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Hoogovens chess tourney (Corus)

Hoogovens chess tourney (Corus)

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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.

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

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

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Nakamura ftw!

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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.

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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).

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

Group B:
GMRadek WojtaszekPOL
GMDavid NavaraCZE
GMLaurant Fressinet
GMZahar EfimenkoUKR
GMWesley SoPHL
GMGabriel SargissianARM
GMLe Quang LiemVNM
GMLuke McShaneENG
GMSurya GangulyIND
GMLi ChaoCHN2649
GMJon Ludvig HammerNOR
GMVlad TkachievFRA
GMFriso NijboerNLD
GMWouter SpoelmanNLD

Group C:
GMMurtas KazhgaleyevKAZ
GMIvan IvanisevicSRB
GMMark BluvshteinCAN
GMDaniele VocaturoITA
GMDariusz SwierczPOL
IMIlya NyzhnykUKR
GMKatherina LahnoUKR
IMRoeland PruijssersNED
IMBenjamin BokNLD
IMRobin van KampenNLD
GMSebastian SiebrechtGER
IMMark van der WerfNLD
IMJan Willem de JongNLD
IMTania SachdevIND

toet.

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Smeets beets Shirov in 49 ply

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Originally posted by ketchuplover
Smeets beets Shirov in 49 ply
Amazing ....

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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

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

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


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Why not f3? tia

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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

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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 🙂