Hoogovens chess tourney (Corus)

The 73rd edition coming up next friday(14th January)!

I'm especially interested to see how Giri will perform in the A group and Hammer in the B group.
And no doubt Shirov will produce some fine puzzling games.

Apparently these days it's called 'Tata steel chess' 😕
For me it'll always remain Hoogovens.
'Tata' 😕 toettoet 😛

toet.

It will be very good tournament with 4 best players of the world

always hoping for aronian. maybe this will be his tournament?

Nakamura ftw!

The 73rd Tata Steel Chess Tournament will be held 14 January - 30 January 2011 in Wijk aan Zee.

http://www.tatasteelchess.com/

Wijk aan Zee Chess tournament.

Participants Group “A”: Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 2814); Viswanathan Anand (Ind, 2810); Levon Aronian (Arm, 2805); GM Vladimir Kramnik (Rus, 2784); Alexander Grischuk (Rus, 2773); Hikaru Nakamura (USA, 2751); Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr, 2744); Ian Nepomniachtchi (Rus, 2733); Wang Hao (Chn, 2731); Alexei Shirov (Esp, 2722); Maxime Vachier—Lagrave (Fra, 2715); Anish Giri (Ned, 2686); Jan Smeets (Ned, 2662); Erwin l’Ami (Ned, 2628).

Tomorrow (today actually) at 13.30 the fun begins! 🙂

Group B:
GM Radek Wojtaszek POL
GM David Navara CZE
GM Laurant Fressinet
GM Zahar Efimenko UKR
GM Wesley So PHL
GM Gabriel Sargissian ARM
GM Le Quang Liem VNM
GM Luke McShane ENG
GM Surya Ganguly IND
GM Li Chao CHN 2649
GM Jon Ludvig Hammer NOR
GM Vlad Tkachiev FRA
GM Friso Nijboer NLD
GM Wouter Spoelman NLD

Group C:
GM Murtas Kazhgaleyev KAZ
GM Ivan Ivanisevic SRB
GM Mark Bluvshtein CAN
GM Daniele Vocaturo ITA
GM Dariusz Swiercz POL
IM Ilya Nyzhnyk UKR
GM Katherina Lahno UKR
IM Roeland Pruijssers NED
IM Benjamin Bok NLD
IM Robin van Kampen NLD
GM Sebastian Siebrecht GER
IM Mark van der Werf NLD
IM Jan Willem de Jong NLD
IM Tania Sachdev IND

toet.

Smeets beets Shirov in 49 ply

Originally posted by ketchuplover
Smeets beets Shirov in 49 ply

Amazing ....

Originally posted by ivanhoe
Amazing ....

Even more amazing is that Teletekst (Dutch Ceefax) has not bothered to put up that game, going for Carlsen's grandmaster draw instead. Gah. Why they even bother to cover the tournament when they clearly don't give a flying cattle-manure shall probably always remain beyond my comprehension.

Richard

Playchess has commentary by GM Daniel King for free today. Good stuff.

carlsen vs giri, 22 moves and 0-1?!! big oops for the OLD guy!

Why not f3? tia

Originally posted by ketchuplover
Why not f3? tia

Because after Qa4, White's rook is still left hanging.

But it's not fair! These grandmasters have all the best moves, surely they could do us patzers the honour of leaving us the "throw away your knight" tricks for our exclusive use? Must they then have everything? It's cruel of Magnus to deprive us of our one area of expertise (one I myself am particularly good at, too), and I protest most strenuously!

Richard

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Because after Qa4, White's rook is still left hanging.

But it's not fair! These grandmasters have all the best moves, surely they could do us patzers the honour of leaving us the "throw away your knight" tricks for our exclusive use? Must they then have everything? It's cruel of Magnus to deprive us of our one area of expertise (one I myself am particularly good at, too), and I protest most strenuously!

Richard

Don't hurt yourself 🙂