The Mikhail Tal Memorial will take place in Moscow between November 6-16. The classical chess event is a category 20 round robin with 10 players: Carlsen, Shirov, Grischuk, Ponomariov, Aronian, Leko, Gelfand, Mamedyarov, Svidler and Morozevich.
There will be also a blitz tournament on November 18 and 19 with some big names such as Anand, Karpov, Judit and Kasimdzhanov, etc.
Here is the website.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Information is very limited, so far only this post http://chesslodge.blogspot.com/2006/10/mikhail-tal-memorial.html
This tournament looks awesome, it’s another chance for Carlsen to prove himself on the big stage (I’d really like to see the Carlsen-Ponomariov game!)
I wish Radjabow was in this one
Carlsen can become the strongest player in history – being 2700 at under 16 gives him all the time in the world. And at the speed he gains rating points? Watch out!
Does anyone know why eg. Anand and Polgar are not participating in the classical part ?
It’s embarrassing to have a woman or Indian win in Russian soil 🙂
If you want to read something about this tournament in Spanish, there is an article in this blog:
compuntoes
This is the link to the article.
Carlsen can become the strongest player in history – being 2700 at under 16 gives him all the time in the world.
Rating is no the deciding factor. RJ Fischer at 14 was championship pretender, it means he was at top 10 at this time.
Carlsen is far from being at top ten at 14 :-).