Tata Steel Chess - Round 13 Round-up

Round 13

Carlsen made a 30-move draw with black against Anish Giri, winning his record-extending seventh Tata Steel Chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee. Giri takes clear second.

In the Challengers, Vladislav Kovalev impressively won by a 1½ point margin as both of his closest pursuers lost their final round games.

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GM Yannick Pelletier provides the summary for the final Tata Steel Chess round

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"If you're not nervous before such a game, you're not human."

Giri is the runner-up behind Carlsen for the second year in a row

Final standings - Masters

Games and commentary

Players receive 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds bonus per move starting from move one.

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Commentary by IM Sopiko Guramishvili and GM Robert Hess

Final standings - Challengers

Results of Round 13

A 14-player single round-robin means each player plays every other once for 13 rounds in all. The drawing of lots determines the colours for each game.

Masters

My Path to the Top

On this DVD Vladimir Kramnik retraces his career from talented schoolboy to World Champion in 2006. With humour and charm he describes his first successes, what it meant to be part of the Russian Gold Medal team at the Olympiad, and how he undertook the Herculean task of beating his former mentor and teacher Garry Kasparov.

Challengers

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The players

We introduced the fields in our December preview: Strong fields set for Tata Steel 2019.

Masters group

Master Class Vol.8: Magnus Carlsen

Scarcely any world champion has managed to captivate chess lovers to the extent Carlsen has. The enormously talented Norwegian hasn't been systematically trained within the structures of a major chess-playing nation such as Russia, the Ukraine or China.

Average rating: 2753 (FIDE rankings and Elo as of January 1, 2019)

Challengers group

Average rating: 2582 (as of January 1, 2019)

My Career Vol. 1

The first DVD with videos from Anand's chess career reflects the very beginning of that career and goes as far as 1999. It starts with his memories of how he first learned chess and shows his first great games (including those from the 1984 WCh for juniors). The high point of his early developmental phase was the winning of the 1987 WCh for juniors. After that, things continue in quick succession: the first victories over Kasparov, WCh candidate in both the FIDE and PCA cycles and the high point of the WCh match against Kasparov in 1995.
Running time: 3:48 hours

Schedule

All rounds in Wijk aan Zee start at 13:30 CET (12:30 UTC, 7:30 EST), except the last round, which starts at 12.00. The Chess-on-Tour rounds (5 and 10 Masters-only) start at 14:00 CET.

Links

• Official site
• Strong fields set for Tata Steel 2019
• All stories on Tata Steel Chess 2018