The Dutch GM managed to beat GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek from an equal endgame after GM Fabiano Caruana and GM Magnus Carlsen drew their game. 33-year-old Wojtaszek is the world’s number 36, with a rating of 2705. … "I was under pressure for the last four hours, clearly, so definitely a relief!" The time control is 100 minutes for 40 moves followed by 50 minutes for 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment per move from move 1. ... a new chess game will not be opened in all your current tabs. Carlsen got a slight edge out of the opening based on an isolated queen's pawn for White. It's remarkable that after 10 rounds there are still four players who didn't lose a single game. Andrey Esipenko - Third Place Tata Steel Chess Tournament. 0:00 / 15:02. Featuring: Carlsen, Caruana, Vachier-Lagrave, Giri, Firouzja and more Then I think I could have gotten more than what I got but I already had little time. 27-year-old Grandelius (number 76 on the world ranking list) will … Besides his win today, he has drawn five times and those games include the world's number one and two as well as Firouzja. How to watch?The Tata Steel Chess Tournament runs January 16-31, 2021. Live. GM Alireza Firouzja also split the point with GM Nils Grandelius. All the participants made a half-step forward with the standings remaining intact. But on the other hand, it's clear that there was absolutely no reason for Alireza to get under pressure. 31 Jan 2021 Jorden van Foreest – Winner of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 This draw between the two Cs was probably the best result for Giri in his quest to win his first Tata Steel Chess Tournament. Van Foreest can look back at an excellent start for his third appearance in the Masters group in Wijk aan Zee. Anish Giri - Jorden van Foreest - Andrey Esipenko. "I'm happy but it was a very complicated game," said Esipenko. The 83rd Tata Steel Chess tournament got underway today in Wijk-aan-Zee. Thursday is the third and final rest day in Wijk aan Zee. World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen heads the field, which includes stars such as 2020 Champion Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri and 17-year-old Alireza Firouzja. I was playing badly and I was pretty unlucky so far so maybe I got a bit back today.". J van Foreest vs A Giri : ½-½: 43: 2021: Tata Steel Masters: C42 Petrov Defense: 10. Tata Steel Chess 2021: 4 Players Lead As Grandelius Stumbles; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Firouzja, Van Foreest Strike; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Grandelius Beats MVL To Reclaim 1st Place; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Fighting Draws Before 1st Rest Day; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Caruana Close To Winning Brilliancy Prize; Debutant Grandelius Leads Tata Steel Chess 2021 Firouzja managed to get these pawns into action by sacrificing a pawn. •. The 2021 Tata Steel Masters was a 14-player single round-robin held from 16-31 January at De Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. You can follow the games at chess.com/events/2021-tata-steel-masters and watch the broadcast at chess.com/tv. Check out the results, interviews and photos. Anton did come back into the game later, but in slight time-trouble, new problems arose and then he blundered a full piece. This opening involves a battle between the bishop pair and central pawns for White vs. two connected passed pawns for Black. "He has two bishops, but I have some good pawns. It seemed that both were not expecting their opponent's opening moves. "As it happens sometimes in such cases, once you get some small chances then things can go very well.". "At some point in the opening I was sort of flirting with being slightly worse but maybe it never was slightly worse," Giri described the game. I somehow managed to allow him to trade everything; it was very hard for me to see how to keep pieces on the board and the problem was I had too little time.". 12/30/2020 – Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Poland) and Nils Grandelius (Sweden) will participate in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 in January. And that mistake came. Giri, who heard about that while waiting in the studio for his wife IM Sopiko Guramishvili to end the broadcast, had put his chances at just two percent. 01 Feb 2021 Aftermovie Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021. The first round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 has been played! Vachier-Lagrave is having a bad tournament, but at least there is light at the end of the tunnel. Besides Caruana and Giri, these are the younger grandmasters GM Jorden van Foreest and Esipenko. Photo: Alina l'Ami and Jurriaan Hoefsmit/Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021. ), today we also saw giant-slayer GM Andrey Esipenko join the group of leaders, shortly before Giri moved ahead of that group. "Then, when he started some …f6, …e5 business I transitioned into a very good position. said Vachier-Lagrave with a smile, before adding: "It's definitely a good thing that it happens here and not in the Candidates but there is still a lot of work to do to make it not happen in the Candidates.". "It went to the endgame very fast and I don't think I have a real chance during the endgame. "I wanted to play a fighting game today at least. "I was trying to make things complicated by playing this opening," said Firouzja about his choice of the Classical Sicilian. All games drawn in Round Four of the Tata Steel Masters 2021 Carlsen telling #2sjakk: “I am +1 after four rounds. 29 Jan 2021 Jan Krzysztof Duda – Post Round 11 Interview. The Dutchman put himself in an excellent position with three rounds to go and when his interviewer called this a good result to stay in the race for tournament victory, Giri was quick to point out that it's the others who need to stay in the race! Unlike previous years, the 2021 event is limited to just the Masters group. The 2021 Tata Steel Masters is a 14-player single round-robin taking place from 16-31 January. and even though his moves looked OK, the Swede was slightly worse out of the opening. If there is a tie for first … He got maybe some pressure but I don't think it's anything big for him. Caruana's treatment of the Rossolimo Sicilian, with 3...e5 and 4...Bd6, was known before this game (none other than GM Magnus Carlsen played it several times!) On a day with two decisive results, the group trailing Grandelius by half a point has grown to six players. Anish Giri - Second Place Tata Steel Chess Tournament. 26 Jan 2021 Magnus Carlsen – Post Round 9 Interview 27 Jan 2021 Magnus Carlsen – Post Round 10 Interview. The reason that I got this chance was that he decided not to repeat moves in a position which is equal, but only equal because he can repeat moves, otherwise I'm much better, which happened in the game.". The latter, in his debut year, even added a third win to his score. The 2021 Tata Steel Masters is a 14-player single round-robin taking place from 16-31 January. This gambling approach paid off just seven moves down the road – the teenager collapsed after 35…Bf7? Tata Steel R9: Giri and Caruana join the lead 1/27/2021 – Three players are sharing the lead with four rounds to go at the Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, as Anish Giri and Fabiano Caruana won their games on Tuesday to join Alireza Firouzja at the top of the standings table. As we noticed in their 2018 world championship match, "chess is a draw" especially if you put some pretty decent players against each other! Tata Steel Chess january 19, 2021 Round4 . He explained in the live broadcast: "I had one move that I sort of saw but couldn't choose the right way with very little time and it turns out that the move that I was choosing between was completely winning. I think at some point he played very good. GMs Alireza Firouzja and Jorden van Foreest won their games in the sixth round in Wijk aan Zee to move up the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's standings with 3.5/6. "The opening is very double-edged, of course," he said. Eventually, they got the highly interesting Noteboom Variation of the Semi-Slav on the board, named after the talented Dutch player Daniel Noteboom, who sadly died of pneumonia at age 21 in 1932. "It's a draw of, course, but he doesn't want to go into three against two [pawns] obviously, and the smallest problems are unpleasant because it's a completely drawn position," Giri said. "I didn't do this on purpose if that's the question!" Grandelius had reason to be disappointed as he missed a big opportunity in that endgame. "This was definitely not preparation, I don't think my opponent played this system before. "Probably by that point, it's really close to winning, if not won. The ninth round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 has been played! "I sort of got what I wanted from the opening; usually in this line White is a little bit better but I have the bishop pair and, in that sense, I have some long-term chances. Russian teenager Andrey Esipenko did in his first attempt what a lot of people will take almost a lifetime to achieve - beat the world champion Magnus Carlsen in his very first Classical encounter. We were both in time-trouble, and he made the final mistake.". Check out the results, interviews and photos. Besides the excellent developments for the Dutch fans (will this be Giri's year? 27 Jan 2021 Portrait Magnus Carlsen. Tata Steel Chess 2021: 4 Players Lead As Grandelius Stumbles; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Firouzja, Van Foreest Strike; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Grandelius Beats MVL To Reclaim 1st Place; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Fighting Draws Before 1st Rest Day; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Caruana Close To Winning Brilliancy Prize; Debutant Grandelius Leads Tata Steel Chess 2021 Unfortunately, it was also the first to end in a draw. For starters, Donchenko thought for eight and a half minutes on his fourth move, and then Firouzja took almost five minutes for his answer. I think when I played 13…b6 I blundered about, conservatively estimated [laughs], three things.". For this game, the world champion played more solidly in the opening: an Italian, instead of his Caro-Kann with 4...Nf6 in Stavanger. On Friday the Dutch no. Tata Steel Masters sjakkturnering LIVE med computeranalyser på chess24.com. "I thought I would have an advantage from afar but once I got there it suddenly seemed like very little. Eventually, the players reached an endgame with rooks and opposite-colored bishops, which was better for Caruana simply because his bishop was better than the one of Grandelius. The first round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 has been played! Carlsen drew his fifth game in a row, this time missing a big chance against GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, the player who had beaten him at Norway Chess and ended his 125-game unbeaten streak. I wanted to play a fighting game today at least. Commentator GM Robert Hess had been more optimistic than Giri himself, giving the Dutchman as much as 25 percent of winning the endgame because it was so unpleasant for Black. "Things like this happen. Firouzja is fully back in business after his first-round loss, and Van Foreest, enjoying an unbeaten plus-one score, is there as well. It was pointed out to MVL that both Caruana in 2018 and GM Sergey Karjakin in 2016 had bad Wijk aan Zee tournaments before winning the Candidates. All rounds start at 14:00 CET (5 a.m. Pacific) except for the final round that starts an hour earlier. World Champion Magnus Carlsen was again heading the field, which included Top 10 stars Vachier-Lagrave and Caruana, as well as young stars Firouzja and Esipenko. Tata Steel Chess january 19, 2021 Round4 . The much-anticipated 2021 edition of the Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee was an all-around success, providing chess enthusiasts with high-quality games and an exciting final day of action. Jorden van Foreest defeated Nils Grandelius in round 13 to catch up with Anish Giri, who managed to hold a draw from a worse position against David Anton. Grandelius vs. Firouzja was quite the game as well, with the co-leader taking some risks as Black against the former tournament leader. His thoughts are probably already on the big game that awaits him on Friday when he faces Carlsen. Anish Giri took the sole lead in the 2021 Tata Steel Masters with 3 rounds to go after ending a long grind against Radek Wojtaszek with a killer tactic. After six hours of defending, tournament leader GM Nils Grandelius held the draw vs. GM Fabiano Caruana to maintain his lead in the tournament. He was a little better, but the game was always very complicated. But then he did what a top grandmaster does these days (and following Carlsen's example): continue pushing, trying, and hoping the opponent might still make a mistake. Check out the results, interviews and photos. the big game that awaits him on Friday when he faces Carlsen. Official Award & Closing Ceremony - Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021. Starts at 13:00 UTC. 2021: Tata Steel Masters: B90 Sicilian, Najdorf: 8. I think he missed this stuff a3-b4 and after that, I think I had some advantage. "It's a bit frustrating to be honest," said Carlsen. The players had their fourth and final COVID-test right after their game today, even before getting interviewed. A Donchenko vs Caruana: 0-1: 32: 2021: Tata Steel Masters: D12 … OK, he's probably going to h7, and that makes sense.". 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The double pawn sacrifice he went for in the opening—behind-the-board inspiration to avoid his opponent's preparation—was just wonderful. He was close to losing yet another game, but Donchenko failed to deliver the knockout blow in the middlegame and then got outplayed in an equal queen endgame. You can follow the games at chess.com/events/2021-tata-steel-masters and watch the broadcast at chess.com/tv. The organizers of the event took a major risk in putting together an over-the-board tournament amid the worldwide crisis, and luckily managed to overcome all the obstacles that … Firouzja takes sole lead. Despite the withdrawal of Nepomniachtichi, Dubov, and Abdusattorov (replaced by Wojtaczek, Donchenko and Grandelius) the field is a very interesting mix of established and promising players. ", He liked his chances but found it hard to get more out of this game than a draw: "I just didn't see a way to break his defences.". The fourth round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 has been played! 1/31/2021 – The Tata Steel Chess Tournament took place on January 16-31 as an over-the-board 14-player single round robin. I don't think this is how Black is supposed to approach the opening, but there were so many options that I wasn't really sure.". 1 plays Black against Magnus Carlsen, who blundered a pawn but lived to tell the tale against world no. 18 Jan 2021 Jan Krzysztof Duda – Post Round 3 Interview The 18-year-old Russian GM beat GM David Anton to get to 6.5/10 and a shared second place. Things started to go wrong for Anton when he played 21...Nh5. The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.It was called the Hoogovens tournament from its creation in 1938 until the sponsor Koninklijke Hoogovens merged with British Steel … "I thought I made a couple of natural moves in the opening, and I ended up in a very unpleasant position, so something must have gone very wrong, and this was surprising," said Grandelius. Van Foreest knew he had to take his round-six opponent seriously. "Somewhere he had the advantage, I think. Tata Steel Chess 2021: 4 Players Lead As Grandelius Stumbles; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Firouzja, Van Foreest Strike; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Grandelius Beats MVL To Reclaim 1st Place; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Fighting Draws Before 1st Rest Day; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Caruana Close To Winning Brilliancy Prize; Debutant Grandelius Leads Tata Steel Chess 2021 "For this game I really went into it thinking I should get a complicated game, keep as many pieces on the board as possible, trying to play according to my style," said Van Foreest. "Of course I played so badly in the opening stage and early middlegame, I really didn't expect to win this game," said MVL. The game continued with some nice tactical shots, but only after the queens were traded, the world champion could have reached a highly promising double-rook endgame if he had found he subtle 36...Kf7!

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