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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.
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
[Event "Tata 2014"] [Site "Wijk ann Zee"] [Date "2014.01.18"] [Round "6"] [White "Aronian, Levon"] [Black "So, Wesley"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A16"] [WhiteElo "2812"] [BlackElo "2719"] [Annotator "Ramirez Alvarez,Alejandro"] [PlyCount "71"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 {not the most popular of the anti-Grunfelds, but these ideas are still dangerous for Black if not handled properly.} (6. dxc3 Qxd1+ 7. Kxd1 f6 $1 {is now known to be equal for Black.}) 6... Bg7 7. Be2 c5 8. O-O Nc6 {Black has a lot of pressure against d4, but the pawn hasn't reached this square yet and it won't for a few moves, which allows White to bolster the defense of this square indirectly.} 9. Qa4 Bd7 10. Qa3 Qa5 11. Rd1 {This had all been seen in a game between Akopian and Mamedyarov, so its likely that Aronian was absolutely sure of what he was doing.} O-O (11... e5 12. Bc4 Qxa3 13. Bxa3 b6 14. Rab1 {eventually ended in a draw in the aforementioned game, in 2011.}) 12. Rb1 b6 13. d4 Qxa3 14. Bxa3 { White holds some pressure as he is better developed, but with good play it seems very likely that Black can hold equality.} Bg4 15. dxc5 Bxc3 16. Ba6 Rab8 17. Rdc1 Bxf3 $6 (17... bxc5 $1 {was most precise, using a cute tactical trick} 18. Rxb8 (18. Rxc3 $4 Rxb1+) 18... Nxb8 $11) 18. gxf3 Bd2 19. Rd1 Bc3 20. Kg2 { Now White's pair of bishops give him some hope for an advantage. Black has to be very precise not to be worse.} 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 $6 (28... Rc7 29. Rd5 $1 {Allows White to keep a lot of pressure. Notice that it is not easy to untangle as Black. However this was preferable to the game continuation.}) 29. Ra1 $1 Bb2 30. Raa4 $1 {A surprising position! Black's knight is impossible to defend as it is trapped on c6!} Rd6 31. e5 Re6 32. Rc2 {The rook is now trapped one e6 while all of Black's pieces are under attack.} Nd8 (32... Rb4 33. Ra2 Bd4 34. Bc8 {lost material, but the move in the game loses even faster. }) 33. Bxa7 Ra8 34. Bb5 {Now it's Black's bishops turn to be trapped. The game is over.} Bxe5 35. fxe5 Rxe5 36. Be3 {It is not realistic to hope to draw this position down a piece. The two pawns do not compensate for the pair of bishops and Black's king is not safe.} 1-0
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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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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Photos by Alina l'Ami
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Thursday, Jan. 23 – Free day
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Day | Date | Round | English | German |
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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