The 50th and jubilee edition of the Biel International Chess Festival is set to be held in Switzerland from 22 July to August 2. A number of chess tournaments, simultaneous games and chess seminars will be held within the festival.

As the Chess Federation of Armenia told Panorama.am, the chess festival features two GM tournaments, one of which will be held in classical chess variant, with the second one in rapid chess discipline. Armenian GM Rafael Vahanyan will take part in the two tournaments.

In the Classic Chess Tournament the opponents of the Armenian player are Pentala Harikrishna, David Navara, Ruslan Ponomariov, Peter Leko, Etienne Bacrot, Alexander Morozevich, Yifan Hou, Noël Studer and Nico Georgiadis. Anatoly Karpov, David Navara, Pentala Harikrishna, Alexander Morozevich, Yannick Pelletier, Yifan Hou, Vlastimil Hort and Rafael Vahanyan will compete in the Rapid Tournament.