Another strong competition will take place in St. Petersburg from October 27th till November 4th. The North capital will host Chigorin Memorial - the Russian Cup stage among men. This will be a 9 round Swiss competition; at the moment 280 players confirmed participation, 75 of them are GMs (including WGMs). Here are just some of the players who are going to participate: Alexei Shirov, Alexander Areschenko, Zoltan Almasi, Vladimir Akopian, Nikita Vitiugov, Evgeny Alekseev, Pavel Eljanov, Krishnan Sasikiran, Vadim Zvjagintsev, Vladimir Potkin.