Tremendous job by chessvibes today. The analysis was really great.Excellent annotations by Merijn.Keep it this way..

Saw it coming -after Nanjing- and here it is: Live coverage... with expert analysis as a bonus! WOW. Thanks, CHESSVIBES. Go, go go. You're beating Chessgames, Chessbase and ChessOk by a thousand miles.

I logged on to the live site. The game between Carlsen and Kramnik was there (or part of it , at least) and there was no gameboard. Was there a technical problem?

Why is the English part of the website of the organizers not working?

Even better that we have Chessvibes!

@steven: Found it back - it was a comment by mishanp on Dailydirt
http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/2009/07/san-sebastian-09-r6-leaders-...
"The Chesspro summary of Dortmund also had the organiser of the Tal Memorial saying that Leko "wouldn't get away with that" (his quick draws) in Moscow."
Sounds like it was specifically aimed at Leko, but doesn't indicate if he was told so directly. And unlike mishanp, I cannot read the original Russian language source.

Thanks Chessvibes!!

@ Hortensius: What you are asking for already exists at http://www.chessok.com

But I agree with Harish Srinivasan "GM/IM analysis are great and so much more fun". I learn much more from commented games then from "analyzing" games with a comp.

Wow this is great of chessvibes. Unfortunatly i missed it today, but defintly hope to be there with some of the live commentary this week. I think we ( averege club players) can really learn from it. And it is a great tournament, great players.

A suggestion: Is it possible on refresh page (on the live commentary), it loads the same game that I was looking at rather than load the first game?

Another step to perfection! We are eagerly anticipating.
Thanks Peter, though it will undoubtedly come at the expense of work, for many people...
Expecting a close fight Kramnik - Carlsen for 1st place.

It would be nice to see how much time each player has left. Besides that really good transmission. Congratulations ChessVibes!!!!

This live coverage with commentary is exactly what will make chessvibes the best site for chess fans...

Ps. next experiment: Live Rybka analysis???

Games started, Carlsen is playing a 4. Qc2 Nimzo. When does the commentary start?

Can somebody put Rybka's/Fritz's evaluation of the current position from Carlsen - Kramnik here?

Hortensius is suggesting live Rybka analysis. I strongly feel computer analysis is really boring and uninteresting. GM/IM analysis are great and so much more fun. For eg. look at the comment "Kramnik employing Anand's novelty ...Ne4" I am enjoying the chessvibes commentary already.

Thanks chessvibes

Thomas :
where did you read that the organizers warned Leko that short draws were not acceptable ?
Was it a warning in general or specifically for Leko ?

Thank you

@Alexander: See Kasparov's reaction (quoted/disclosed by Mig Greengard on Dailydirt). He was happy that Carlsen got five whites, but not that happy that three of them are against the strongest players who are difficult to beat. He would prefer Carlsen having black in those games "because then those favorites would have to press for a win"!?
But in the comments section, others considered such statements psychological warfare.

Great stuff. Thanks muchly. Chess lovers are now veritably spoiled for quality coverage of top events!

Thats great news. Its tough to improve upon perfection. But chessvibes is at it. :)

Will there be any video reports from the event? or from the blitz event?
It will be great to have videos of the blitz games as the live transmission of the blitz games may not be possible due to DGT issues.

Thanks

Great stuff!
Congratulations!

Thankyou guys - this truly is wonderful!

Very nice, this is great news for chess fans everywhere. BTW, apart from being the strongest in 2009, isn't Tal amongst the stronger tournaments in the last 5 years or so? Almost the entire Top 10 is present.

If you build it they will come:! all power to you.

Thanks guys. Hope it will be English commentary.

Congrats guys, this move may effectively take Chessvibes to the indisputable 1st. place among chess sites, if it's not already there.

When are going you to launch a chess server?

Thanks, congratulations!
No problems with copyrights, right? :-)

Go Moro!
And... Long live Mihail !!!

Go ChessVibes!

1st round pairings:

Carlsen - Kramnik
Morozevich - Leko
Ivanchuk - Anand
Gelfand - Ponomariov
Aronian - Svidler .

Round 1:

Carlsen - Kramnik
Morozevich - Leko
Ivanchuk - Anand
Aronian - Svidler
Gelfand - Ponomariov.

damn, I have to stay at the laboratory for the whole day tomorrow and friday :(

Looking forward to saturday :)

I've dropped Chessbase for you.

If there was a tourney between these 5, who would win: IM Merijn van Delft, GM Sipke Ernst, IM Robert Ris, GM Dimitri Reinderman, and GM Wouter Spoelman ;)

Thank you Chessvibes!

This tournament will be awesome!

@Castro: "No problems with copyright ..."
Don't think so, to my knowledge this was only an issue in events organized by Danailov

Chessvibes simply rules.

Very happy. :-)

Commentary will be in english of course :-)

We're looking forward to it as well, it will be a very exciting tournament! :-)

with all those great players this will become a tournament to remember...

I'm missing VT in this event. Had he been a participant, it would have been the strongest tournament of all times!....Thanks Chessvibes for bringing live telecast...hope it shall withstand the no of hits and does not get clogged!

How do you think you will compare and contrast with GM Christian Bauer who will be at Chessdom? Where do yourecommend watching?

Its impossible to predict who'll win this Tal Memorial, but I'll say Aronian anyway. Along with Carlsen, he's arguably held the best form of 2009 amongst all the elite players.

So far as I'm concerned, the inclusion of Leko, yet again, to such a top level tournament is the only negative. The man's undoubtedly one of the world's strongest, yes, but so often he shows no real fighting spirit. Of course I believe he deserves invitations once in a while, but surely not so many. Others like Jakovenko, Gashimov, Mamedyarov and Dominguez are more worthy in my opinion.

Still, I agree that this should be a very exciting tournament! :D

Excellent!!! Thank you all and can't wait for the start.

Here's a little challenge for the IM's and GM's at Chessvibes. Whilst the Tal Memorial is being played. How about a small daily column on the great Michail Tal?

After all he was one of the greatest players the game has ever seen - there are reasons why they name such a strong tournament after him.

All that's requested is either one of his great games or the Tal combination of the day. You would only need to find nine of them and as everyone knows there is plenty to choose from - I don't think that's too hard of an ask. This is the Tal Memorial, so give the readers of Chessvibes some idea what kind of a player Tal was!

@Crouchyboy: I remember reading that the Tal Memorial organizers were warning Leko that a series of (short) draws - as in Dortmund - would not be acceptable. To Leko's credit, it is not always like that, for example not in the FIDE GP tournaments.

"The rounds begin daily at 15:00 Moscow time which is 13:00 CET"

Just to be sure, 13:00 CET is about 5AM Chicago time correct?

Thanks - Z

Kramnik has a nice start: Carlsen with black, and Anand with white. See where he stands.

@Zee:
See http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/ for info. on the time zones.

I keep surprising about the way chessvibes handles the whole approach of providing chesslovers information about their passion.

1000 bravos for www.chessvibes.com.

Is there anyway i can support this site? Possible to donate?? please let us know

gr

of course your report of nanjing was excellent and im looking forward to this real highlight and its reportation.
thanks,
michael, germany

(german chess-sites are not good enough)

This tournament very intresting! More Intresting if Topalov is are invited!!!!