The 7th Mikhail Tal Memorial will take place from 7th to 19th June, 2012, in Moscow, Russia.

The RCF reports that Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik have already confirmed their participation. The venue, tournament format and other participants will be announced later.

The previous edition was held in November 2011, but this time the tournament is moved to June. Ilya Levitov mentioned several days ago that RCF is having trouble in planning the calendar as to avoid the clashes with other tournaments and FIDE events.

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, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov – 5½ /9
2011 – Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian – 5½ /9

Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
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