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GM Magnus Carlsen (2835 Rating)
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The Wijk Aan Zee Super GM tournament, named after its patron the Indian steel company, starts January 13, and brings a record 2754.5 Elo average, with Carlsen, Aronian, Topalov, Nakamura, as well as juniors Giri and Caruana. The B and C tournaments include eight female players as well as Timman and Nyzhnyk in the B group, and comeback kid Sadler in the C group. Preview and statistics.
GM Aronian (2805) vs. GM Carlsen (2835)
Information and schedule
This event starts with an opening ceremony on Friday January 13th. The first round is played on Saturday 14th, the last on Sunday, January 29th, 2011. The venue is as usual the traditional De Moriaan Center in Wijk aan Zee. The tournament has taken place since 1938 and was known as the Corus Chess Tournament. The Indian company Tata Steel bought Corus (for US $7.6 billion) in 2006 and the chess event way renamed accordingly. Wijk aan Zee (pronounced vyke ahn zeh – to rhyme with “bike on say”) is a small wind-swept town on the coast of the North Sea in the municipality of Beverwijk in the province of North Holland of the Netherlands. The tournament takes place in three Grandmaster Groups, with a number of amateur events being held at the same time. The three Grandmaster tournaments have 14 players each and are full round robins (each competitor plays against every other).
GM Radjabov (2773) vs. GM Kamsky (2732)
History
The event has been held since 1938, when it was a four-player round robin played on three days. The sponsor was Hoogoven and the venue Beverwijk, a town close to Wijk where many players today take their dinner. From 1940 on Max Euwe participated, but the tournament, which in 1942 turned into a six player event, and in 1943 to eight. The final year of WWII, 1945, was the only time the tournament was not staged. From 1946 it became a ten-player event, with some exceptions: 12 players in 1953, 18 in 1963, and then 16 players from 1964 onwards. In 1980 the first 14-player tournament was held (and won by Walter Brown and Yasser Seirawan), and that’s the way it stayed, with some exceptions from 1993-1995. From 1996 onwards it reverted to fourteen players and has stayed that way until today. In 1968 it moved to Wijk aan Zee, and in 2000 it was renamed Corus, after the main sponsor.
GM Topalov (2770)
Participants of Tata Steel 2012
The participants of the 74th Chess Tournament Tata Steel is the strongest of its – long and rich – history. It features eleven of the top twenty chess players in the world. With an average rating of 2754, it exceeds the previous record of 2740 held by the 2008 edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The current ‘rookie’ in the A-Group, Vugar Gashimov from Azerbaijan, is the current World number ten. Also of note is Veselin Topalov, who has played very little following his defeat in the world championship match against World Champion Anand in 2010, and Boris Gelfand, who will be Anand’s next challenger in May. The defending Tata Steel Chess champion Hikaru Nakamura from America, returns. The Dutch contribution to the A-group of the tournament is the 17-year-old Anish Giri, who is fresh from a brilliant win at Reggio Emilia just days ago, and the talented Loek van Wely, a regular in the A-Group who returns after a year’s sabbatical.
GM Karpov (2617)vs. GM Karjakin (2769)
Rate of play
For all three groups the rate of play is 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.
Location: The tournament takes place in the De Moriaan Community Centre (Dorpsduinen 4, 1949 EG Wijk aan Zee). There is running commentary on the games of the Grandmaster Groups in a special Chess Pavilion, on the Village Green in Wijk aan Zee (one minute walk from De Moriaan).
Games begin at 13:30h local time (CET), except for the last round on January 29th, which begins at 12:00h. There are three rest days, on January 18th, 23th, and 26th.
GM Vassily Ivanchuck (2766)
Commentary
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.
• Wijk winner 2011 Hikaru Nakamura
• Wijk winner 2010 Magnus Carlsen
• Wijk winner 2009 Sergey Karjakin
• Wijk winners 2008 Aronian, Carlsen
• Wijk winners 2007 Aronian, Topalov, Radjabov
• Wijk winners 2006 Anand, Topalov
• Wijk winner 2005 Peter Leko
• Wijk winner 2004 Viswanathan Anand
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