1/24/2012 – Once again the balance of power's pendulum swung, and Aronian took a full one-point lead after beating Caruana in a strong game in which he always seemed a step ahead. For Carlsen, it was a double nightmare as a mistake put him in hot water against Karjakin from which he never recovered. Ivanchuk also beat Giri after a tense game. Report with video analysis by Sergey Karjakin.
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The 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament will take place from January 13 to 29,
2012 in the sports hall Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee. There are three grandmaster
tournaments with fourteen players each playing thirteen rounds at 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. Rest days are on January 18, 23, and 26.
Tata Steel Tournament 2012
Round nine
The entrance to the playing area
Group A: Round 9 - Tues. Jan. 24th
Hikaru Nakamura - Veselin Topalov
½-½
Magnus Carlsen - Sergey Karjakin
0-1
Gata Kamsky - Teimour Radjabov
½-½
Loek van Wely - Boris Gelfand
½-½
Vugar Gashimov - David Navara
½-½
Vassily Ivanchuk - Anish Giri
1-0
Levon Aronian - Fabiano Caruana
1-0
It was an altogether remarkable round in which several players made their move to establish their gold medal intentions.
The first to achieve a winning score was Levon Aronian, who was tied with Magnus Carlsen for first, against Fabiano Caruana. The opening went quickly very wrong, and while the game took a further 25 moves to end, the Armenian did not let his prey escape.
This win became all the more decisive due to hair-raising result on board one. After a mistake on move 18, Carlsen got into a difficult position from which he never managed to extricate himself, making the round a double nightmare, since aside from his loss, he saw his rival win and take a one point lead with three rounds to go.
Sergey Karjakin analyzes his win over Magnus Carlsen
Ivanchuk is now tied 2nd-4th after his win over Giri
Giri and Ivanchuk also played a tense game with mistakes, but a final one by the young Dutchman allowing the Ukrainian to enter a won pawn endgame ended it.
The B group was also extremely lively, with five of the seven games ending in wins, however a key one was leader Harikrishna’s victory over Nyzhnyk, allowing him to maintain his one point lead, with 7.0/9. While Motylev dropped a half point against Cmilyte, L’Ami and Bruzon both won to make it a threesome at 6.0/9.
Group B standings after nine rounds
Group C: Round 9 - Tues. Jan. 24th
Baskaran Adhiban - Pieter Hopman
1-0
Etienne Goudriaan - Daan Brandenburg
½-½
Elina Danielian - Elizabeth Paehtz
½-½
Maxim Turov - Tania Sachdev
1-0
Lisa Schut - Matthew Sadler
½-½
Anne Haast - Sahaj Grover
1-0
Lars Ootes - Hans Tikkanen
0-1
In the C group, Turov and Tikkanen lead with 7.5/9, followed by Adhiban with 6.5/9. The good news for Dutch chess was Lisa Schut’s draw against Sadler, securing a WGM norm.
There will be full broadcast of all games on the official site and on the Playchess
server, which will provide live audio commentary of the most interesting
games (free for Premium members) starting at 15:00h for each round, 14:00h for
the final round.
Date
Round
Day
Commentator
25.01.2012
Round 10
Wednesday
Pelletier
26.01.2012
Free Day
Thursday
27.01.2012
Round 11
Friday
King
28.01.2012
Round 12
Saturday
Trent
29.01.2012
Round 13
Sunday
King
Commentary begins at approx. 3 PM and lasts 2-2.5 hours with breaks in between.
A round up show is provided at 8 PM server time.
The games are being broadcast live on the official
web site and on the chess server Playchess.com.
If you are not a member you can download a free Playchess client and get
immediate access. Or you can get our latest Fritz
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