The 2009 Tal Memorial Starts Tomorrow
The participant list looks like this:
1. Carlsen 2801
2. Anand 2788
3. Aronian 2786
4. Kramnik 2772
5. Gelfand 2758
6. Svidler 2754
7. Leko 2752
8. Morozevich 2750
9. Ivanchuk 2739
10. Ponomariov 2739
It’s a round robin starting in Moscow tomorrow and continuing through the 15th, after which there will be the usual high-prestige blitz tournament. It’s clearly a very strong tournament; the only question is if it will be a bloodthirsty one. (At least half the players are occasionally a bit draw-happy, so we’ll have to see.)
The official site is here, but it’s in Russian. If those of you who can read it can find the first-round pairing information and what time the games start tomorrow, please include it in the comments. (Oddly, the English version of the site – see its upper-right corner – gives Tal Memorial info from 2007. Not very helpful.)
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