Wojtaszek and Grandelius at Tata Steel Chess Tournament

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12/30/2020 – Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Poland) and Nils Grandelius (Sweden) will participate in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 in January. They will replace Ian Nepomniachtchi and Nodirbek Abdusattorov, who have recently cancelled. 33-year-old Wojtaszek is the world’s number 36, with a rating of 2705. 27-year-old Grandelius (number 76 on the world ranking list) will debut in the Tata Steel Masters. He is Sweden’s best player and known for his adventurous playing style. The Tata Steel Chess Tournament will take place in De Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee from 15 – 31 January 2021.
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Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021

Radoslaw Wojtaszek participated in the Tata Steel Masters in 2015 and 2017 and finished 9th on both occasions. He became the focus of attention when he managed to beat world champion Magnus Carlsen in Wijk aan Zee in 2015.

 
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1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 f5 A delayed dutch. 4.b4 Bg7 5.Bb2 a5 6.b5 a4!? This brave pawn will be weak, but it does restrict White a little. Carlsen has to be very careful not to lose it though. 7.e3 Nf6 8.Be2 c6 9.bxc6 bxc6 10.0-0 0-0 11.Qc2 Qc7 12.Nc3 a3 13.Bc1 White has a nice edge. His central control and possibility to attack a3 makes Black's position very shaky. The best he can do is sacrifice the a3 pawn and try to gain counterplay using the open a-file, but that seems to be easier said than done. Nbd7 14.Rb1 Ne4 This uses a nifty tactical resource, but Wojtaszek smartly sidesteps the complications. 15.Nxe4 fxe4 16.Nd2 16.Qxe4 Nc5! 17.dxc5 17.Qh4 Bf5 17...Bf5 skewers the queen to the rook on b1. 16...Nf6 17.Rb3 White is now going to win the b3 pawn and in some lines e4 is under attack. Black really has no compensation. Bf5 18.Rxa3 h5 19.Rxa8 Rxa8 20.a3 h4 Initiating operations on the kingside is the only way to go, but it is insufficient. 21.Bb2 h3 22.g3 Ignoring the pawn pushes is fine for White as there is no way to force the trade of the bishops, the knight on d2 AND get a queen to f3. Qc8 23.Re1 23.Ra1 Bg4! 23...Rb8 23...Bg4 24.Nxe4 is no good. Re1 is prophylaxis against Bg4. 24.Bc3 Nh7 25.a4 Ng5 26.Rb1 Ra8 27.Qd1 27.Rb6± 27...c5 28.Rb6 Qe6? This leads to a forced win for White. 28...Kh7 still keeps Black's chances alive, though there is no doubt that White is better. 29.g4! Simply put the bishop on f5 is trapped. Black has some tricks, but that's it. cxd4 30.Bxd4 There is no rush in capturing on f5, so this is more precise. Bxd4 31.exd4 e3 32.gxf5 gxf5 32...exf2+ 33.Kf1! Qxf5 34.Qb1 is kaput. 33.Nf1 exf2+ 34.Kxf2 Ne4+ 35.Ke1 White's king is a little exposed, and with time trouble looming the situation is tricky, but Wojtaszek handles it very well. Qf6 36.Qd3 Rxa4 37.Rb1! Covering the first rank removes counterplay. Qh4+ 38.Ng3 Kf7 38...Nxg3 39.Qxg3+ Qxg3+ 40.hxg3 h2 41.Kf2+- 39.Qf3! Kg7 40.Qf4! A very human reaction. The computers will tell you there are better moves out there, but simplifying into an endgame up a piece is the simplest. Qxf4 41.Nh5+ Kf7 42.Nxf4 Ng5 43.d5 The rest is relatively easy. White just needs to untangle and put his pieces in the correct spots. f5 and h3 will eventually work by themselves. Kf6 44.Kf2 Ra3 45.Bd3 Ra2+ 46.Kg3 Ra3 47.Re1 Ne4+ 48.Kf3 Ng5+ 49.Ke3 Ra2 50.Re2 Ra3 51.Rf2 Ne4 52.Rf3 1–0
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Wojtaszek,R2744Carlsen,M28621–02015A41Tata Steel-A 77th3

Last summer, Wojtaszek won the international tournament in Biel.

Line-up of the Tata Steel Masters 2021

Magnus Carlsen 2862
Fabiano Caruana 2823
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2784 
Anish Giri 2764
Alireza Firouzja 2749
Jan-Krzysztof Duda 2743
Pentala Harikrishna 2732
Radoslav Wojtaszek 2705
Daniil Dubov 2702
Andrey Esipenko 2686
David Anton Guijarro 2675
Jorden Van Foreest 2671
Nils Grandelius 2663
Aryan Tari 2618

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