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The Mikhail Tal Memorial 2007 |
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Tuesday, 20 November 2007 |
 From 9 to 23 Nov Moscow hosts the second Mikhail Tal Memorial. This year three major contests will take place within the framwork of the event viz., a round-robin classical chess tournament of category 20 (with the average rating of 2742), the World Blitz Championship and an exhibition ''advanced chess'' match between Vishi Anand and Vladimir Kramnik.
The round-robin tournament, where Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine, 2787), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2785), Peter Leko (Hungary, 2755), Shakhriar Mamedyarov (Azerbajan, 2752), Alexei Shirov (Spain, 2739), Boris Gelfand (Israel, 2752), Gata Kamsky (the USA, 2724), Evgeny Alekseyev (Russia, 2716), Magnus Karlsen (Norway, 2714), and Dmitry Jakovenko (Russia, 2710) are taking part, started on 10 Nov. Each round starts at 3 p.m. The playing days are 10 through 4 and 16 through 19 Nov.
The rate of play is 100 minutes to each player for the first 40 moves plus 50 minutes for the next 20 moves plus 15 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from the first.
Table and results Round 01 review
Round 02 review
Round 03 review
Round 04 review
Round 05 review
Round 06 review
Round 07 review
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