Tal Memorial 2016

The event started yesterday with the blitz tournament to determine the places of the players and the pairings. Mamedyarov won with 7.5 points out of 9.

Some blitz games

The pairings of the 1st round

Svidler-Kramnik

Nepomniaschij-Tomashevsky

Aronian-Gelfand

Giri-Anand

Mamedyarov-Li Chao

Official site (in Russian).