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The first TATA Steel Chess India tournament will commence 9-14 November in Kolkata and consist of Rapid and Blitz events with separate prize funds. Playing dates are 9-11 for rapid and 13-14 November for blitz games. The super-tournament has a strong line-up of Viswanathan Anand, Karjakin Sergey, Levon Aronian, Hikaru Nakamura, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Wesley So, Harikrishna Pentala, Vidit Gujrathi, Surya Sekhar Ganguly and two Indian prodigies Nihal Sarin and Praggnanandhaa R. who will both make their debut playing tournaments of such a high level. Nihal will join the nine players for Rapid and Pragg - for blitz.
The total prize money in the two events is US$ 40,000 with first prizes of US$ 10,000 and US$ 7,500 in the Rapid and Blitz tournaments, respectively.
Finally an event in India promoted by Tata Steel (an Indian company) and they will have great interest with the two prodigies Nihal Sarin and Pragg playing! Exciting!
1 Harikrishna Pentala ½ - ½ Ganguly Surya Shekhar
2 Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 1 - 0 Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
3 Nakamura Hikaru ½ - ½ Aronian Levon
4 Nihal Sarin ½ - ½ Karjakin Sergey
5 Anand Viswanathan ½ - ½ So Wesley
Round 2, Nov. 9
1 Ganguly Surya Shekhar ½ - ½ So Wesley
2 Karjakin Sergey ½ - ½ Anand Viswanathan
3 Aronian Levon 1 - 0 Nihal Sarin
4 Vidit Santosh Gujrathi ½ - ½ Nakamura Hikaru
5 Harikrishna Pentala 1 - 0 Mamedyarov Shakhriyar
Round 3, Nov. 9
1 Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 1 - 0 Ganguly Surya Shekhar
2 Nakamura Hikaru ½ - ½ Harikrishna Pentala
3 Nihal Sarin ½ - ½ Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
4 Anand Viswanathan ½ - ½ Aronian Levon
5 So Wesley ½ - ½ Karjakin Sergey
Day Two
Rounds Four to Six
Round 4, Nov. 10
1 Ganguly Surya Shekhar 0 - 1 Karjakin Sergey
2 Aronian Levon 1 - 0 So Wesley
3 Vidit Santosh Gujrathi ½ - ½ Anand Viswanathan
4 Harikrishna Pentala ½ - ½ Nihal Sarin
5 Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 0 - 1 Nakamura Hikaru
Round 5, Nov. 10
1 Nakamura Hikaru 1 - 0 Ganguly Surya Shekhar
2 Nihal Sarin ½ - ½ Mamedyarov Shakhriyar
3 Anand Viswanathan ½ - ½ Harikrishna Pentala
4 So Wesley 1 - 0 Vidit Santosh Gujrathi
5 Karjakin Sergey ½ - ½ Aronian Levon
Round 6, Nov. 10
1 Ganguly Surya Shekhar 0 - 1 Aronian Levon
2 Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 1 - 0 Karjakin Sergey
3 Harikrishna Pentala ½ - ½ So Wesley
4 Mamedyarov Shakhriyar ½ - ½ Anand Viswanathan
5 Nakamura Hikaru 1 - 0 Nihal Sarin
1 IND 2127 IM Nihal Sarin ½ - ½ GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND 2608
2 IND 2737 GM Anand Viswanathan ½ - ½ GM Nakamura Hikaru USA 2844
3 USA 2808 GM So Wesley ½ - ½ GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar AZE 2794
4 RUS 2792 GM Karjakin Sergey 1 - 0 GM Harikrishna Pentala IND 2743
5 ARM 2802 GM Aronian Levon ½ - ½ GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi IND 2660
Round 8, Nov. 11
1 IND 2608 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar 0 - 1 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi IND 2660
2 IND 2743 GM Harikrishna Pentala 1 - 0 GM Aronian Levon ARM 2802
3 AZE 2794 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 1 - 0 GM Karjakin Sergey RUS 2792
4 USA 2844 GM Nakamura Hikaru ½ - ½ GM So Wesley USA 2808
5 IND 2127 IM Nihal Sarin ½ - ½ GM Anand Viswanathan IND 2737
Round 9, Nov. 11
1 IND 2737 GM Anand Viswanathan 0 - 1 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND 2608
2 USA 2808 GM So Wesley 1 - 0 IM Nihal Sarin IND 2127
3 RUS 2792 GM Karjakin Sergey ½ - ½ GM Nakamura Hikaru USA 2844
4 ARM 2802 GM Aronian Levon ½ - ½ GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar AZE 2794
5 IND 2660 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 0 - 1 GM Harikrishna Pentala IND 2743
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