Remembering the eighth world chess champion - GM Mikhail Tal
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Hi everyone,
Mikhail Tal (November 9, 1936 – June 28, 1992) was the great Soviet-Latvian grandmaster who became the eighth World Chess Champion and was known as 'The Magician from Riga' for his very attacking chess. Both The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games (Burgess, Nunn & Emms 2004) and Modern Chess Brilliancies (Evans 1970) include more games by Tal than any other player. Tal was also a highly-regarded chess writer; his professional career was that of a chess journalist.
The Mikhail Tal Memorial is held in Moscow each year since 2006 to honour his memory. He holds the records for both the first and second longest unbeaten streaks in competitive chess history.
The 6th Mikhail Tal Memorial will take place from 16th to 25th November at the Pashkov House, Vozdvizhenka 3/5 in Moscow, Russia. Ten of the world’s top players will compete in the round robin tournament. The average elo as of 23rd September is 2775.
Players:
Mikhail Tal Memorial, winners of the previous editions:
2006 – Levon Aronian, Peter Leko, Ruslan Ponomariov – 5½ /9
2007 – Vladimir Kramnik 6½ /9
2008 – Vassily Ivanchuk 6 /9
2009 – Vladimir Kramnik 6½ /9
2010 – Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin, Mamedyarov – 5½ /9
Hi everyone,
Mikhail Tal (November 9, 1936 – June 28, 1992) was the great Soviet-Latvian grandmaster who became the eighth World Chess Champion and was known as 'The Magician from Riga' for his very attacking chess. Both The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games (Burgess, Nunn & Emms 2004) and Modern Chess Brilliancies (Evans 1970) include more games by Tal than any other player. Tal was also a highly-regarded chess writer; his professional career was that of a chess journalist.
The Mikhail Tal Memorial is held in Moscow each year since 2006 to honour his memory. He holds the records for both the first and second longest unbeaten streaks in competitive chess history.
The 6th Mikhail Tal Memorial will take place from 16th to 25th November at the Pashkov House, Vozdvizhenka 3/5 in Moscow, Russia. Ten of the world’s top players will compete in the round robin tournament. The average elo as of 23rd September is 2775.
Players:
- Viswanathan Anand (India) – World Champion and winner of the recent Botvinnik Memorial
- Magnus Carlsen (Norway) – currently topping the FIDE elo list, this year winner in Biel and co-winner in Bazna Kings
- Levon Aronian (Armenia) – World team champion with Armenia
- Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) – Former World Champion, recently winner of the super tournament in Dortmund
- Sergey Karjakin (Russia) – Co-winner in 2011 Bazna Kings
- Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) – Winner of 2011 Capablanca Memorial, bronze medalist of the 2011 World Cup, World Championship Candidate
- Hikaru Nakamura (USA) – Winner of 2011 Tata Steel in Wijk aan Zee
- Boris Gelfand (Israel) – Winner of the Candidate Matches, World Championship finalist
- Peter Svidler (Russia) – Six-times Russian champion, winner of the World Cup, World Championship Candidate
- Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) – 2010 European and Russian champion
Mikhail Tal Memorial, winners of the previous editions:
2006 – Levon Aronian, Peter Leko, Ruslan Ponomariov – 5½ /9
2007 – Vladimir Kramnik 6½ /9
2008 – Vassily Ivanchuk 6 /9
2009 – Vladimir Kramnik 6½ /9
2010 – Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin, Mamedyarov – 5½ /9
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6 Comments:
At November 9, 2011 at 9:10 AM ,
Amrit Puri Knights Chess Club New Delhi said...
This is going to be the strongest tournament surely in quite some time. Cannot wait for it to begin. Quite a chess-filled month it will be what with Koneru and Yifan also beginning. The European team is great fun too.
At November 9, 2011 at 10:33 AM ,
Elohim Andromedais said...
Misha was one of the One
At November 9, 2011 at 11:24 AM ,
Alexis Cochran, New Zealand said...
It's going to be one tournament to remember - everyone is there - well almost.
At November 9, 2011 at 11:36 AM ,
Saira Fernandes, Madrid said...
We have both Kasparov pupils there - Oh boy
At November 10, 2011 at 4:51 AM ,
Sebastian Wolff, NY said...
it's a world championship!
At November 10, 2011 at 7:35 AM ,
Keith Schmidt, Berlin said...
Also carlsen won grand slam masters - sao paulo-bilbao right? I am so desperate for the Tal Memorial to begin. The event of the year surely!
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