Tal Chess Memorial Round 1 - How Aronian Beat Nakamura

The 7th Tal Chess Memorial began at Pashkov House in Moscow with four of the five chess games ending in decisive results! Alexander Morozevich beat Fabiano Caruana, Alexander Grischuk beat Luke McShane, Teimour Radjabov beat Evgeny Tomashevsky, and Levon Aronian beat Hikaru Nakamura! The only game that was drawn was played out between Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik. 

The Tal Chess Memorial is being held from June 7 to 18. Game days are 8-10, 12-14 and June 16-18 with breaks being on June 11 and 15. The live video broadcasts starts every day at India time 4.30 pm. The time control is as follows: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves of the game and 50 minutes for 20 moves with 15 minutes before the end of the game with an increment of 30 seconds for every move beginning from the first move. 

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Morozevich Wins Tal Chess Memorial Blitz Draw Event

Alexander Morozevich
wins Tal Blitz Event

A unique blitz chess event has been introduced at the 7th Mikhail Tal Chess Memorial this year. The main tournament begins on June 8. However, on June 7, a special blitz chess tournament was organised to decide the first-round pairings. Alexander Morozevich won the blitz event with a nice 6.5 score beating Magnus Carlsen on tiebreak who earned the same number of points. 

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European School Chess Championship in Greece from June 12

Greece is hosting the European School Chess Championship 2012 at the five-star Athos Palace - part of the G Hotels Group chain - in Kallithea, Halkidiki from June 12-21. The G Hotels Group is a leading hotel chain in Greece and includes five resorts. The chess event includes eight age group tournaments (Open U7, Open U9, Girls U9 Open U11, Boys and Girls U13, Open U15, Open U17). More information is available at the official site.

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Karpov, Seirawan Special Chess Exhibition Match at Saint Louis Chess Club from June 9

Grandmasters Anatoly Karpov and Yasser Seirawan will play a special chess exhibition match at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, US, from June 9-13. The chess match includes classical chess, rapid chess, and blitz chess games. 

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Kazan Chess Grand Prix for Women from June 9 with Hou Yifan, Anna Muzychuk, Koneru Humpy as Top Seeds

Women's World Chess Champion Hou Yifan of China top seed in Kazan Women's Chess Grand Prix - 4th stage

Apart from the 7th Mikhail Tal Chess Memorial that begins today, we have another big chess event beginning in Kazan, Russia from June 9. It is the Women's Chess Grand Prix - fourth in the series of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011-2012. Twelve top women chess players of the world are taking part in the round robin event including the current Women's World Chess Champion Hou Yifan of China. 

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Carlsen Chess Win in Last Round vs Nakamura @ Tal Chess Memorial 2011

On the eve of the 7th Tal Chess Memorial to be played in Moscow from June 7, we have two delightful tweets going around. These are by @MagnusCarlsen - Back in Moscow for the Tal Memorial. Excited to be fighting against the best in the world after a long break! and @GMHikaru - Farewell New York! Privet, Moscow!

The line-up at the event is a dream and could very well pass off as a mini-world chess championship round-robin tournament. You can read our previous post (Tal Chess Memorial With Carlsen, Aronian, Nakamura, Kramnik Begins in Moscow June 7) about tournament details. For this report we have Magnus Carlsen's last round victory over Hikaru Nakamura in the 6th Mikhail Tal Chess Memorial in 2011. You can check out the game in our Chess King applet. Carlsen's win with Black over Nakamura had helped him tie for first with Levon Aronian who was already on fire by having played some amazing games at the event. Eventually, Magnus Carlsen won on tiebreak - thanks to this win over Nakamura. GM Nakamura has just won the US Chess Championship 2012 and would be looking to get even.

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World Chess Championship 2013 - Who Will Challenge Vishy? Will Chennai be the Venue?

Boris Gelfand-Viswanathan Anand Photo:
Official World Chess Championship 2012 Website.

World Chess Championship 2012 in Moscow generated enough excitement that chess lovers already want to know details of the next world chess championship! For now, the latest update is that the World Chess Championship 2013 could be held by Fide in October-November 2013.

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Mayors Chess Cup with Belarus GM Alexei Aleksandrov as Top Seed from June 7 in Mumbai

Mayors Chess Cup: GM Alexei Aleksandrov of Belarus (2606) returns to Mumbai this week to defend his title from June 7 at what is going to be India's highest-ever prize money tournament. He is also going to be the top seed at the event. India's GM B Adhiban (2555) is the top seed among Indian players at the event. 

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