Tata Steel India, Day 1: Aronian starts with 3.0/3

by André Schulz
11/18/2021 – Levon Aronian had a very good start at the 3. Tata Steel India Chess Festival: with wins against Vidit Gujrathi, Sam Shankland and Baskaran Adhiban he began the rapid tournament with 3.0/3. The festival is played at the Indian National Library in Kolkata and the enthusiasm is great though only a limited number of spectators are admitted. | Photos: Lennart Ootes
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The 3rd Tata Steel India Chess Festival in Kolkata started 17 November and will finish on 21 November. Headliners are a rapid tournament and a blitz tournament with top international grandmasters and Indian talent. In addition to the two invitational tournaments, the supporting programme includes open rapid and blitz tournaments, limited to 150 participants each.

An illustrious field

The two top tournaments will be played with ten participants each. Six players will take part in both tournaments: Levon Aronian, Sam Shankland, Parham Maghsoodloo, Le Quam Liem, Vidit Gujrathi and Baskaran Adhiban. Also playing in the rapid tournament are Praggnanandhaa, his sister Vaishali, Arjun Erigaisi and Karthikeyan Murali.

In the blitz tournament, Nihal Sarin, Gukesh, Raunak Sadhwani and Harika Dronavalli are participating as Indian representatives. The young Indian talents will be coached by Viswanathan Anand. The 15th World Champion is the guest of honour at the event.

The round begins

This DVD allows you to learn from the example of one of the best players in the history of chess and from the explanations of the authors how to successfully organise your games strategically, and how to keep your opponent permanently under pressure.

The theatre hall in the Indian National Library, on whose stage the players play their games, offers enough space for a large crowd of spectators. 2019, during the last edition of the tournament, the hall was filled to capacity. This year, however, the number of spectators allowed was severely limited due to the ongoing pandemic.

Day 1 began with the first three rounds of the rapid tournament. Levon Aronian got off to the best start and was the only player to win all three games, although he did have strong opponents in Vidit, Shankland and Adhiban.

Levon Aronian

Praggnanandhaa, Vidit and Erigaisi, finished the first day with 2.0/3, and now share second to fourth place.

The only female participant is Praggnanandhaa's elder sister Vaishali, who scored her only half point against her "little brother" after a tough game in which both sides wanted to win.

Rock-paper-scissors?

With 0.5/3 she is half a point ahead of Baskharan Adhiban, who had a bad start and lost all of his three games.

In round 1 Adhiban lost against Vidit:

Sagar Shah and Tania Sachdev commentate live and welcome guests.

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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 Bb7 10.d4 Re8 11.Nbd2 Bf8 12.a3!       now scores much better than the old 12.a4. h6 13.Ba2 Nb8 The position is equal. 14.Qb3
Hoping for dxe5. C93: Closed Ruy Lopez: Smyslov Variation. 14...Qd7 15.Qc2 c5 16.d5 c4 17.b3 cxb3 18.Bxb3 Qc7 19.a4 Nbd7       20.Ba3 Rec8
21.Rec1N Predecessor: 21.c4 Nb6 22.axb5 axb5 23.Rec1 Qd8 24.Qb1 Ba6 25.cxb5 Rxc1+ 26.Qxc1 Bxb5 27.Qb1 ½-½ (54) Bernardino,Z (2537)-Fernandez Ballon,A (2588) ICCF email 2005 21...Nc5 22.c4 Qb6 Threatening ...b4. 23.a5 Qa7 24.Qb1 Rab8 25.cxb5 axb5 26.Bb4 Ncxe4 27.Rxc8! Qxf2+ 28.Kh2 Qg3+ 29.Kg1 Qf2+ 29...Bxc8? 30.Nxe4 Nxe4 31.Qxe4+- 30.Kh2 Qg3+ 31.Kg1 Qf2+ A rather calm draw. Weighted Error Value: White=0.02/Black=0.03 31...Bxc8? perishes. 32.Nxe4 Nxe4 33.Qxe4+- ½–½
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Karthikeyan,M2630Le,Q2709½–½2021C933rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20211.1
Vaishali R2405Praggnanandhaa R2610½–½2021B523rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20211.2
Erigaisi Arjun2627Maghsoodloo,P27061–02021D853rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20211.3
Shankland,S2708Aronian,L27820–12021E043rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20211.4
Adhiban,B2672Vidit,S27270–12021C543rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20211.5
Praggnanandhaa R2610Erigaisi Arjun26271–02021D023rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20212.1
Maghsoodloo,P2706Shankland,S27080–12021C503rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20212.2
Le,Q2709Vidit,S27270–12021D323rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20212.3
Karthikeyan,M2630Vaishali R24051–02021C723rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20212.4
Aronian,L2782Adhiban,B26721–02021C633rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20212.5
Adhiban,B2672Maghsoodloo,P27060–12021B823rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20213.1
Vidit,S2727Aronian,L27820–12021D393rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20213.2
Shankland,S2708Praggnanandhaa R2610½–½2021B333rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20213.3
Erigaisi Arjun2627Karthikeyan,M26301–02021D003rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20213.4
Vaishali R2405Le,Q27090–12021B123rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20213.5
Le,Q2709Aronian,L27821–02021D203rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20214.1
Vaishali R2405Erigaisi Arjun26270–12021C603rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20214.2
Maghsoodloo,P2706Vidit,S2727½–½2021C503rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20214.3
Praggnanandhaa R2610Adhiban,B26721–02021D853rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20214.4
Karthikeyan,M2630Shankland,S2708½–½2021C653rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20214.5
Shankland,S2708Vaishali R24051–02021D023rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20215.1
Vidit,S2727Praggnanandhaa R2610½–½2021D273rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20215.2
Adhiban,B2672Karthikeyan,M2630½–½2021A063rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20215.3
Aronian,L2782Maghsoodloo,P2706½–½2021B313rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20215.4
Erigaisi Arjun2627Le,Q27091–02021E523rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20215.5
Karthikeyan,M2630Vidit,S2727½–½2021C773rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20216.1
Erigaisi Arjun2627Shankland,S27081–02021D023rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20216.2
Vaishali R2405Adhiban,B2672½–½2021C843rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20216.3
Le,Q2709Maghsoodloo,P27060–12021E403rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20216.4
Praggnanandhaa R2610Aronian,L2782½–½2021D203rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20216.5
Vidit,S2727Vaishali R24051–02021D323rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20217.1
Aronian,L2782Karthikeyan,M2630½–½2021C793rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20217.2
Shankland,S2708Le,Q27091–02021C773rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20217.3
Adhiban,B2672Erigaisi Arjun2627½–½2021C423rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20217.4
Maghsoodloo,P2706Praggnanandhaa R2610½–½2021B333rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20217.5
Shankland,S2708Adhiban,B2672½–½2021A313rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20218.1
Karthikeyan,M2630Maghsoodloo,P27061–02021C933rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20218.2
Vaishali R2405Aronian,L2782½–½2021B903rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20218.3
Le,Q2709Praggnanandhaa R2610½–½2021D103rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20218.4
Erigaisi Arjun2627Vidit,S2727½–½2021D383rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20218.5
Aronian,L2782Erigaisi Arjun2627½–½2021C423rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20219.1
Adhiban,B2672Le,Q27090–12021A063rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20219.2
Praggnanandhaa R2610Karthikeyan,M2630½–½2021E943rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20219.3
Vidit,S2727Shankland,S2708½–½2021D853rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20219.4
Maghsoodloo,P2706Vaishali R24051–02021E603rd Tata Steel Chess India Rapid 20219.5

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