This Wednesday, play begins in the Pearl Spring tournament in Nanjing, China. The world champion and #1-rated player, Viswanathan Anand, is the star; Magnus Carlsen (world #2 by rating), Veselin Topalov (#5), Wang Yue (#10), Vugar Gashimov (#17) and Etienne Bacrot (#29) participate in this double round-robin that runs through October 30.
After that, from November 5-14, we'll have the Tal Memorial in Moscow. There we'll have the world's #3 and #4, Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik, respectively, along with eight other 2700+ players: Eljanov, Grischuk, Mamedyarov, Gelfand, Shirov, Karjakin, Nakamura and Wang Hao.
Right after that there's the World Blitz Championship (November 16-18) in the same location. All the Tal Memorial participants will play, along with Carlsen, Ponomariov, Svidler, Vachier-Lagrave, Nepomniachtchi, Bu Xiangzhi, Grachev, Rauf Mamedov, Savchenko and three players yet to be chosen. (HT on these two Moscow events to Chess Today.)