13.11.2009 – Feeling better? Apparently. At last the top seed Magnus Carlsen, 18, has scored a win in this tournament. It came in the form of an explosive English Attack in the Scheveningen, which floored the former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov in 31 moves (actually with a mate in three). With plus one Carlsen has now moved into fourth place, behind Kramnik, Anand and Ivanchuk. Express report.
Tal Memorial 2009
The Tal Memorial, which is taking place from November 4th to 19th, is the strongest
tournament of the year, and at category 21 (average Elo 2764) one of the strongest
of all time. It is a ten-player round robin with classical time controls –
40 moves in two hours, then 20 moves in one hour and then 15 minutes for the
rest of the game with 30 seconds increment per move in this phase. The first
four games take place in the National Hotel (Mokhovaya Street D15), the last
five in the mall GUM (Red Square 3). The games start at 15:00h local Moscow
time, which is 13:00h EST (Berlin, Paris), 12:00h London, 7:00 a.m. New York,
5:30 p.m. New Delhi, 11:00 p.m. Sydney. You can find the exact starting time
at your location .
The World Blitz Championship (see below) will be staged after the main event,
from November 16-18 2009 in GUM.
The games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the
chess server .
If you are not a member you can download the free PGN reader ChessBase
Light, which gives you immediate access. You can also use the program
to read, replay and analyse PGN games. New and enhanced: CB Light 2009!
