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The 76th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament takes place from 10 to 26 January 2014. The top players will compete in two groups (previously there were three), with twelve players in each, instead of fourteen. The structure of the amateur tournaments remains unchanged. Both groups start on January 11th 2014, with all rounds starting at 13:30h (1:30 p.m.) local time, except for the last round on January 26th, which begins at 12:00h. Two rounds will be played in Amsterdam and Eindhoven and will start at 14:00. The time controls are 100 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the remaining moves with 30 seconds cumulative increment for each move starting from the first move.
The amateurs play in the same room as the Masters,
but there is a big divisor between the sections
Spectators watch from every angle possible
Group A: Round 1 - Saturday Jan. 11 | |
Leinier Dominguez - Anish Giri |
½-½
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Loek van Wely - Sergey Karjakin |
0-1
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Pentala Harikrishna - Levon Aronian |
½-½
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Fabiano Caruana - Boris Gelfand |
1-0
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Richard Rapport - Wesley So |
0-1
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Hikaru Nakamura - Arkadij Naiditsch |
1-0
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Nakamura, Hikaru 1-0 Naiditsch, Arkadij
In what seemed to be an equal position, Naiditsch either blundered or overestimated the power of the pawns that he received as compensation for losing a knight. Nakamura played very precisely from then on and used the power of his extra bishop to convert into a victory.
Nakamura took advantage of his opponent's mistake and finished him off with surgical precision
Dominguez Perez, Leinier ½-½ Giri, Anish
A solid Berlin ended in a boring draw.
Van Wely, Loek 0-1 Karjakin, Sergey
Van Wely simplified into a slightly worse position in which Black's extra pawn gave him the only chances to win. The resulting rook endgame was still a draw, but yet another mistake allowed Karjakin to win. The Russian didn't do anything special in this game, he simply had to wait for Van Wely to err.
Van Wely was quite close to a draw today
Harikrishna, Pentala ½-½ Aronian, Levon
Even though Black's king was quickly placed on e6, Aronian was simply following a well known recommendation that gave him approximate equality. Harikrishna's powerful knight on e5 was offset by his weakness on d4, and it was hard for him to push his pawns on the kingside.
Harikrishna was unable to pose any serious problems to Aronian
Rapport, Richard 0-1 So, Wesley
Wesley's tight flight schedule, which made him arrive to the tournament only a few hours before the round, didn't prevent him from outplaying his opponent. Rapport's 1.b3 choice was probably not the best. These kinds of systems are acceptable against weak grandmasters, or as a surprise weapon in one game, but playing it consistently as Rapport has been doing recently will not net him anything from the opening. So was able to equalize without any problems. The game became interesting when White dominated the f-file and had a good knight on e4, but he was unable to do anything with it due to his terrible bishop on b2. Nearing time pressure So found an excellent breakthrough with 37...d5! and 38...e4! putting his opponent against the ropes. In a difficult position Rapport made a mistake and lost the game.
It seems unlikely that Rapport will continue to rely on 1.b3 in this tournament
Caruana took advantage of Gelfand's self-destruction
Daniel King analyses Caruana - Gelfand
Caruana, Fabiano 1-0 Gelfand, Boris
[Event "76th Tata Steel Chess Masters"] [Site "Wijk aan Zee"] [Date "2014.01.11"] [Round "1"] [White "Caruana, Fabiano"] [Black "Gelfand, Boris"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B90"] [WhiteElo "2782"] [BlackElo "2777"] [PlyCount "59"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] [EventCountry "NED"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 {Gelfand goes back to the Najdorf Sicilian, probably expecting Caruana to have something ready against the Sveshnikov which Gelfand has been employing in recent times.} 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. f3 e5 7. Nb3 Be6 8. Be3 h5 9. Nd5 Bxd5 10. exd5 Nbd7 11. Qd2 g6 (11... Qc7) 12. Be2 Bg7 13. O-O O-O 14. Rac1 {A hard to understand move. This must be Caruana's home preparation, though, as he spent only about a minute on this move.} (14. Na5 Rb8 15. c4 e4 16. f4 Ng4 17. Bxg4 hxg4 18. f5 Qh4 {was played in the game Leko-Wojtaszek from 2012. Eventually it ended in a draw, black has already obtained enough play in this position.}) 14... b6 {Gelfand avoids the b3 knight coming to a5, and at the same time stops a potential c4-c5.} 15. h3 $5 { White shifts to the kingside. The move is also useful because Black, like in the Leko-Wojtaszek game, sometimes plays e4 to try to force f4, weakening g4. This move takes care of that.} Re8 16. g4 hxg4 17. hxg4 Nh7 $2 {The start of a bad idea} (17... Nc5 {would have seriously put the question to White on how exactly he was going to proceed. g5 is not an option here.} 18. Kg2 Qd7 { already threatens to play e4.}) 18. g5 f5 (18... e4 19. f4 Bxb2 20. Rb1 Bg7 21. Nd4 {with excellent compensation for the pawn. White already has a pleasant advantage.}) 19. gxf6 Bxf6 20. Rf2 {Caruana's simple moves underline how weak Gelfand's kingside is. It is difficult to say how he planned to defend g6.} Bg5 21. Rg2 Bxe3+ 22. Qxe3 Ndf8 23. Bd3 Ra7 24. Rf1 Rf7 25. Qh6 Kh8 26. Nd2 Rf4 27. Rg4 b5 28. Ne4 {Black's position is already very unpleasant. It's difficult to find a move, he has no concrete plan, his king is weak and g6 and d6 are easily targetted.} Nd7 $4 {The pressure got to Gelfand and this simple blunder ends his misery.} 29. Rxg6 Rg8 30. Ng5 {A rough start for Gelfand, who will have to try to bounce back against Rapport tomorrow with White.} 1-0
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Group B: Round 1 - Saturday Jan. 11 | |
Etienne Goudriaan - Zhao Xue |
0-1
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Baadur Jobava - Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
½-½
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Merijn van Delft - Kayden Troff |
0-1
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Radek Wojtaszek - Dimitri Reinderman |
0-1
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Anna Muzychuk - Jan Timman |
½-½
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Ivan Saric - Benjamin Bok |
½-½
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Yu Yangyi - Sabino Brunello |
0-1
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China's number two woman and the World's number four
started the Challenger section with a win
The Challenger section started with a few surprises. Wojtaszek, one of the pre-tournament favorites, lost to Reinderman, whose new hair color must have shocked his opponent. Yu Yangyi, also one of the top players in the event, lost to Brunello. Both favorites lost with the white pieces which makes it even more unusual.
Muzychuk played a Spanish against Timman, who defended solidly and held a draw
The American IM Kayden Troff, the 2012 World Champion U-14, rated 2457, started strong with a win against Van Delft. The other win of the game was by Zhao Xue against Goudriaan. Interestingly in the Challengers all games that was decisive was won by black.
One of the big winners of today: Reinderman vanquished Wojtaszek
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Photos by Alina l'Ami
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Day | Date | Round | English | German |
Saturday | January 11 | Round 1 | Lawrence Trent | Klaus Bischoff |
Sunday | January 12 | Round 2 | Chris Ward | Klaus Bischoff |
Monday | January 13 | Round 3 | Yasser Seirawan | Klaus Bischoff |
Tuesday | January 14 | Free | ||
Wednesday | January 15 | Round 4 | Daniel King | Klaus Bischoff |
Thursday | January 16 | Free | ||
Friday | January 17 | Round 5 | Simon Williams | Oliver Reeh |
Saturday | January 18 | Round 6 | Yasser Seirawan | Klaus Bischoff |
Sunday | January 19 | Round 7 | Daniel King | Klaus Bischoff |
Monday | January 20 | Free | ||
Tuesday | January 21 | Round 8 | Lawrence Trent | Klaus Bischoff |
Wednesday | January 22 | Free | ||
Thursday | January 23 | Round 9 | Daniel King | Klaus Bischoff |
Friday | January 24 | Free | ||
Saturday | January 25 | Round 10 | Simon Williams | Klaus Bischoff |
Sunday | January 26 | Round 11 | Daniel King | Klaus Bischoff |
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