Valley Memorial

Mikhail Tal, 1982

The Tal Memorial is a chess tournament that has been held in Moscow in honor of Mikhail Tal since 2006 . Since 2011, the tournaments have each reached category 21, making them one of the best-attended tournaments ever.

Tournament mode

Ten invited grandmasters play in a one- round round -robin tournament , initially with the classic time control (100 minutes for 40 moves, 50 minutes for the following 20 moves and 15 minutes for the rest of the game, plus 30 seconds per move from the start of the game). Draw offers before move 41 are not allowed, but in 2013 a number of games before move 40 ended with a draw (by repetition of moves ).

In 2013, the prize money totaled 100,000 euros , 30,000 of which went to the tournament winner.

In 2014 the Valley Memorial was held as a blitz chess tournament in Sochi .

The tenth valley memorial (with a classic time to think about it) took place in September 2016.

The 11th Tal Memorial took place from March 2nd to 5th, 2018. First, ten invited grandmasters played a rapid chess tournament (25 minutes to think about plus 10 seconds per move). Then a blitz tournament was played in which four other players took part.

winner

year	Tournament winner	Points
2006	Levon Aronjan Péter Lékó Ruslan Ponomarjow	5.5
2007	Vladimir Kramnik	6.5
2008	Vasyl Ivanchuk	6th
2009	Vladimir Kramnik	6th
2010	Levon Aronjan Sergei Karjakin Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	5.5
2011	Magnus Carlsen Levon Aronjan	5.5
2012	Magnus Carlsen	5.5
2013	Boris Gelfand	6th
2014 (Blitz)	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	16
2016	Jan Nepomniachtchi	6th
2018 (Rapid)	Viswanathan Anand	6th
2018 (Blitz)	Sergei Karjakin	10

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chessvibes.com , June 11, 2013
2. ↑ The Week in Chess , November 14, 2014
3. ↑ The Week in Chess , September 26, 2016

Web links

• Tal Memorial 2013 on TeleSchess with all games