Tal Memorial 2013 is a chess tournament of the highest (XXII) category [1] , held from June 12 to 23, 2013 in Moscow , at the Digital October Center for New Technologies [2] [3] . The winner of the tournament was Boris Gelfand ( 
), Magnus Carlsen ( 
), the third was Fabiano Caruana ( 
)
Content
- 1 Before the tournament
- 2 Tournament Regulations
- 2.1 Dates
- 2.2 Organizers
- 2.3 Conducting system
- 2.4 Participants
- 2.5 Definition of winners
- 2.6 Prize fund
- 3 Table [8]
- 4 notes
Before the tournament
The vice-president of the Chess Federation of Moscow Sergey Smagin , noting that the composition of the tournament is “very strong and interesting”, identified four favorites [1] :
| ... world ranking leader Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, who plays with pleasure in the Tal memorial, Viswanathan Anand, if he has a game - and in Moscow he usually plays very well, and Sergey Karjakin, who has the strongest motivation to speak successfully |
An expert at the Sport Express newspaper, Yuri Vasiliev, considers Karlsen, Kramnik, Karjakin, and Caruana to be the main favorites: Magnus Carlsen shortly before this lost to Karjakin the first place in the supertournament in Stavanger (Norway) and therefore most likely has a desire to recoup; Vladimir Kramnik twice (like Carlsen) has already won this competition, and Fabiano Caruana shows very great progress [4] . He also noted that the current world champion Vishwanathan Anand has little chance of winning the tournament:
| Nobody has been seriously discussing the tournament chances of the world champion Anand for a long time. Vichy, as the chess world calls him, regularly accepts invitations to tournaments, backed up by solid starting fees, he can sometimes even strain a little and win one or two games. But maybe all 9 games can be ended in a draw, as it was at the Tal Memorial in 2011. The last time, alas, Anand almost always plays half-heartedly, preserving the second half of this same force for the main business in life - preserving the world’s chess crown on his head. |
The chairman of the board of the Russian Chess Federation Ilya Levitov said that the main feature of this tournament was its updated format [5] . The entire room reserved for the competition is divided into two rooms. In the first of these, the parties themselves are held. In the second room, a live video broadcast of the next round is held in high definition format with comments by famous Russian chess experts in an interactive mode (viewers can ask questions directly to commentators). On different days, commentators were Alexander Grischuk , Peter Svidler , Sergey Rublevsky and Sergey Shipov [2] .
Tournament Rules
Dates
The tournament was held from 12 (opening ceremony) to June 24 (departure of participants) 2013 at the Digital October Center for New Technologies . Game days - all days from June 13 to 23, except for 16 and 20 [6] .
Organizers
The general management was provided by the Russian Chess Federation (RCF), the direct conduct of the tournament was the organizing committee and the panel of judges. The chief judge of the competition is the international referee Andrzej Filipowicz ( pl: Andrzej Filipowicz ) ( Poland ). The director of the tournament is Ilya Levitov.
Conduct System
The tournament is held in a round-robin system in 9 rounds in accordance with the FIDE rules. Time control : 1 hour 40 minutes for 40 moves + 50 minutes for 20 moves + 15 minutes until the end of the game with the addition of 30 seconds to each move, starting from the first [6] .
Members
10 chess players took part in the tournament:
- Magnus Carlsen ( Norway , 2868 )
- Vladimir Kramnik ( Russia , 2811)
- Viswanathan Anand ( India , 2783)
- Hikaru Nakamura ( USA , 2775)
- Fabiano Caruana ( Italy , 2774)
- Sergey Karjakin (Russia, 2767)
- Alexander Morozevich (Russia, 2760)
- Boris Gelfand ( Israel , 2744)
- Shahriyar Mamedyarov ( Azerbaijan , 2726)
- Dmitry Andreikin (Russia, 2724)
The draw took place as part of the opening ceremony in the form of a blitz tournament, in which Hikaru Nakamura won (7 points), Viswanathan Anand (6½ points) took the second place, and Vladimir Kramnik (5½) took the third [7] . Players are forbidden to enter into negotiations for a draw before move 40, all non-losing participants are required to comment on their games in the press center after each round [6] .
Winners Determined
In case of equality of points, the winner is determined by the following additional indicators [6] :
- The largest number of parties in black;
- The greatest number of victories;
- The result of a personal meeting;
- Coy coefficient ;
- Berger coefficient .
Prize Fund
| A place | Prize in € |
|---|---|
| one | 30,000 |
| 2 | 20,000 |
| 3 | 15,000 |
| four | 10,000 |
| 5 | 8,000 |
| 6 | 6,000 |
| 7 | 4,000 |
| 8 | 3,000 |
| 9 | 2,500 |
| 10 | 1,500 |
Table [8]
| No. | Participant | A country | one | 2 | 3 | four | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | + | - | = | Glasses | A place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| one | Dmitry Andreikin | Russia | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | one | ½ | ½ | ½ | one | 0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | |
| 2 | Viswanathan Anand | India | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | one | one | 3 | 5 | 3½ | 9 | |
| 3 | Boris Gelfand | Israel | ½ | ½ | ½ | one | ½ | ½ | ½ | one | one | 3 | 0 | 6 | 6 | one | |
| four | Magnus Carlsen | Norway | ½ | one | ½ | one | ½ | one | ½ | 0 | ½ | 3 | one | 5 | 5½ | 2 | |
| 5 | Hikaru Nakamura | USA | ½ | one | 0 | 0 | 0 | one | one | one | 0 | four | four | one | 4½ | 6 | |
| 6 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | Azerbaijan | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | one | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | one | 0 | 8 | 5 | four | |
| 7 | Vladimir Kramnik | Russia | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 10 | |
| 8 | Sergey Karjakin | Russia | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | one | 8 | four | 7 | |
| 9 | Fabiano Caruana | Italy | ½ | one | 0 | one | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | one | 3 | 2 | four | 5 | 3 | |
| 10 | Alexander Morozevich | Russia | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | one | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | one | 3 | 5 | 3½ | 8 |
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 The best chess players in the world will argue for victory at the Mikhail Tal Memorial
- ↑ 1 2 Eighth Tal Memorial Moscow (unavailable link) . Date of treatment June 15, 2013. Archived on June 8, 2013.
- ↑ Eighth Tal Memorial. Live broadcasts
- ↑ Tal Memorial: Four K Factor
- ↑ Ideas for the Tal Memorial
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Regulations on the 8th international chess tournament “Tal Memorial” (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment June 15, 2013. Archived June 26, 2013.
- ↑ Important figures
- ↑ Tal Memorial