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The elite Tata Steel tournaments in Wijk aan Zee are underway and take place from January 13-29, with two main tournaments, the Masters with both Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin as headliners, as well as Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Baskaran Adhiban, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Richard Rapport, Dmitri Andreikin, Wei Yi, Pavel Eljanov, and Loek van Wely. All rounds in Wijk aan Zee begin at 1.30pm, except for the last round on 29 January 2017, which begins at 12.00pm. Both rounds on the Chess On Tour days start at 2.00pm.
Full report with grandmaster annotations to follow...
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Round 8 - Sunday, January 22 | ||
| Aronian, L. |
1-0 |
Giri, A. |
| Rapport, R. |
1-0 |
Carlsen, M. |
| Van Wely, L. |
½-½ |
Nepomniachtchi, I. |
| Harikrishna, P. |
½-½ |
Wei, Y. |
| Adhiban, B. |
1-0 |
Andreikin, D. |
| Eljanov, P. |
½-½ |
Wojtaszek, R. |
| Karjakin, S. |
½-½ |
So, W. |
The game of the day, or result of the day, however you look at it, it was astonishing. Speculating on how or why suggest mind-reading abilities we do not profess to have, but the fact is the game was not decided by a single blunder. It was not a simple, involuntary act of seppuku.
Instead it looked more like a lemmings rush towards a cliff as he flung himself... in chess terms of course
Consider the engine evaluation graph. Notice how it gradually climbs in the space of five moves from move 22 to 27, from equal, to dead lost.
This opened the way for his rivals, and one nearly took advantage of it: Pavel Eljanov. Once again he was presented with a chance to win outright and missed it, allowing a counter tactic by the Polish GM. To be fair the position was a mess, with three connected passed pawns far advaced on the queenside, and distractions were all over the board.
The quickest win of the day, Levon Aronian swept past Anish Giri as if he were barely an afterthought
Adhiban has certainly been a newfound terror for openings, with choices that promise anything but the usual elite GM fare. It started with 1.e4 e5 2. Nc3, almost daring Black to enter a Vienna, but Andreikin declined, and a Closed Sicilian was the result. It didn't help and the Indian notched another win.
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Round 8 - Sunday, January 22 | ||
| Grandelius, N. |
½-½ |
Hansen, E. |
| Dobrov, V. |
1-0 |
Tingjie, L. |
| Lu, S. |
½-½ |
Xiong, J. |
| Jones, G. |
½-½ |
l'Ami, E. |
| Guramishvili, S. |
½-½ |
van Foreest, J. |
| Smirin, I |
½-½ |
Ragger, M. |
| Tari, A. |
½-½ |
Bok, B. |
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