Tata Steel Chess Tournament .....

The 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament: 13 - 29 January 2012 in Wijk aan Zee.

Participants of grandmaster group A



Carlsen, Magnus

NOR

2835


Aronian, Levon

ARM

2805


Radjabov, Teymour

AZE

2773


Topalov, Veselin

BUL

2770



Karjakin, Sergey

RUS

2769


Ivanchuk, Vassily

UKR

2766


Gashimov, Vugar

AZE

2761


Nakamura, Hikaru

USA

2759


Gelfand, Boris

ISR

2739


Caruana, Fabiano

ITA

2736


Kamsky, Gata

USA

2732


Giri, Anish

NED

2714


Navara, David

CZE

2712


Van Wely, Loek

NED

2692

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Right! Very exciting - a very strong tournament with some interesting players.

Here's the list of pairings: wijk aan zee pairings:

http://www.chessdom.com/tata-steel-chess-2012-pairings

Ivanchuck is a spectacle to behold. He can either be the best among the elite, or the worst, depending on the tournament.

Also it's interesting to me that he plays over 100 tournament games a year, every year, but still gets unbelievably nervous at the board.

Carlsen might be the obvious pick for a winner and he is indeed my favourite. Who do you think wins the tournament??

Originally posted by watchyourbackrank
Carlsen might be the obvious pick for a winner and he is indeed my favourite. Who do you think wins the tournament??

Aronian and Carlsen to tiebreaker.

Q

Originally posted by PhySiQ
Aronian and Carlsen to tiebreaker.

Q

No Kramnik? I hope Kamsky does well, he plays the London.

Toppy has dropped over 30 points. What's up with that? In that rarefied atmosphere, you don't gain OR lose points that quickly.

Also, where is Anand?

Originally posted by sonhouse


Also, where is Anand?

preparing for Gelfand match?

Originally posted by watchyourbackrank
preparing for Gelfand match?

Yeah, that makes sense.

Originally posted by watchyourbackrank
preparing for Gelfand match?

Then, why is Gelfand over here? Shouldn't he need preparing even more? Or has he accepted that the match is a lost cause?

Richard

(Or maybe he just likes snert that much. Yum, snert. Made a pan myself this evening. Luverly.)

I'm curious to see how Anish Giri will perform ... Today he won the game against Gelfand .... a good start.

Ivanchuk.

In that lineup he would be fiirst or last.

Know one knows about him.

Maybe the only player Kasparov feared in his prime.

Best player never to be world champ?

Originally posted by hedonist


Best player never to be world champ?

Carlsen?
Guilio Polerio?
Tartakower?
Jacob Henry Sarratt?
El Morro
Rubenstein?
La Bourdonnais?
Ruy Lopez Segura?
Paolo Boi?
Alexandre Deschapelles?
Leonardo da Cutri?
Pedro Damiano?
Alessandro Salvio?
Johann Allgaier?

What about Giaochino Greco?

And the irish folk would give a hurrah for Alexander McDonnell!
I'd probably be drop kicked for not mentioning Paul Morphy... but the world still considered him a champion...so I don't think he counts 🙂

Q

Originally posted by PhySiQ
Carlsen?
Guilio Polerio?
Tartakower?
Jacob Henry Sarratt?
El Morro
Rubenstein?
La Bourdonnais?
Ruy Lopez Segura?
Paolo Boi?
Alexandre Deschapelles?
Leonardo da Cutri?
Pedro Damiano?
Alessandro Salvio?
Johann Allgaier?

What about Giaochino Greco?

And the irish folk would give a hurrah for Alexander McDonnell!
I'd probably be drop kicked for ...[text shortened]... l Morphy... but the world still considered him a champion...so I don't think he counts 🙂

Q

You didn't mention Paul Keres.

Originally posted by PhySiQ
Carlsen?
Guilio Polerio?
Tartakower?
Jacob Henry Sarratt?
El Morro
Rubenstein?
La Bourdonnais?
Ruy Lopez Segura?
Paolo Boi?
Alexandre Deschapelles?
Leonardo da Cutri?
Pedro Damiano?
Alessandro Salvio?
Johann Allgaier?

What about Giaochino Greco?

And the irish folk would give a hurrah for Alexander McDonnell!
I'd probably be drop kicked for ...[text shortened]... l Morphy... but the world still considered him a champion...so I don't think he counts 🙂

Q

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