Concurrently with the FIDE World Championship Match between Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand, the Russian Chess Federation will hold Mikhail Tal Memorial on 13-14th November in Sochi.

Mikhail Tal Memorial will be a 12-player double round robin tournament with the time control 4′+2”.

The playing venue will be the 2nd floor of the Sochi Media Center in Adler. The 1st round will commence on 13th November at 15:00. The second leg will start on 14th November from 11:30.

The total prize fund is 100,000 USD, with 20,000 USD reserved for the winner.

Chessdom.com is exclusively publishing the list of participants:

Alexander Grischuk

Vladimir Kramnik

Boris Gelfand

Peter Leko

Alexander Morozevich

Ernesto Inarkiev

Sergey Karjakin

Ian Nepomniachtchi

Peter Svidler

Alexandra Kosteniuk

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Evgeny Tomashevsky