Tal Memorial: Vote For Who Plays!
The 2012 Tal Memorial will be held from 7-19 June in Moscow, and the six confirmed players so far are: Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Lev Aronian, Teimour Radjabov, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana.
Another four places have to be filled, but this year the organisers have decided to let the great chess public decide who will fill ONE of the remaining coveted entry spots.
Before you get carried away thinking you can vote for yourself or your best mate 
, the choice must be made from a list of 13 12 players:
| Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2752 |
| Kamsky, Gata | USA | 2741 |
| Adams, Michael | ENG | 2735 |
| Wang, Hao | CHN | 2733 |
| Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2727 |
| Giri, Anish | NED | 2717 |
| Polgar, Judit | HUN | 2709 |
| Jobava, Baadur | GEO | 2706 |
| Shirov, Alexei | LAT | 2701 |
| Sutovsky, Emil | ISR | 2700 |
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| McShane, Luke J | ENG | 2691 |
| Hou, Yifan | CHN | 2639 |
Voting is now open, and will continue until 15:00 UTC on 15 March.
To cast your vote go to the Russia Chess website here, and make your choice in the bottom panel of the right hand column.
Who will YOU be voting for?
