1/12/2013 – Indian GM Pentala Harikrishna defeated the Dutch Champion Anish Giri. Sergey Karjakin celebrated his 23rd birthday by outplaying the former Women's World Champion Hou Yifan, 18, in a Classical French. GM Daniel King looks at this exciting game in his video report. All other games were drawn, and most notably Carlsen-Caruana, Anand-Nakamura and Aronian-van Wely. Round one report.
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75. Tata Steel Chess Tournament
January 2013
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This event is taking place from January 12-27. The venue is as usual the traditional
De Moriaan Center in the Dutch sea resort of Wijk aan Zee,. The tournament has
taken place since 1938 and was known as the Corus Chess Tournament. The Indian
company Tata Steel bought Corus (for US $7.6 billion) in 2006 and the chess
event way renamed accordingly. The tournament has three Grandmaster Groups,
which have 14 players and are held as full round robins (each competitor plays
against every other). The rate of play for all three groups is 100 minutes for
40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 moves and finally 15 minutes for the rest of
the game, with a 30 seconds/move increment starting with the first move of the
game.
Round one report
By GM Alejandro Ramirez
Group A: Round 1 - Saturday January 12
Levon Aronian - Loek van Wely
½-½
Magnus Carlsen - Fabiano Caruana
½-½
Pentala Harikrishna - Anish Giri
1-0
Vishy Anand - Hikaru Nakamura
½-½
Ivan Sokolov - Wang Hao
½-½
Peter Leko - Erwin L'Ami
½-½
Sergey Karjakin - Hou Yifan
1-0
Every year the chess elite open up the season with one of the best, if not
the best, tournament of the year: Wijk Aan Zee! Now under the sponsorship of
Tata Steel, the tournament features three distinct sections that have always
produced exciting encounter and surprising winners.
The playing hall, with the Open in its final phase in the foreground...
... and the A-C Groups in full swing in the background
This year’s group A holds a formidable amount of talented young players
and of consolidated super-GMs. Participants include past winners Aronian, Nakamura,
Anand, Carlsen and Karjakin. The lowest rated player is barely over 2600, but
she is one of chess’ greatest hopes! With an aggressive style and a charming
personality, ex World Champion Hou Yifan will have a lot to prove in the midst
of so many chess monsters.
Todays’ round was relatively quiet, but did have some interesting aspects.
The most looked after game, Maqgnus Carlsen vs Fabiano Caruana (above), finished
in an uneventful draw after Carlsen’s opening experiment was neutralized
and the position reached a dry opposite colored bishop situation.
The game between World Champion Viswanathan Anand (above) and US grandmaster
Hikaru Nakamura also promised fireworks, but most of the interesting lines of
this game remained as alternatives.
Nakamura (above) had a solid pawn structure that fully compensated his nonexistent
development, and Anand saw nothing better than to force a perpetual at some
point.
Levon Aronian (above left) had a dominant knight over Van Wely’s position,
but it was completely neutralized by the Dutchman's rampaging rook. An exciting
draw. Sokolov and Leko seemed to be putting the pressure on Wang Hao and L’Ami
respectively, one with a promising position and the other with an extra pawn,
but at the end both defenders held their draws.
The decisive results were quite instructive. Pentala Harikrishna (above) was
infinitely patient and converted a slightly better rook endgame against Anish
Giri after many many moves.
The highlight of the round however was Sergey Karjakin’s demolition of
Hou Yifan. Her opening choice was poor to say the least, and after her king
was stuck in the center it was only her wit that prevented her from losing immediately.
Sergey Karjakin, playing for a win on his 23rd birthday
Alas, through clever tactics the Russian was able to win a piece for two pawns,
and despite the fact that he only had one h-pawn left on the board, it was sufficient
to force a win.
Former Women's World Champion Hou Yifan, 18 years old
We hope the Chinese prodigy bounces back tomorrow, but Caissa seems to not
have favored her as she starts this very tough tournament with two blacks in
a row.
GM Danny King Play of the Day – Karjakin-Hou Yifan
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Results of the B and C Groups
Group B: Round 1 - Saturday January 12
Richard Rapport - Robin van Kampen
½-½
Romain Edouard - Pedrag Nikolic
½-½
Sipke Ernst - Jan Timman
0-1
Sergei Movsesian - Arkadij Naiditsch
½-½
Sergey Tiviakov - Alexander Ipatov
1-0
Maxim Turov - Nils Grandelius
½-½
Daniil Dubov - Jan Smeets
½-½
Group C: Round 1 - Saturday January 12
Fernando Peralta - Alexandra Goryachkina
1-0
Robin Swinkels - Alexander Kovchan
½-½
Sabino Brunello - David Klein
1-0
Lisa Schut - Miguoel Admiraal
½-½
Igor Bitensky - Oleg Romanishin
½-½
Krikor Mekhitarian - Twan Burg
1-0
Hjorvar Gretarsson - Mark van der Werf
½-½
The great Jan Timman (above right) scored a black piece win over Sipke Ernst
The youngest participant, 14-year-old Alexandra Goryachkina, rated 2402, faced
the top seed in her group, Argentian GM Fernando Peralta, 2617 on the Elo scale.
On move 28 the U18 Women's World Champion had traded down to a a knight and
bishop ending, a pawn down, and made her opponent fight until move 80 to get
the full point.
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