The 2011 Tal Memorial Chess Tournament has begun in Moscow. The event runs from November 16th to November 25th in Moscow, Russia. Ten of the strongest chess players in the World are participating in this year's event:
Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen with an elo of 2826 is the highest-rated player in the event. Other players participating (presented in order based upon their elo rating) are:Viswanathan Anand (the current World chess champion whose elo rating is 2811 second-highest-rated player in the World), Levon Aronian ( with an elo rating of 2802 currently the third-highest-rated player in the World), GM Vladimir Kramnik whose elo of 2800 make him the fourth-highest-rated player in the November 2011 FIDE ratings list, GM Vassily Ivanchuk, who is the sixth-highest-rated player in the World with an elo of 2775, GM Sergey Karjakin,who has an elo of 2763, Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura who is the tenth-highest-rated player in the World with an elo of 2758, GM Peter Svidler (elo 2755), GM Boris Gelfand (elo 2744), and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (elo 2730) round out the field for the tournament. The time control for this event is: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, 50 minutes for the next 20 moves, and 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
Here are the results from round one of the tournament:
Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen with an elo of 2826 is the highest-rated player in the event. Other players participating (presented in order based upon their elo rating) are:Viswanathan Anand (the current World chess champion whose elo rating is 2811 second-highest-rated player in the World), Levon Aronian ( with an elo rating of 2802 currently the third-highest-rated player in the World), GM Vladimir Kramnik whose elo of 2800 make him the fourth-highest-rated player in the November 2011 FIDE ratings list, GM Vassily Ivanchuk, who is the sixth-highest-rated player in the World with an elo of 2775, GM Sergey Karjakin,who has an elo of 2763, Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura who is the tenth-highest-rated player in the World with an elo of 2758, GM Peter Svidler (elo 2755), GM Boris Gelfand (elo 2744), and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (elo 2730) round out the field for the tournament. The time control for this event is: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, 50 minutes for the next 20 moves, and 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
Here are the results from round one of the tournament:
Magnus Carlsen Ian Nepomniachtchi Peter Svidler Sergey Karjakin Boris Gelfand
You can play through the moves of all the games for round one by going to the Chessviewer Deluxe Program at the bottom of this blog page.If you do not know how to use Chessviewer Deluxe then please visit the following page first: http://www.chessgames.com/cvdhelp.html
Alternatively you can go to the Chessdom.com website and play through the moves of all of these games using the ChessTempo program. The owner of Chessdom has also incorporated the use of a strong chess engine Stockfish, so you can see where these first round games were won by Nepomniachchi and Ivanchuk. To access the games at Chessdom please click on the following link:
http://www.chessdom.com/tal-memorial-2011-live
These are the pairings for round two of the event:
(the player on the left has the white pieces in the game):
Round 2: Thursday, November 17, 2011 | ||||||
Magnus Carlsen | Boris Gelfand | |||||
Sergey Karjakin | Hikaru Nakamura | |||||
Peter Svidler | Vishy Anand | |||||
Ian Nepomniachtchi | Vassily Ivanchuk | |||||
Levon Aronian | Vladimir Kramnik | |||||
Best wishes to all players for round 2!!
