Tata Steel and Tradewise Gibraltar live!

1/29/2017 – Both the 2017 Tata Steel and The 2017 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival are underway, spanning a range of events from the elite Masters to the Challengers, as well as Amateur opens. The events bring in world class players such as Magnus Carlsen, and Wesley So in Tata Steel, while the Tradewise Gibraltar has world no. 2 Fabiano Caruana, defending champion Hikaru Nakamura, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Veselin Topalov, and many more. Come enjoy the action with the video commentary and all the top games live!

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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 Serget 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.

Live broadcast of the Tata Steel Masters and Challengers groups

 
 

Current Masters standings

Current Challengers standings

Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2017

The Tradewise Gibraltar Open is one of the strongest and best-organised events of its kind in the world. Anyone who knows the moves (and pays the entry fee) can take part, and perhaps face top participants like Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave or Hikaru Nakamura. The tournament lasts from January 23 (opening) to February 4. The location is very balmy: ten hours of daylight, average day temperature 16° C, warm sea temperatures, beautiful scenery. Paradise!

Live video commentary of Tradewise Gibraltar (15.00h CET onwards)

 

Top pairings of round 6 on 2017/01/29 at 15.00

Bd No. Ti. Name FED Rtg Pts. Res. Pts.   Name FED Rtg No.
1 3 GM Nakamura Hikaru USA 2785 4½   4½ GM Lagarde Maxime FRA 2594 34
2 5 GM Adams Michael ENG 2751 4½   4½ GM Ju Wenjun CHN 2583 38
3 28 GM Sutovsky Emil ISR 2628 4½   4½ GM Anton David ESP 2650 24
4 16 GM Short Nigel D ENG 2675 4   4 GM Caruana Fabiano USA 2827 1
5 2 GM Vachier-Lagrave M. FRA 2796 4   4 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2645 25
6 7 GM Topalov Veselin BUL 2739 4   4 GM Howell David W L ENG 2655 20
7 8 GM Yu Yangyi CHN 2738 4   4 GM Piorun Kacper POL 2651 23
8 12 GM Matlakov Maxim RUS 2701 4   4 GM Akobian Varuzhan USA 2633 27
9 26 GM Sethuraman S.P. IND 2637 4   4 GM Cheparinov Ivan BUL 2689 13
10 58 GM Stefanova Antoaneta BUL 2512 4   4 GM Zvjaginsev Vadim RUS 2679 15
11 4 GM Ivanchuk Vassily UKR 2752 3½   4 IM Dragnev Valentin AUT 2492 67
12 6 GM Svidler Peter RUS 2748 3½   3½ GM Spraggett Kevin CAN 2542 53
13 54 GM Lagno Kateryna RUS 2530 3½   3½ GM Vitiugov Nikita RUS 2724 9
14 10 GM Gelfand Boris ISR 2721 3½   3½ IM Steinberg Nitzan ISR 2486 69
15 11 GM Naiditsch Arkadij AZE 2702 3½   3½ IM Salomon Johan NOR 2470 73

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MIT 90 MIT 90 1/29/2017 06:17
Mabuhay ang Pinoy! We are proud of you Wesley!
geraldsky geraldsky 1/29/2017 06:11
Giri still the winner of many draws. Congratulation to Gm Wesley So!
MIT 90 MIT 90 1/29/2017 06:10
Dematins ka Talaga! Congrats again!
MIT 90 MIT 90 1/29/2017 06:07
Lupitski! Congrats!
MIT 90 MIT 90 1/29/2017 05:58
Congrats Wesley!
anizzola anizzola 1/29/2017 02:10
Why didn't Magnus play 16.Bc6? Wasn't that stronger, taking control of d7 square?
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