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The 2011 Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee

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The Tata Steel Chess Tournament (known before as Corus Chess Tournament) takes place in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. The three Grandmaster tournaments have 14 players each.

Participants (Group A - Average rating: 2740; Category: 20): Magnus Carlsen (2814), Viswanathan Anand (2810), Levon Aronian (2805), Vladimir Kramnik (2784), Alexander Grischuk (2773), Hikaru Nakamura (2751), Ruslan Ponomariov (2744), Ian Nepomniachtchi (2733), Wang Hao (2731), Alexei Shirov (2722), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2715), Anish Giri (2686), Jan Smeets (2662), Erwin l'Ami (2628)

Format: single round-robin of 13 rounds.
Time control: 100 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the remaining moves with 30 seconds cumulative increment for each move starting from the first move.
Playing days: 15-18, 20-23, 25-26 and 28-30 January 2011.
Games begin: 1:30 PM  (12PM on 30 Jun) GMT+1 / 3:30 PM (2 PM on 30 Jun) Moscow time.

Live commentaries by GM Sergey Shipov:


Colin McGourty’s translations first appear in real time at the special “live games” page of his site “Chess in Translation” and then, after some editing, can be found at their permanent locations.

Sergey Shipov commentating live on Tata Steel Chess 2011
Rd 1: Carlsen - Aronian 1/2 - 1/2
Rd 2: Anand - Kramnik 1/2 - 1/2
Rd 3: Nakamura - Shirov 1 - 0
Rd 4: Aronian - Nepomniachtchi 1 - 0
Rd 5: Kramnik - Aronian 1/2 - 1/2
Rd 6: Giri - Nepomniachtchi 0 - 1 
Rd 7: Carlsen - Anand 1/2 - 1/2
Rd 8: Carlsen - Nakamura 1 - 0
Rd 9: Nakamura - Anand 1/2 - 1/2
Rd 10: Carlsen - Nepomniachtchi 0 - 1
Rd 11: Nepomniachtchi - Nakamura 0 - 1
Rd 12: Anand - Giri 1/2 - 1/2
Rd 13: Nepomniachtchi - Anand 1/2 - 1/2

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Live transmission

  • By Valchess at 14/01/2011 - 22:32
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