• The Tal Memorial is an annual chess tournament played in Moscow from 2006 to 2018 with the exception of 2015, to honour the memory of the former World...
    48 KB (1,152 words) - 13:19, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mikhail Tal
    November 2018. In addition, Tal was a highly regarded chess writer. Tal died on 28 June 1992 in Moscow, Russia. The Mikhail Tal Memorial chess tournament has...
    44 KB (4,813 words) - 09:23, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Magnus Carlsen
    wins Tal Memorial on tiebreak". ChessVibes. 25 November 2011. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2013. "Tal Memorial (2011)"...
    336 KB (24,738 words) - 13:11, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Viswanathan Anand
    Anand defeated Shirov 4½−1½ to win the match (+3−0=3). Tal Memorial 2011: The 6th Tal Memorial tournament took place from 16 to 25 June 2011. The tournament...
    165 KB (16,682 words) - 20:34, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Israel Tal
    Israel Tal (Hebrew: ישראל טל, 13 September 1924 – 8 September 2010), also known as Talik (Hebrew: טליק), was an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) general known...
    11 KB (992 words) - 13:31, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hikaru Nakamura
    to medal. From November 5–14, Nakamura competed in the 2010 Mikhail Tal Memorial in Moscow; the field consisted of world No. 3 Levon Aronian, world No...
    136 KB (12,648 words) - 02:51, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
    (2009, 2013, 2017) with Azerbaijan. He is also a two-time winner at Tal Memorial (2010 joint and 2014 Blitz) and Shamkir Chess (2016 and 2017), as well...
    26 KB (2,226 words) - 19:35, 20 April 2024
  • Look up -tal, Tal, or tal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. TAL or Tal may refer to: Ralph M. Calhoun Memorial Airport (IATA code: TAL), in Tanana,...
    3 KB (364 words) - 17:26, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ian Nepomniachtchi
    Superfinal and the 2010 European Individual titles. He also won the 2016 Tal Memorial and both the 2008 and 2015 Aeroflot Open events. He won the World Team...
    38 KB (3,397 words) - 15:52, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vladimir Kramnik
    Dortmund (classical) 5/7 I 2007 Tal Memorial 6½/9 I 2009 Dortmund 6½/9 I 2009 Zürich (rapidplay) 5/7 I 2009 Tal Memorial 6/9 I 2010 President's Cup in Baku...
    56 KB (6,613 words) - 06:07, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Levon Aronian
    Champion Veselin Topalov. In November 2006 he tied for first in the Tal Memorial chess competition. The April–July 2006 FIDE rating list ranked Aronian...
    58 KB (5,620 words) - 04:33, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peter Leko
    including the annual tournaments at Dortmund, Linares, Wijk aan Zee and the Tal Memorial in Moscow. He won two team silver medals and an individual gold medal...
    36 KB (4,407 words) - 03:10, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fabiano Caruana
    with 5½/7, half point ahead of Peter Leko. June saw him at the 7th Tal Memorial where he finished second with a score of 5½/9 after tiebreak with Teimour...
    67 KB (7,893 words) - 21:48, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vasyl Ivanchuk
    1991, July 1992, October 2007). Ivanchuk has won Linares, Wijk aan Zee, Tal Memorial, Gibraltar Masters and M-Tel Masters titles. He has also won the World...
    29 KB (2,702 words) - 21:33, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peter Svidler
    Yerevan in May and fifth on tiebreaks with 3.5/7 at Vidra Memorial. At the Tal Blitz Memorial just before the Olympiad, he was mid-table with 9.5/18. His...
    75 KB (8,029 words) - 20:42, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boris Gelfand
    Sokolov and Fridman at the Calatrava rapid and shared third place at the Tal Memorial. He competed for Israel at the 2009 Maccabiah Games in Israel. In the...
    24 KB (2,648 words) - 02:09, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for World Blitz Chess Championship
    as the FIDE World Blitz Cup) was held in Moscow, Russia following the Tal Memorial tournament and was re-structured as a 20-player double-round robin with...
    33 KB (2,138 words) - 04:55, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boris Spassky
    public speech at the opening of the Tal Memorial tournament. He said he had "the very brightest memories" of Mikhail Tal and told an anecdote from the 15th...
    84 KB (8,283 words) - 07:43, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ruslan Ponomariov
    conditions. In 2006, he shared first place with Aronian and Peter Leko in the Tal Memorial tournament in Moscow. His second-place finish in the Chess World Cup...
    11 KB (1,148 words) - 21:36, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sergey Karjakin
    place with Vassily Ivanchuk and Ian Nepomniachtchi in the category 22 Tal Memorial in Moscow. In July 2012, Karjakin won the World Rapid Chess Championship...
    42 KB (4,379 words) - 20:43, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of chess games between Anand and Kramnik
    Anand 1995 ½–½ 41 Riga, Tal Memorial D85 Grünfeld Defence [8] 9 Kramnik Anand 1996 0–1 108 Anand Amsterdam, Max Euwe Memorial B36 Sicilian Defence The...
    36 KB (108 words) - 10:02, 30 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for Alexei Shirov
    both players finished on 7½/9. In March 2017, Shirov won the Mikhail Tal Memorial blitz tournament in Jūrmala scoring 9½/11 points. In 2018 and 2019, he...
    14 KB (1,610 words) - 17:19, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Linares International Chess Tournament
    the de facto chess tour, along with the "Tata Steel" (Wijk aan Zee), Tal Memorial and Dortmund events. The Linares tournament began in 1978 and was held...
    53 KB (2,111 words) - 13:03, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Teimour Radjabov
    his fourth consecutive top three finish in Wijk. In the even stronger Tal Memorial (category 22 with an average rating of 2776) he shared second place again...
    43 KB (4,458 words) - 04:54, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sergey Makarichev
    1st= (with Evgeny Sveshnikov) 1983 Novi Sad 1st= 1984 Oslo 2nd= 1992 Tal Memorial (Open) 1st= with Nukhim Rashkovsky and Mikhail Krasenkov "Olimpbase ratings"...
    4 KB (296 words) - 18:26, 6 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fast chess
    there was an event called the World Blitz Championship, held after the Tal Memorial in Moscow in November. It was won by Magnus Carlsen (in 2009) and Levon...
    53 KB (4,879 words) - 04:02, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alexander Morozevich
    ahead of second place. Two months later he shared second place in the Tal Memorial after leading the tournament in early rounds. While officially being...
    11 KB (1,256 words) - 18:29, 6 March 2024
  • with Ilya Merenzon Archived 2016-08-01 at the Wayback Machine (FIDE) Tal Memorial participants announced (Peter Doggers, Chess.com) "FIDE World Chess"...
    7 KB (588 words) - 03:27, 3 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of strong chess tournaments
    Memorial Tal Memorial Tata Steel Chess Tournament Tilburg chess tournament Torre Memorial Trebitsch Memorial Triberg chess tournament Vidmar Memorial Vlissingen...
    72 KB (772 words) - 12:58, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dmitry Andreikin
    Moscow after winning a rapid playoff against five other players. In the Tal Memorial played in June 2013, Andreikin was the lowest rated player, but he went...
    12 KB (1,118 words) - 20:18, 18 June 2024