In honour of the 85th anniversary of the birth of the 8th World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal, FIDE is endorsing the Lindores Abbey Blitz Tournament, which is taking place on November 8 in the historical Hanzas Perons venue in Riga, Latvia.
Georgiy Tal, the son of Mikhail Tal, will be the guest of honour at the Blitz event. In 2019, he visited Lindores Abbey and, together with the company’s General Manager Andrew McKenzie Smith, presented the World Champion Magnus Carlsen with a chess set made of amber. This amber chess set was presented by the Latvian Government to Mikhail Tal in 1960, following his victory in the World Championship match against Mikhail Botvinnik.
The Swiss System tournament will have nine rounds. Each round will consist of two games played against the same opponent, one game with each colour. Players will be seeded based on their FIDE Blitz rating.
The time control will be 3 minutes plus 2 seconds per move, from move one.
The total prize fund is 60,000 USD. This includes a 10,000 USD fund provided by FIDE for prizes intended for female players only.
Commentary by GMs Anna Muzychuk and Stuart Conquest
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | ||
| 1 |
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GM | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | FRA | 2838 |
| 2 |
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GM | Aronian Levon | ARM | 2767 |
| 3 |
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GM | Caruana Fabiano | USA | 2765 |
| 4 |
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GM | Navara David | CZE | 2758 |
| 5 |
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GM | Dubov Daniil | RUS | 2747 |
| 6 |
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GM | Jobava Baadur | GEO | 2731 |
| 7 |
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GM | Korobov Anton | UKR | 2718 |
| 8 |
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GM | Fedoseev Vladimir | RUS | 2716 |
| 9 |
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GM | Svidler Peter | RUS | 2709 |
| 10 |
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GM | Ponomariov Ruslan | UKR | 2703 |
| 11 |
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GM | Xiong Jeffery | USA | 2699 |
| 12 |
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GM | Abdusattorov Nodirbek | UZB | 2690 |
| 13 |
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GM | Sarana Alexey | RUS | 2689 |
| 14 |
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GM | Swiercz Dariusz | USA | 2689 |
| 15 |
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GM | Adly Ahmed | EGY | 2683 |
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