Tal Memorial 2009
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Mikhail Tal has a special place in the hearts of most chess players. Tal deeply loved the game of chess and believed "Chess, first of all, is Art."
Fittingly, the 2009 Tal Memorial in honor of the "Magician from Riga" is the strongest tournament of the year, and one of the strongest fields of all time. The line-up (in alphabetical order) is: Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Leko, Boris Gelfand, Vassily Ivanchuk, Alexander Morozevich, Peter Svidler and Ruslan Ponomariov. The main event will be followed also by the World Blitz Championship.
There will be extended live coverage of the Tal Memorial each day here on Chess.FM. Just sign-up today for ICC and you can sit back and watch all the action from one of the strongest tournaments of all-time, as hosts Mig Greengard & Macauley Peterson
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(who will also be in Moscow filming the second half for ICC) will be joined for move-by-move commentary from our expert grandmaster team of Joel Benjamin, Larry Christiansen, Nick De Firmian, Gregory Kaidanov and Ronen Har-Zvi.
We'll also have the daily New In Chess trivia and ICC Game of the Day trivia (see below). Play gets underway each day here on ICC at 7am - finger TalMemorial09 for further info. Official site: http://www.russiachess.org/ |
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Name |
T |
FED |
FIDE |
DOB |
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Anand, Viswanathan |
g |
IND |
2788 |
1969 |
| 2 |
Aronian, Levon |
g |
ARM |
2773 |
1982 |
| 3 |
Carlsen, Magnus |
g |
NOR |
2772 |
1990 |
| 4 |
Kramnik, Vladimir |
g |
RUS |
2772 |
1975 |
| 5 |
Leko, Peter |
g |
HUN |
2762 |
1979 |
| 6 |
Gelfand, Boris |
g |
ISR |
2756 |
1968 |
| 7 |
Ivanchuk, Vassily |
g |
UKR |
2756 |
1969 |
| 8 |
Morozevich, Alexander |
g |
RUS |
2750 |
1977 |
| 9 |
Svidler, Peter |
g |
RUS |
2741 |
1976 |
| 10 |
Ponomariov, Ruslan |
g |
UKR |
2741 |
1983 |
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  'New in Chess' TRIVIA!
ICC and New in Chess present The
XI 'New in Chess' Trivia Contest, where each day an ICC member will win a 1 year subscription to NIC! |
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Game of the Day Trivia!
ICC presents the Game of the Day e-mail trivia, where each day an ICC member will win a a 6 month membership extension. |
The Transatlantic Cup
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The fourth international match between The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States and the University of Belgrade in Serbia takes place Friday, 6th November 2009. This match represents the merging of modern technology, ancient strategies, diverse cultural heritages, and the meeting of some of the finest young academic chess-minds of their generation.
The 16-board match, featuring many young masters, has become something of a tradition here on ICC, and will again be broadcast live on ICC. Play gets underway on Friday, 6th November at 1pm ICC time. For further information on the full line-up please go to the official program for the match in pdf below.
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