The Tal Treat
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The Tal Treat

It's not just the chess fraternity that is honoring the late, great Mikhail Tal this year, in what would have been his 75th birthday: the Riga City Council recently named a street in the Latvian capital after the "Magician from Riga".

Meanwhile at the Tal Memorial in Moscow, its not so much a a street as a treat we're getting with some amazing games that even Tal himself would have approved of - none more so than at the end of what was an exciting round three, that saw wins from Peter Svidler, Sergey Karjakin and Levon Aronian; and a truly remarkably complex duel between Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik that ended in a draw.

Alex Yermolinksy's Game of the Day choice though for the round was six-time Russian Champion Svidler's win over Hikaru Nakamura, as the US #1 found the going tough as he was caught in the crossfire of the former's favorite Grunfeld Defense.

After three rounds, there's a four-way tie at the top between Aronian, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Carlsen and Karjakin all on 2/3; whilst at the opposite end of the table, Boris Gelfand, the world championship challenger, finds the going tough follow successive loses, and is deep in the cellar on just half a point.

As predicted, this highlight of the elite calendar is turning into a classic! So why tune-in for the remaining rounds with ICC's extended live coverage of the Tal Memorial each day on Chess.FM! Just sign-up today for ICC by clicking here and catch all the move-by-move action as it unfolds with hosts GMs Yasser Seirawan & Ronen Har-Zvi and their team of grandmaster sidekicks of Alex Yermolinsky, Larry Christiansen, Gregory Kaidanov, Suat Atalik, Robert Hess and David Smerdon.

We'll also have the daily trivia live on the show for membership prizes of one and three months and the Game of the Day (hosted by Alex Yermolinsky) trivia each round with the chance for an ICC member to win a 1-year subscription to New in Chess magazine each day!

Play gets underway each day here on ICC at 6am (final round 3am) - finger TalMemorial11 for further info. Click here to join ICC to catch our live coverage of the Tal Memorial followed by the London Chess Classic - plus access all of our regular daily shows and hundreds of videos in our archives!

Game of the Day

Rd	Date	Host	Preview	Members
3	11/18	GM Alex Yermolinsky "Sweere"
2	11/17	GM Alex Yermolinsky "Sweere"
1	11/16	GM Alex Yermolinsky "Sweere"

Schedule

Date	Host	Analyst
Sat., 19 Nov	GM Ronen Har-Zvi Indiana-Jones	GM Larry Christiansen LarryC
Sun., 20 Nov	GM Yasser Seirawan OM	GM Gregory Kaidanov Kaidanov
Tue., 22 Nov	GM Yasser Seirawan OM	GM Larry Christiansen LarryC
Wed., 23 Nov	GM Yasser Seirawan OM	GM Robert Hess RLH2
Thur., 24 Nov	GM Yasser Seirawan OM	GM Suat Atalik atalik
Fri., 25 Nov	GM Yasser Seirawan OM	GM David Smerdon smurfo

Standings after Round 3

N	Name	FED	FIDE	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	PTS	TPR
1	Aronian, Levon	ARM	2802	.	.	½	.	.	1	.	½	.	.	2	2925
2	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	RUS	2730	.	.	.	.	½	½	.	1	.	.	2	2920
3	Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	2826	½	.	.	.	.	.	.	½	.	1	2	2907
4	Karjakin, Sergey	RUS	2763	.	.	.	.	½	.	.	.	½	1	2	2896
5	Anand, Viswanathan	IND	2811	.	½	.	½	.	.	½	.	.	.	1½	2749
6	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2775	0	½	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	1½	2762
7	Svidler, Peter	RUS	2755	.	.	.	.	½	0	.	.	1	.	1½	2781
8	Kramnik, Vladimir	RUS	2800	½	0	½	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	2661
9	Nakamura, Hikaru	USA	2758	.	.	.	½	.	.	0	.	.	½	1	2629
10	Gelfand, Boris	ISR	2744	.	.	0	0	.	.	.	.	½	.	½	2509

USCL Final: Chicago Blaze vs. New York Knights

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It's been yet another long and very successful season for theUnited States Chess League- and now we're down to the final two battling it out forthe titlethis coming Sunday, as the Chicago Blaze take on the New York Knights in the final!

Whatever the result, it's bound to be a fitting finale to the season - and we'll have a Chess.FM double bill for the day (Tal Memorial live in the morning) by being on the air from 3pm ICC Server Time for every move of theChicago BlazevsNew York Knightswith our expert commentary team of GMs Ronen Har-Zvi and Alex Yermolinsky.

Chicago Blaze (8.5-1.5) vs. New York Knights (6-4)

Chicago Blaze	Result	Result	New York Knights
GM Mesgen Amanov: 2576	-	-	GM Giorgi Kacheishvili: 2653
GM Dmitry Gurevich: 2547	-	-	IM Irina Krush: 2560
IM Angelo Young: 2415	-	-	SM Matt Herman: 2426
NM Gopal Menon: 2222	-	-	John Fernandez: 2129
Avg Rating: 2440	-	-	Avg Rating: 2442
Chicago Total	0	0	New York Total

GM Joel Benjamin's tribute to the great Vasily Smyslov

GM Joel Benjamin's tribute to the great Vasily Smyslov

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GM Joel Benjamin, in his weekly Chess.Fm show, Game of the Week, pays tribute to the great Vasily Smyslov.

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