norm Event

• GM-Elect Krush, Irina (USA): 2502
• GM Bykhovsky, Anatoly (Israel): 2502
• GM Boros, Denes (Hungary): 2484
• IM Yang, Darwin (USA): 2482
• GM Diamant, Andre (Brazil): 2465
• IM Panjwani, Raja (Canada): 2450
• IM Sarkar, Justin (USA): 2432
• IM Bartholomew, John (USA): 2425
• IM Kannappan, Priyadharshan (India): 2402
• IM Kleiman, Jake (USA): 2362

IM Norm Event

• IM Gorovets, Andrey (Belarus): 2480
• IM Bregadze, Levan (Georgia): 2396
• FM Homa, Seth (USA): 2348
• FM Xiong, Jeffrey (USA): 2344
• FM Vibbert, Sean (USA): 2318
• IM Young, Angelo (Philippines): 2311
• WGM Nemcova, Katerina (USA): 2296
• FM Kavutskiy, Konstantin (USA): 2275
• FM Liang, Awonder (USA): 2247
• WIM Agrest, Inna (Sweden): 2160