The 2010 Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess Tournament takes place from October 19th to October 30th in Nanjing, China.

Magnus Carlsen (2826), Veselin Topalov (2803), Viswanathan Anand (2800), Wang Yue (2732), Vugar Gashimov (2719), Etienne Bacrot (2716) are participating in the tournament this year.

It is a ten-round double round-robin event.
Time control: 40 moves in two hours then 20 moves in one hour followed by tha rest of the game in 15 minutes with a 30 second increment as of move 61.

Total prize fund is 250 thousand Euros :
First place: 80,000 Euros
Second place: 55,000 Euros
Third place: 40,000 Euros
Fourth place: 30,000 Euros
Fifth place: 25,000 Euros
Sixth place: 20,000 Euros

Official web site: http://www.chess-pearlspring.com/www/chess_pk/2009/en/index.htm

Live broadcast: http://www.chess-pearlspring.com:8081/10_m_en/user/user.asp