The 2011 Tal Memorial is taking place in Moscow, Russia from November 16 – 25. For the first time in history four chess players with ratings over 2800 will be competing in the same tournament. The format for the 2011 Tal Memorial is a ten-player round robin which assures that chess enthusiasts will get to see the world’s most elite chess grandmasters compete against eachother. The official website for this event is http://www.russiachess.org/championship/detail/2011/sixth_quot_tal_memorial_quot/. Stay tuned to this blog for complete coverage of the 2011 Tal Memorial chess tournament.
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November 18, 2011 at 1:00 am |
[…] first round of the 2011 Tal Memorial featured two decisive games and plenty of hard fought draws. Ian Nepomniachtchi, the lowest rated […]
November 19, 2011 at 5:18 pm |
[…] Friday came early this year for fans of chess. Three games in round three of the 2011 Tal Memorial were won by black with the remaining two games being drawn. For the uninitiated, playing white in […]