Tal Memorial 2009
Most of the top rated players, 5-14th November in Moscow, Russia
Report by Chessdom.com
The 2009 Tal Memorial will take place on 5-14th November in Moscow, Russia. According to the September rating list, ten out of thirteen top players, including the reigning World Champion Viswanathan Anand, will participate. Veselin Topalov, Teimour Radjabov and Dmitry Jakovenko are not among the invited.
Levon Aronian, winner of the FIDE Grand Prix and Grand Slam Final, and probably the most successful tournament player in 2009, is making a comeback after the shared first place in the 2006 event. Norwegian wonderboy Magnus Carlsen will also be there.
Vassily Ivanchuk will defend the last year’s trophy, and Peter Leko and Boris Gelfand are returning to play in their third Tal Memorial.
Former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik and 2007 Tal Memorial winner is leading the Russian contingent. Besides him, Peter Svidler is participating and Alexander Morozevich was finally confirmed. The last to be added to the starting lineup is Ruslan Ponomariov.
Chessdom.com will provide live game commentary
Magnus will rule Tal Memorial.
Holy Smoke! What a field. This is THE tournament of the year. No doubt. This will be the real test of Carlsparovs progress till now. Margins are small at this high level, so impossible to guess who will win in the end. Also, its not a double round, so drawing of colours might be a factor X.
I haven’t been this excited about a tourney for some time. Let’s see some fighting chess!
Susan according to my Ultracalculations !! Leko coastin though games! hehe and still 2750+ thats amazing huh? hehe
why wasn’t topalov invited?
I expected Kramnik to score well. And Carlsen, of course. Not Anand because of forthcoming match with Topalov. Probably first two places for Kramnik and Carlsen. Maybe Aronian too.
It is obvious that Kramnik will repeat what he did at Dortmund and win here. Since FIDE stripped him of his World Championship title in Mexico City, forcing him to play as challenger, he has no choice but to win all the Tournaments he plays in, like Kasparov after 2000 had to do the same to the world who the best player is.