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Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2014
I was familiar with this tournament back in the 60s as the Hoogovens at Beverwijk. Since then it has been known as the Hoogovens at Wijk aan Zee, the Corus at Wijk aan Zee and now, the Tata Steel chess at Wijk aan Zee. My Dutch doctor once told me that too many doubled vowels can make one wijk.
Be that as it may, the details of the 2014 tournament have just been released. The participants in the Masters Section, with their December FIDE ratings are:
Aronian, Levon ARM 2803
Nakamura, Hikaru USA 2786
Caruana, Fabiano ITA 2782
Gelfand, Boris ISR 2777
Karjakin, Sergey RUS 2756
Dominguez, Leinier CUB 2754
Naiditsch, Arkadij GER 2737
Giri, Anish NED 2734
So, Wesley PHL 2719
Harikrishna, Pentala IND 2708
Rapport, Richard HUN 2687
Van Wely, Loek NED 2678
I count 5 players 25 or younger - Caruana, Karjakin, Giri, So and Rapport.
There will be Live Stream Commentary on
http://www.tatasteelchess.com/
With a host of famous commentators such as Yasser Seirawan, Lawrence Trent, Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, Erwin l’Ami and Ian Rogers. The site also lists one appearance, commentating, by Tex de Wit, a name unknown to me.
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Schedule
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament has two main tournaments. They are played according to the Round Robin system, whereby each competitor plays in turn against every other during the tournament. The Grandmaster group A has 12 players and the Grandmaster group B has 14 players. Both groups start on January 11th 2014. All rounds begin at 13.30 hours (7:30 AM Toronto/Montreal time), except for the last round on January 26th, which begins at 12.00 hours.
Time Control
The time control is: 100 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the remaining moves with 30 seconds cumulative increment for each move starting from the first move.
Recent History and Zurich - Magnus Carlsen won the 2013 Tata Steel Chess Tournament with a score of 10 out of 13, equaling Garry Kasparov's 1999 record win in Wijk aan Zee.
2013 – Carlsen 10, Aronian 8.5, Anand, Karjakin 8
2012 – Aronian 9, Carlsen, Radjabov, Caruana 8
2011 – Nakamura 9, Anand 8.5, Carlsen, Aronian 8
Carlsen will not be at Tata this year because he didn’t want to play in two super-tournaments in a row. Zurich is on from January 29 to February 4, 2014
Aronian, Nakamura, Caruana and Gelfand will go on to play at Zurich. They will be joined by Anand and Carlsen.
Vladimir Kramnik said at the London Classic that he wouldn’t be in any tournaments before the Candidates (in Khanty-Mansiysk, March 12).
For the 2014 edition of Zurich, a blitz tournament will determine the color distribution. A round-robin tournament of five rounds with a classical time control is then followed by a rapid tournament with colors reversed on the last day of play. A won game in the classical tournament counts 2 points, a draw 1 point. Wins in the rapid tournament count 1 point and draws half a point.
All games will be commented by Yannick Pelletier and Werner Hug and broadcast live via Internet.
http://www.zurich-cc.com
I was familiar with this tournament back in the 60s as the Hoogovens at Beverwijk. Since then it has been known as the Hoogovens at Wijk aan Zee, the Corus at Wijk aan Zee and now, the Tata Steel chess at Wijk aan Zee. My Dutch doctor once told me that too many doubled vowels can make one wijk.
Be that as it may, the details of the 2014 tournament have just been released. The participants in the Masters Section, with their December FIDE ratings are:
Aronian, Levon ARM 2803
Nakamura, Hikaru USA 2786
Caruana, Fabiano ITA 2782
Gelfand, Boris ISR 2777
Karjakin, Sergey RUS 2756
Dominguez, Leinier CUB 2754
Naiditsch, Arkadij GER 2737
Giri, Anish NED 2734
So, Wesley PHL 2719
Harikrishna, Pentala IND 2708
Rapport, Richard HUN 2687
Van Wely, Loek NED 2678
I count 5 players 25 or younger - Caruana, Karjakin, Giri, So and Rapport.
There will be Live Stream Commentary on
http://www.tatasteelchess.com/
With a host of famous commentators such as Yasser Seirawan, Lawrence Trent, Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, Erwin l’Ami and Ian Rogers. The site also lists one appearance, commentating, by Tex de Wit, a name unknown to me.
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Schedule
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament has two main tournaments. They are played according to the Round Robin system, whereby each competitor plays in turn against every other during the tournament. The Grandmaster group A has 12 players and the Grandmaster group B has 14 players. Both groups start on January 11th 2014. All rounds begin at 13.30 hours (7:30 AM Toronto/Montreal time), except for the last round on January 26th, which begins at 12.00 hours.
Time Control
The time control is: 100 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the remaining moves with 30 seconds cumulative increment for each move starting from the first move.
Recent History and Zurich - Magnus Carlsen won the 2013 Tata Steel Chess Tournament with a score of 10 out of 13, equaling Garry Kasparov's 1999 record win in Wijk aan Zee.
2013 – Carlsen 10, Aronian 8.5, Anand, Karjakin 8
2012 – Aronian 9, Carlsen, Radjabov, Caruana 8
2011 – Nakamura 9, Anand 8.5, Carlsen, Aronian 8
Carlsen will not be at Tata this year because he didn’t want to play in two super-tournaments in a row. Zurich is on from January 29 to February 4, 2014
Aronian, Nakamura, Caruana and Gelfand will go on to play at Zurich. They will be joined by Anand and Carlsen.
Vladimir Kramnik said at the London Classic that he wouldn’t be in any tournaments before the Candidates (in Khanty-Mansiysk, March 12).
For the 2014 edition of Zurich, a blitz tournament will determine the color distribution. A round-robin tournament of five rounds with a classical time control is then followed by a rapid tournament with colors reversed on the last day of play. A won game in the classical tournament counts 2 points, a draw 1 point. Wins in the rapid tournament count 1 point and draws half a point.
All games will be commented by Yannick Pelletier and Werner Hug and broadcast live via Internet.
http://www.zurich-cc.com
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