2019-07-16

Tal Memorial Rapid 2019

Tal Memorial Rapid 2019 is an 11 rounds rapid tournament 15+5, held in Riga, Latvia on July 16th and 17th 2019.
Time control: the players have 15 minutes for a game with 5 seconds increment from move 1.

Official site

Schedule in UTC:
Round 1    Jul 16, 2019    10:00   
Round 2    Jul 16, 2019    11:00   
Round 3    Jul 16, 2019    12:00   
Round 4    Jul 16, 2019    13:00   
Round 5    Jul 16, 2019    14:00   
Round 6    Jul 16, 2019    15:00   
Round 7    Jul 17, 2019    08:00   
Round 8    Jul 17, 2019    09:00   
Round 9    Jul 17, 2019    10:00   
Round 10    Jul 17, 2019    11:00   
Round 11    Jul 17, 2019    12:00   
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Watch the games of the Tal Memorial Rapid 2019 with computer analysis LIVE on ChessBomb.


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The tournament has been held in Moscow annually since 2006 to honour the memory of the Soviet Latvian chess Grandmaster Mikhail Tal (1936 –1992), the eighth world chess champion (from 1960 to 1961).

You can see games from previous issues of the tournament with computer analysis at ChessBomb:
Mikhail Tal Blitz Cup 2018
Tal Memorial Rapid 2018 (Winner Vishwanathan Anand)
Tal Memorial Rapid 2017 (Winner Onischuk Vladimir)
Tal Memorial Blitz 2017 (Winner Shirov Alexei))
Tal Memorial 2016 (Winner Ian Nepomniachtchi)
Tal Memorial Blitz 2016
Tal Memorial Blitz 2014 (Winner Shakhriyar Mamedyarov)