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Tal Memorial Sochi 2014
There will be a two-day 22-round blitz tournament in honour of Mikhail Tal during the World Championship in Sochi. The first round starts Thursday, Nov. 13, a rest-day in the WCC. The second starts and presumably ends before Game 5.
There is a 5-minute delay between the rounds, and there are 15-minute breaks after rounds 6 and 18.
The time control is 4 minutes plus 2 seconds per move.
The prize fund is $100,000.
The participants:
1. Ian Nepomniachtchi, 2. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, 3. Alexander Morozevich, 4. Vladimir Kramnik, 5. Peter Svidler, 6. Evgeny Tomashevsky, 7. Alexander Grischuk, 8. Boris Gelfand, 9. Sergey Karjakin, 10. Peter Leko, 11. Ernesto Inarkiev, 12. Alexandra Kosteniuk.
The first round pairings:
Nepomniachtchi-Kosteniuk, Mamedyarov-Inarkiev, Morozevich-Leko, Kramnik-Karjakin, Svidler-Gelfand, Tomashevsky-Grischuk.
Svidler plays 22 rounds and then goes back to commentating on the WCC. Boris Gelfand has been playing tournament games since Baku, October 2. They are paired in the first round.
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There is an article by Peter Doggers at
http://www.chess.com/news/mikhail-ta...-in-sochi-6468
with photos of Tal and his daughter Jeanna.
The article says:
“Jeanna Tal is an energetic woman in her early 40s. She shares with her father the edgy face, unwieldy black hair and small stature. As a teenager she and her mother emigrated to Germany, where they lived near Cologne. Jeanna studied acting and music, and she performed occasionally on stage. To make ends meet she had to take other jobs.
Seven years ago she decided to go back to Riga. It was a lucky move. She established herself as a vocal teacher and started to take care of her father's heritage.
She fondly remembers his affectionate good mood and how without pretensions he was always open for a chat with anyone. Chess was his job, she says, otherwise he was different from other chess players Jeanna got to know.”
Mikhail Tal would have been 78 on November 9.
There will be a two-day 22-round blitz tournament in honour of Mikhail Tal during the World Championship in Sochi. The first round starts Thursday, Nov. 13, a rest-day in the WCC. The second starts and presumably ends before Game 5.
There is a 5-minute delay between the rounds, and there are 15-minute breaks after rounds 6 and 18.
The time control is 4 minutes plus 2 seconds per move.
The prize fund is $100,000.
The participants:
1. Ian Nepomniachtchi, 2. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, 3. Alexander Morozevich, 4. Vladimir Kramnik, 5. Peter Svidler, 6. Evgeny Tomashevsky, 7. Alexander Grischuk, 8. Boris Gelfand, 9. Sergey Karjakin, 10. Peter Leko, 11. Ernesto Inarkiev, 12. Alexandra Kosteniuk.
The first round pairings:
Nepomniachtchi-Kosteniuk, Mamedyarov-Inarkiev, Morozevich-Leko, Kramnik-Karjakin, Svidler-Gelfand, Tomashevsky-Grischuk.
Svidler plays 22 rounds and then goes back to commentating on the WCC. Boris Gelfand has been playing tournament games since Baku, October 2. They are paired in the first round.
________
There is an article by Peter Doggers at
http://www.chess.com/news/mikhail-ta...-in-sochi-6468
with photos of Tal and his daughter Jeanna.
The article says:
“Jeanna Tal is an energetic woman in her early 40s. She shares with her father the edgy face, unwieldy black hair and small stature. As a teenager she and her mother emigrated to Germany, where they lived near Cologne. Jeanna studied acting and music, and she performed occasionally on stage. To make ends meet she had to take other jobs.
Seven years ago she decided to go back to Riga. It was a lucky move. She established herself as a vocal teacher and started to take care of her father's heritage.
She fondly remembers his affectionate good mood and how without pretensions he was always open for a chat with anyone. Chess was his job, she says, otherwise he was different from other chess players Jeanna got to know.”
Mikhail Tal would have been 78 on November 9.
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