The Tal Memorial Rapid featured a stellar 10-player field competing for $130,000, with $25,000 as the first prize. The time control was 25 minutes with a 10-second increment.
There were two former world champions — Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand, two former challengers — Boris Gelfand and Sergei Karjakin, four candidates — Peter Svidler, Alexander Grischuk, Hikaru Nakamura and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. The young Russian stars, Daniil Dubov and Ian Nepomniahtchi completed the field. The blitz that followed was a 14-player event with Vladimir Fedoseev, ...
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First Published: Fri, March 09 2018. 21:05 IST
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