
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.
Round six - Masters
Group A: Round 6 - Saturday Jan. 18 |
Anish Giri - Boris Gelfand |
½-½
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Levon Aronian - Wesley So |
1-0
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Sergey Karjakin - Arkadij Naiditsch |
1-0
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Leinier Dominguez - Hikaru Nakamura |
½-½
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Loek van Wely - Richard Rapport |
½-½
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Pentala Harikrishna - Fabiano Caruana |
½-½
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Karjakin, Sergey 1-0 Naiditsch, Akradij
Karjakin pressed a small advantage throughout the game, but the German was very close to sealing the draw. However a mistake in the very late stages of the game allowed Karjakin to win an important pawn and make his passed a-pawn a real threat in the queen endgame. Naiditsch basically collapsed under pressure.
Aronian, Levon 1-0 So, Wesley

This man seems unstoppable this tournament
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1.c4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 6.dxc3 Qxd1+ 7.Kxd1 f6! 6...Bg7 7.Be2 c5 8.0-0 Nc6 9.Qa4 Bd7 10.Qa3 Qa5 11.Rd1 0-0 11...e5 12.Bc4 Qxa3 13.Bxa3 b6 14.Rab1 12.Rb1 b6 13.d4 Qxa3 14.Bxa3 Bg4 15.dxc5 Bxc3 16.Ba6 Rab8 17.Rdc1 Bxf3?! 17...bxc5! 18.Rxb8 18.Rxc3?? Rxb1+ 18...Nxb8= 18.gxf3 Bd2 19.Rd1 Bc3 20.Kg2 bxc5 21.Bxc5 Bb4 22.Be3 Bd6 23.Rbc1 Nb4 24.Bc4 Rfc8 25.f4 Kf8 26.a3 Nc6 27.Ba6 Bxa3 28.Rc4 Rd8?! 28...Rc7 29.Rd5! 29.Ra1! Bb2 30.Raa4! Rd6 31.e5 Re6 32.Rc2 Nd8 32...Rb4 33.Ra2 Bd4 34.Bc8 33.Bxa7 Ra8 34.Bb5 Bxe5 35.fxe5 Rxe5 36.Be3 1–0
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Aronian,L | 2812 | So,W | 2719 | 1–0 | 2014 | A16 | Tata 2014 | 6 |
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So has had a good showing, but Aronian brought him back to reality
Daniel King analyses the ending of Aronian vs So in his play of the day
Giri, Anish ½-½ Gelfand, Boris
After a grueling game in which neither side seemed to have an advantage, Gelfand let go of his precision and Giri had good winning chances. He chose the wrong plan, though and instead of 53.Rd8? the correct 53.Rh8! would have probably given him a winning position.

Things haven't been going Gelfand's way this tournament
but today he was at least able to draw a lost position
Harikrishna, Pentala ½-½ Caruana, Fabiano
Harikrishna converted an extra passed pawn on the queenside into an extra exchange, but the position of the pawns in the kingside and the fact that all the game was on one side of the board made the knight and rook combination of Caruana have hopes of keeping the draw against Harikrishna's two rooks. After 137 moves, Harikrishna admitted that he could not break his opponent's defenses.

Caruana's knight and rook held what seemed to be a lost endgame
Dominguez Perez, Leinier ½-½ Nakamura, Hikaru
Dominguez played a very powerful Berlin endgame agaisnt Nakamura. He obtained a winning position with an extra exchange after Black's kingside could not be held anymore. However his conversion phase was not as precise as the begininng of the game and he let Nakamura escape with a draw.

Nakamura tried the Berlin, but he ended up escaping narrowly
Van Wely, Loek ½-½ Rapport, Richard
Rapport essayed a relatively normal opening today, but it did not pay dividends as he was positionally lost anyways. It was a combination of a miracle and unexplainable mistakes by Van Wely that the game ended in a draw.

Van Wely can't be happy with this result

Rapport played a King's Indian, relatively normal for him,
but it was Van Wely's mistakes that allowed him to draw today
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1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.d4 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Qf3 Bg6 6.Ne2 e6 7.c3 Qd5 8.N2g3 Nd7 9.h4 h6 10.Bd3 Ngf6 11.Nxf6+ gxf6 12.Qxd5 cxd5 13.Be2 Bd6 14.h5 Bc2 15.Nf1 a6 16.b3 Rc8 17.Bd2 Rg8 18.Ne3 Bh7 19.c4 dxc4 20.Nxc4 Bf8 21.Rc1 Rd8 22.Bf3 Nb8 23.Na5 Rxd4 24.Nxb7 Ba3 25.Rc7 Nd7 26.Na5 Ne5 27.Nc6 Nxf3+ 28.gxf3 Rd5 29.b4 Rgg5 30.Bxg5 fxg5 31.0-0 Kf8 32.Re1 Bb2 33.a4 Bc3 34.Re3 Bf6 35.Kg2 Bc2 36.Ne5 Bxe5 37.Rxc2 Bd6 38.Re4 Ke7 39.Rc6 a5 40.bxa5 Rxa5 41.Rb6 Ra7 42.Rb5 Kd7 43.Rd4 Kc6 44.Rc4+ Kd7 45.Kf1 Bc7 46.Ke2 Kd6 47.Kd3 Kd7 48.Rd4+ Kc6 49.Rc4+ Kd7 50.Kc2 Kd6 51.Kb3 Ba5 52.Rd4+ Ke7 53.f4 gxf4 54.Rxf4 f5 55.Rf3 Bc7 56.Rd3 Kf6 57.Rd7 Kg5 58.Re7 Bb6 59.f4+ Kxf4 60.Rxe6 Be3 61.Rxh6 Rf7 62.Rg6 Kf3 63.h6 Bd4 64.h7 Rxh7 65.Rxf5+ Ke4 66.Rfg5 Re7 67.a5 Be5 68.Kc4 1–0
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Rapport,R | 2691 | Harikrishna,P | 2706 | 1–0 | 2014 | B18 | 76th Tata Steel Masters | 7 |
Nakamura,H | 2789 | Van Wely,L | 2672 | 0–1 | 2014 | B45 | 76th Tata Steel Masters | 7 |
Caruana,F | 2782 | Giri,A | 2734 | ½–½ | 2014 | C27 | 76th Tata Steel Masters | 7 |
Gelfand,B | 2777 | Aronian,L | 2812 | ½–½ | 2014 | D39 | 76th Tata Steel Masters | 7 |
So,W | 2719 | Karjakin,S | 2759 | ½–½ | 2014 | E15 | 76th Tata Steel Masters | 7 |
Naiditsch,A | 2718 | Dominguez Perez,L | 2754 | ½–½ | 2014 | A48 | 76th Tata Steel Masters | 7 |
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Round seven - Challengers
Group B: Round 7 - Saturday Jan. 18 |
Radek Wojtaszek - Zhao Xue |
1-0
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Anna Muzychuk - Merijn van Delft |
½-½
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Ivan Saric - Baadur Jobava |
½-½
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Yu Yangyi - Etienne Goudriaan |
1-0
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Sabino Brunello - Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
0-1
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Benjamin Bok - Kayden Troff |
½-½
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Jan Timman - Dimitri Reinderman |
1-0
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Few true surprises happened in the Challenger section, but definitely, like in the Master's, there were missed opportunities. The big miss was probably from Muzychuk, who was winning against Van Delft, but she missed her killing blow and remaind half a point behind Saric and Jobava.

Muyzchuk had her chance to be one of the three leaders, but she missed the winning tactic
The two leaders drew, but it was certainly Saric that was calling the shots. He had a very clear advantage, maybe even decisive, but a tenacious defense from Jobava allowed him to force a draw after sacrificing a rook. Saric continues his good form, but having a point over Jobava and Muzychuk would have been much better than the situation he is in right now.
Timman is the one that starts to poke his head from the rest of the players trying to catch the three leaders. He beat Reinderman today after the purple haired player played a more than questionable version of the Dutch defense.
Brunello played a nice sacrifice against Duda, and even obtained a winning position, but two blunders in a row turned a win into a losing queen endgame that the Polish youngster converted. Bok tried to deviate from theory against Troff but the American was never in any danger.

Troff has lost two games, against Saric and Muzychuk, but still has a good performance
Wojtaszek demolished Zhao Xue without problems to gain back some momentum while Yu Yangyi inflicted upon Goudriaan his seventh loss in a row from what should have been an easily drawn endgame.

The Chinese player's -1 result so far puts her a little below expectation

Arianne Caoili, Aronian's girlfriend, was spotted in one of the amateur sections
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1.d4 f5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 g6 4.Nh3 Bg7 5.Nf4 c5 6.dxc5 Na6 7.h4 e5 8.Nd5 Nxd5 9.Qxd5 Qa5+ 10.Nc3 e4 11.Bd2 Qxc5 12.0-0-0 d6 13.f3 Qxd5 14.Nxd5 exf3 15.Bxf3 Kf7 16.Bf4 Be5 17.Ne3 Nc7 18.Nc4 Bxf4+ 19.gxf4 d5 20.Ne3 Be6 21.Nxd5 Nxd5 22.Bxd5 Bxd5 23.Rxd5 Rae8 24.h5 Ke6 25.Rhd1 Re7 26.hxg6 hxg6 27.Re5+ Kf7 28.Rxe7+ Kxe7 29.Rd4 Rc8 30.Kd2 Ke6 31.c4 Rc6 32.Kd3 Rc8 33.b4 b6 34.a4 Ke7 35.Rd5 Rb8 36.e3 Ke6 37.Kd4 Rc8 38.a5 Rb8 39.Kc3 Rc8 40.Kb3 Ke7 41.c5 bxa5 42.b5 Rh8 43.c6 Ke6 44.Rd7 Rh3 45.Rxa7 Rxe3+ 46.Kc4 Re4+ 47.Kc5 Rxf4 48.b6 1–0
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Timman,J | - | Reinderman,D | - | 1–0 | 2014 | A81 | Tata Steel Challengers | 7.1 |
Bok,B | - | Troff,K | - | ½–½ | 2014 | B90 | Tata Steel Challengers | 7.2 |
Brunello,S | - | Duda,J | - | 0–1 | 2014 | D30 | Tata Steel Challengers | 7.3 |
Yu Yangyi | - | Goudriaan,E | - | 1–0 | 2014 | B94 | Tata Steel Challengers | 7.4 |
Saric,I | - | Jobava,B | - | ½–½ | 2014 | C10 | Tata Steel Challengers | 7.5 |
Muzychuk,A | - | Van Delft,M | - | ½–½ | 2014 | B48 | Tata Steel Challengers | 7.6 |
Wojtaszek,R | - | Zhao Xue | - | 1–0 | 2014 | E12 | Tata Steel Challengers | 7.7 |
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Standings after seven rounds

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Schedule and results
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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Group A: Round 2 - Sunday Jan. 12 |
Anish Giri - Arkadij Naiditsch |
1-0
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Wesley So - Hikaru Nakamura |
½-½
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Boris Gelfand - Richard Rapport |
0-1
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Levon Aronian - Fabiano Caruana |
1-0
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Sergey Karjakin - Pentala Harikrishna |
½-½
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Leinier Dominguez - Loek van Wely |
½-½
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Group A: Round 3 - Monday Jan. 13 |
Loek van Wely - Anish Giri |
½-½
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Pentala Harikrishna - Leinier Dominguez |
1-0
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Fabiano Caruana - Sergey Karjakin |
1-0
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Richard Rapport - Levon Aronian |
½-½
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Hikaru Nakamura - Boris Gelfand |
½-½
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Arkadij Naiditsch - Wesley So |
½-½
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Group A: Round 4 - Wednesday Jan. 15 |
Anish Giri - Wesley So |
½-½
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Boris Gelfand - Arkadij Naiditsch |
½-½
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Levon Aronian - Hikaru Nakamura |
1-0
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Sergey Karjakin - Richard Rapport |
1-0
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Leinier Dominguez - Fabiano Caruana |
1-0
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Loek van Wely - Pentala Harikrishna |
½-½
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Group A: Round 5 - Friday Jan. 17 |
Pentala Harikrishna - Anish Giri |
0-1
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Fabiano Caruana - Loek van Wely |
1-0
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Richard Rapport - Leinier Dominguez |
0-1
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Hikaru Nakamura - Sergey Karjakin |
½-½
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Arkadij Naiditsch - Levon Aronian |
0-1
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Wesley So - Boris Gelfand |
1-0
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Group A: Round 6 - Saturday Jan. 18 |
Anish Giri - Boris Gelfand |
½-½
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Levon Aronian - Wesley So |
1-0
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Sergey Karjakin - Arkadij Naiditsch |
1-0
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Leinier Dominguez - Hikaru Nakamura |
½-½
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Loek van Wely - Richard Rapport |
½-½
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Pentala Harikrishna - Fabiano Caruana |
½-½
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Group A: Round 7 - Sunday Jan. 19 |
Fabiano Caruana - Anish Giri |
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Richard Rapport - Pentala Harikrishna |
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Hikaru Nakamura - Loek van Wely |
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Arkadij Naiditsch - Leinier Dominguez |
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Wesley So - Sergey Karjakin |
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Boris Gelfand - Levon Aronian |
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Group A: Round 8 - Tuesday Jan. 21 |
Anish Giri - Levon Aronian |
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Sergey Karjakin - Boris Gelfand |
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Leinier Dominguez - Wesley So |
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Loek van Wely - Arkadij Naiditsch |
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Pentala Harikrishna - Hikaru Nakamura |
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Fabiano Caruana - Richard Rapport |
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Group A: Round 9 - Thursday Jan. 23 |
Richard Rapport - Anish Giri |
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Hikaru Nakamura - Fabiano Caruana |
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Arkadij Naiditsch - Pentala Harikrishna |
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Boris Gelfand - Leinier Dominguez |
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Wesley So - Loek van Wely |
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Levon Aronian - Sergey Karjakin |
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Group A: Round 10 - Saturday Jan. 25 |
Anish Giri - Sergey Karjakin |
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Leinier Dominguez - Levon Aronian |
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Loek van Wely - Boris Gelfand |
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Pentala Harikrishna - Wesley So |
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Fabiano Caruana - Arkadij Naiditsch |
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Richard Rapport - Hikaru Nakamura |
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Group A: Round 11 - Sunday Jan. 26 |
Hikaru Nakamura - Anish Giri |
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Arkadij Naiditsch - Richard Rapport |
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Wesley So - Fabiano Caruana |
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Boris Gelfand - Pentala Harikrishna |
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Levon Aronian - Loek van Wely |
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Sergey Karjakin - Leinier Dominguez |
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Grandmaster Group B
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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Group B: Round 2 - Sunday Jan. 12 |
Zhao Xue - Sabino Brunello |
½-½
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Benjamin Bok - Yu Yangyi |
1-0
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Jan Timman - Ivan Saric |
½-½
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Dimitri Reinderman - Anna Muzychuk |
½-½
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Kayden Troff - Radek Wojtaszek |
½-½
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Jan-Krzysztof Duda - Merijn van Delft |
1-0
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Etienne Goudriaan - Baadur Jobava |
0-1
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Group B: Round 3 - Monday Jan. 13 |
Baadur Jobava - Zhao Xue |
1-0
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Merijn van Delft - Etienne Goudriaan |
1-0
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Radek Wojtaszek - Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
½-½
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Anna Muzychuk - Kayden Troff |
1-0
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Ivan Saric - Dimitri Reinderman |
1-0
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Yu Yangyi - Jan Timman |
1-0
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Sabino Brunello - Benjamin Bok |
0-1
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Group B: Round 4 - Tuesday Jan. 14 |
Zhao Xue - Benjamin Bok |
1-0
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Jan Timman - Sabino Brunello |
1-0
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Dimitri Reinderman - Yu Yangyi |
1-0
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Kayden Troff - Ivan Saric |
0-1
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Jan-Krzysztof Duda - Anna Muzychuk |
0-1
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Etienne Goudriaan - Radek Wojtaszek |
0-1
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Baadur Jobava - Merijn van Delft |
1-0
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Wednesday, Jan. 15 – Free day
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Group B: Round 5 - Thursday Jan. 16 |
Merijn van Delft - Zhao Xue |
½-½
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Radek Wojtaszek - Baadur Jobava |
0-1
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Anna Muzychuk - Etienne Goudriaan |
1-0
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Ivan Saric - Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
1-0
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Yu Yangyi - Kayden Troff |
½-½
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Sabino Brunello - Dimitri Reinderman |
1-0
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Benjamin Bok - Jan Timman |
½-½
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Group B: Round 6 - Friday Jan. 17 |
Zhao Xue - Jan Timman |
0-1
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Dimitri Reinderman - Benjamin Bok |
½-½
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Kayden Troff - Sabino Brunello |
½-½
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Jan-Krzysztof Duda - Yu Yangyi |
0-1
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Etienne Goudriaan - Ivan Saric |
0-1
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Baadur Jobava - Anna Muzychuk |
½-½
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Merijn van Delft - Radek Wojtaszek |
0-1
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Group B: Round 7 - Saturday Jan. 18 |
Radek Wojtaszek - Zhao Xue |
1-0
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Anna Muzychuk - Merijn van Delft |
½-½
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Ivan Saric - Baadur Jobava |
½-½
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Yu Yangyi - Etienne Goudriaan |
1-0
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Sabino Brunello - Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
0-1
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Benjamin Bok - Kayden Troff |
½-½
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Jan Timman - Dimitri Reinderman |
1-0
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Group B: Round 8 - Sunday Jan. 19 |
Zhao Xue - Dimitri Reinderman |
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Kayden Troff - Jan Timman |
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Jan-Krzysztof Duda - Benjamin Bok |
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Etienne Goudriaan - Sabino Brunello |
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Baadur Jobava - Yu Yangyi |
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Merijn van Delft - Ivan Saric |
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Radek Wojtaszek - Anna Muzychuk |
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Monday, Jan. 20 – Free day
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Group B: Round 9 - Tuesday Jan. 21 |
Anna Muzychuk - Zhao Xue |
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Ivan Saric - Radek Wojtaszek |
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Yu Yangyi - Merijn van Delft |
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Sabino Brunello - Baadur Jobava |
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Benjamin Bok - Etienne Goudriaan |
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Jan Timman - Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
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Dimitri Reinderman - Kayden Troff |
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Group B: Round 10 - Wednesday Jan. 22 |
Zhao Xue - Kayden Troff |
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Jan-Krzysztof Duda - Dimitri Reinderman |
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Etienne Goudriaan - Jan Timman |
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Baadur Jobava - Benjamin Bok |
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Merijn van Delft - Sabino Brunello |
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Radek Wojtaszek - Yu Yangyi |
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Anna Muzychuk - Ivan Saric |
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Thursday, Jan. 23 – Free day
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Group B: Round 11 - Friday Jan. 24 |
Ivan Saric - Zhao Xue |
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Yu Yangyi - Anna Muzychuk |
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Sabino Brunello - Radek Wojtaszek |
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Benjamin Bok - Merijn van Delft |
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Jan Timman - Baadur Jobava |
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Dimitri Reinderman - Etienne Goudriaan |
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Kayden Troff - Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
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Group B: Round 12 - Saturday Jan. 25 |
Zhao Xue - Jan-Krzysztof Duda |
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Etienne Goudriaan - Kayden Troff |
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Baadur Jobava - Dimitri Reinderman |
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Merijn van Delft - Jan Timman |
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Radek Wojtaszek - Benjamin Bok |
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Anna Muzychuk - Sabino Brunello |
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Ivan Saric - Yu Yangyi |
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Group B: Round 13 - Sunday Jan. 26 |
Yu Yangyi - Zhao Xue |
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Sabino Brunello - Ivan Saric |
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Benjamin Bok - Anna Muzychuk |
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Jan Timman - Radek Wojtaszek |
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Dimitri Reinderman - Merijn van Delft |
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Kayden Troff - Baadur Jobava |
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Jan-Krzysztof Duda - Etienne Goudriaan |
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Commentary schedule on Playchess
Day |
Date |
Round |
English |
German |
Sunday |
January 19 |
Round 7 |
Daniel King |
Klaus Bischoff |
Monday |
January 20 |
Free |
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Tuesday |
January 21 |
Round 8 |
Lawrence Trent |
Klaus Bischoff |
Wednesday |
January 22 |
Free |
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Thursday |
January 23 |
Round 9 |
Daniel King |
Klaus Bischoff |
Friday |
January 24 |
Free |
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Saturday |
January 25 |
Round 10 |
Simon Williams |
Klaus Bischoff |
Sunday |
January 26 |
Round 11 |
Daniel King |
Klaus Bischoff |