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The Tal Memorial, which will take place from November 4th to 19th, is the strongest tournament of the year, and at category 21 (average Elo 2764) one of the strongest of all time. It is a ten-player round robin with classical time controls. The first four games take place in the National Hotel (Mokhovaya Street D15), the last five in the mall GUM (Red Square 3). The games start at 15:00h local Moscow time, which is 13:00h EST (Berlin, Paris), 12:00h London, 7:00 a.m. New York, 5:30 p.m. New Delhi, 11:00 p.m. Sydney. You can find the exact starting time at your location here. The World Blitz Championship (see below) takes part after the main event, from November 16-18 2009 in GUM.
Venue of the second half of the Tal Memorial 2009 and the World Blitz Champion:
the department store "Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin" or GUM (pronounced
"goom") on the Red Square in Moscow [Photo Wikipedia]
WRn |
Player | Nat. |
Rtng |
DoB |
2 |
Magnus Carlsen | NOR |
2801 |
1990 |
3 |
Viswanathan Anand | IND |
2788 |
1969 |
4 |
Levon Aronian | ARM |
2786 |
1982 |
5 |
Vladimir Kramnik | RUS |
2772 |
1975 |
7 |
Boris Gelfand | ISR |
2758 |
1968 |
8 |
Peter Svidler | RUS |
2754 |
1976 |
9 |
Peter Leko | HUN |
2752 |
1979 |
10 |
Alexander Morozevich | RUS |
2750 |
1977 |
12 |
Vassily Ivanchuk | UKR |
2739 |
1969 |
13 |
Ruslan Ponomariov | UKR |
2739 |
1983 |
Category XXI – Average Elo
2763.9 |
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This will be held on November 16, 17 and 18 in the showroom of GUM. A total of 22 grandmaster will take part. They include the ten participants of the Tal Memorial, plus the following players:
| Qualifiers Aeroflot Blitz | Invitees | ||
| Sergey Karjakin | Anatoly Karpov | 12th World Champion | |
| Vugar Gashimov | Alexandra Kosteniuk | Women's World Champion | |
| Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | Leinier Dominguez | Current World Blitz Champion | |
| Evgeny Bareev | Alexander Grischuk | 2006 World Blitz Champion | |
| Vladislav Tkachiev | Dmitri Jakovenko | ||
| Zhou Jianchao | Judit Polgar |
The games of the Tal Memorial and, if they are available, of the World Blitz Championship, will be broadcast live on the Playchess server, which during the event is expected to celebrate an impressive anniversary: 400 million games played online – you better believe it. Currently the number is 397,280,837 games (at 00:00h on November 5th 2008). The player with the most games is a member who created his account in 2004 and has played 199,404 games. Come to think he will celebrate an anniversary soon too...
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Links
The games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download the free PGN reader ChessBase Light, which gives you immediate access. You can also use the program to read, replay and analyse PGN games. New and enhanced: CB Light 2009! |
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