On October 5-18, Mikhail Tal Memorial 2010 will be held in Moscow.

The playing venue of the memorial tournament will be held in the GUM in Moscow. Live games will start every day at 4:00 p.m. Yerevan time. November 9 is a rest day.

Levon Aronian (Armenia, 2801), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2791), Alexander Grischuk (Russia, 2771), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan, 2763), Sergey Karjakin (Russia, 2760), Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine, 2742), Boris Gelfand (Israel, 2741), Hikaru Nakamura (USA, 2741), Alexei Shirov (Spain, 2735) and Wang Hao (China, 2727) will participate in the memorial.

On November 16-18, the World Blitz Championship 2010 will be held after the Tal Memorial.

Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2802), Levon Aronian (Armenia, 2801), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2791), Alexander Grischuk (Russia, 2771), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan, 2763), Sergey Karjakin (Russia, 2760), Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraiine, 2744), Teimur Rajabov (Azerbaijan, 2744), Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine, 2742), Boris Gelfand (Israel, 2741), Hikaru Nakamura (USA, 2741), Peter Svedler (Russia, 2722), Sergei Movsesian (Slovakia, 2721), Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia, 2720), Fabiano Caruana (Italy, 2709), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France, 2703), Dmitry Andreikin (Russia, 2683), Rauf Mamedov (Azerbaijan, 2660), Boris Grachev (Russia, 2654), Boris Savchenko (Russia, 2632) will participate in the championship.