That is to say, Wednesday. This year's ridiculously strong edition of the Tal Memorial, taking place in Moscow, Russia, features the following players (ratings and their pairings numbers are given in parentheses):
Magnus Carlsen (2826, 10)
Viswanathan Anand (2811, 4)
Levon Aronian (2802, 1)
Vladimir Kramnik (2800, 2)
Vassily Ivanchuk (2775, 3)
Sergey Karjakin (2763, 7)
Hikaru Nakamura (2758, 5)
Peter Svidler (2755, 8)
Boris Gelfand (2744, 6)
Ian Nepomniachtchi (2730, 9)
The first round pairings (starting time: 3 p.m. Moscow time/12 CET/6 a.m. ET) are as follows:
Predictions, readers?