MOSCOW, NOVEMBER 7, NOYAN TAPAN. The highest, 20-class international chess tournament dedicated to the memory of former world champion Mikhail Tal started on November 6 in Moscow. Ten participants of the tournament are grand masters and their average rating is 2727. In the first tour, representative of Armenia, olympic champion and winner of world cup, Levon Aronian defeated Morozevich (Russia). Gelfand and Ponomaryov also gained victories. The rest of the games of the tour ended in a draw.

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