Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian tops the Tal Memorial standings along with Russia’s Sergey Karjyakin and Azerbaijan’s Shakhriyar Mamedyarov.

World Blitz Championship follows straight on from this powerful competition on November 16-18, where all of the Tal Memorial players will take part and are joined by 12 more top GMs including Magnus Carlsen, Peter Svidler, Ruslan Ponomariov, Teimour Radjabov, Fabiano Caruana and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.