Tal Memorial 2009

The Tal Memorial 2009 will be one of the strongest tournaments of recent times. With 8 of the world's top 10 participating. To win this tournament will be an incredible feat. Let's just hope that the players come to fight. Usually in a tournament this strong there is an very high draw percentage. Morozevich, Ivanchuk and Carlsen will come to play. It will be hard to predict the mindset of the other players. Anand has an upcoming World Championship title defense, Kramnik can win this tournament if he decides he wants to, or you can expect an equal to +1 score if he is just looking for an equal result. Aronian is the man to beat lately. Gelfand, Leko, and Svidler you can expect many draws from an they will be happy with and equal score. Ponomariov has not been playing enough chess lately to be able to compete in such a strong event. I will be very surprised if one of the top 4 seeds do not win this event. If Carlsen can pull off another performance like he did in Nanjing, he will be without doubt the world #1. 


Viswanathan Anand 2788
Levon Aronian 2773
Magnus Carlsen 2772
Vladimir Kramnik 2772
Peter Leko 2762
Vassily Ivanchuk 2756
Boris Gelfand 2756
Alexander Morozevich 2750
Peter Svidler 2741
Ruslan Ponomariov 2741

Ray Robson America's Newest GM! Go Ray!

Ray Robson is now Grandmaster Robson. Congratulations Ray! Ray made his 3rd and final GM norm in Montevideo, Uruguay this weekend. Ray at 14 is now the youngest ever GM to play for America. He will turn 15 this month on the 25th. It will be interesting to see the changes in him now that he is a GM.

Next tournament November 14th

Next PCS tournament will be November 14th at D.S.A.

Thank you!

Change of Date Grand Prix 2

PCS Tournament 2 has been officially changed from November 21st to November 14th. Please make a note of it. We hope to see you all there.

PCS GP 1 Results

We will like to thank Jon Altoff and DSA for a very successful first tournament. Thank you all again for your continuos support.

Below are the results of the Top winners, congratulations!

K3 Top 5 Individual

1 VICTOR WANG SMITH

2 GABRIEL LEE CORALR

3 DAVID MEDINA BISCAY

4 ANNAMARIA NURYASIN BISCAY

5 ALEXANDER MEDINA BISCAY

K5 Top 5 Individual

1 SEBASTIAN LOJANO USA

2 EMMANUEL TAGUIAM BAYHAR

3 AJAY SUHKAWANI EVERGL

4 LUCCIANO SEPULVEDA DSA

5 ETHAN SANJURJO EVERGL

K8 Top 5 Individual

1 JOAQUIN MAGGI DORALM

2 FRANK HUASER OLSEN

3 STANELY PESCADOR FLAGLE

4 JOSE MACHADO BISCAY

5 SANTIAGO MUNOZ DSA

K12 Top 5 Individual

1 JAVIER VALENTIN TERRA

2 ABELARDO MANTALVO FERGUS

3 BRUNO MAGGI RONALD

4 ARIEL NUNEZ NAUTIL

5 JOSE CASTRO RONALD

Top Teams

K3

1 BISCAYNE

2 JOHN SMITH

3 BAY HARBOR

4 CORAL

5 EVERGLADES

K5

1 DSA

2 EVERGLADES

3 BAY HARBOR

K8

1 HIALEAH GARDEN

2 DORAL MIDDLE

3 DSA

4 OLSEN

5 BAYHAR

K12

1 RONALD REAGAN

2 TERRA

3 FERGUSON

4 NAUTILUS

See you all again in November!

PCS GP 1 Kicks off Tomorrow!

Saturday October 10 we kick of the 2009-2010 Grand Prix Season. Don't forget to email your rosters to chessgil@gmail.com. We will begin at 9am sharp. See you tomorrow!