Tal Memorial Moscow

Tal Memorial Moscow

The Tal Memorial Tournament takes place in Moscow 9th-19th November 2007. Eight of the ten players have been decided with World Number 2 and 3 Vassily Ivanchuk and Vladimir Kramnik heading the field which includes the up and coming talent Magnus Carlsen for one. The full field is now available . I don't yet have an official site for the event.

This will be followed by the FIDE approved World Blitz Championship which will be a double round robin November 21st-22nd 2007. This will apparently have a big qualification event followed by the final. There is a controversy in that although a number of top players will be seeded straight into the final one of them will not be the defending champion Alexander Grischuk who has been asked to qualify . Although how attractive this event will be to those serious about winning the World Chess Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk (Arrival supposed to be on the 22nd, Opening Ceremony 23rd and Round 1 24th November) is anyone's guess.

Tal Memorial - Moscow - 9th-19th November 2007
No	Name	t	NAT	YroB	oc07
2	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	1969	2787
3	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	1975	2785
5	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	1979	2755
7	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyaz	g	AZE	1985	2752
10	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	1972	2739
11	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	1968	2736
14	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	1974	2724
15	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	1985	2716
17	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	1990	2714
19	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	1983	2710