"I sort of got what I wanted from the opening; usually in this line White is a little bit better but I have the bishop pair and, in that sense, I have some long-term chances. Check out the results, interviews and photos. How to watch?The Tata Steel Chess Tournament runs January 16-31, 2021. Things started to go wrong for Anton when he played 21...Nh5. "Of course I played so badly in the opening stage and early middlegame, I really didn't expect to win this game," said MVL. All games drawn in Round Four of the Tata Steel Masters 2021 Carlsen telling #2sjakk: “I am +1 after four rounds. 1/31/2021 – The Tata Steel Chess Tournament took place on January 16-31 as an over-the-board 14-player single round robin. Anton did come back into the game later, but in slight time-trouble, new problems arose and then he blundered a full piece. Besides the excellent developments for the Dutch fans (will this be Giri's year? Grandelius had reason to be disappointed as he missed a big opportunity in that endgame. Tata Steel Chess january 19, 2021 Round4 . 18 Jan 2021 Jan Krzysztof Duda – Post Round 3 Interview And that mistake came. I think at some point he played very good. The position soon resembled a Zaitsev Ruy Lopez, but with a black rook strangely misplaced and stuck on h5 and a knight on the queenside somewhat out of play. Russian teenager Andrey Esipenko did in his first attempt what a lot of people will take almost a lifetime to achieve - beat the world champion Magnus Carlsen in his very first Classical encounter. Magnus Carlsen wins his first game, as … This gambling approach paid off just seven moves down the road – the teenager collapsed after 35…Bf7? 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You can follow the games at chess.com/events/2021-tata-steel-masters and watch the broadcast at chess.com/tv. This draw between the two Cs was probably the best result for Giri in his quest to win his first Tata Steel Chess Tournament. Besides Caruana and Giri, these are the younger grandmasters GM Jorden van Foreest and Esipenko. All the participants made a half-step forward with the standings remaining intact. Giri, who heard about that while waiting in the studio for his wife IM Sopiko Guramishvili to end the broadcast, had put his chances at just two percent. For starters, Donchenko thought for eight and a half minutes on his fourth move, and then Firouzja took almost five minutes for his answer. "When I saw the pairings at first, I thought: that's a tough start of the tournament, especially because I start with a couple of more blacks, so this was definitely testing at the beginning.… I was very happy when I got 2.5/5," said the Dutchman. But on the other hand, it's clear that there was absolutely no reason for Alireza to get under pressure. 1 plays Black against Magnus Carlsen, who blundered a pawn but lived to tell the tale against world no. I’ve had worse starts before, both in ’19 & ’20.” #TataSteelChess. As we noticed in their 2018 world championship match, "chess is a draw" especially if you put some pretty decent players against each other! "I didn't do this on purpose if that's the question!" Harikrishna vs A Esipenko : ½-½: 47: 2021: Tata Steel Masters: B12 Caro-Kann Defense: 9. The game continued with some nice tactical shots, but only after the queens were traded, the world champion could have reached a highly promising double-rook endgame if he had found he subtle 36...Kf7! "Somewhere he had the advantage, I think. 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How to watch?The Tata Steel Chess Tournament runs January 16-31, 2021. 27 Jan 2021 Magnus Carlsen – Post Round 10 Interview. On a day with two decisive results, the group trailing Grandelius by half a point has grown to six players. Anish Giri - Jorden van Foreest - Andrey Esipenko. Tata Steel Chess 2021: 4 Players Lead As Grandelius Stumbles; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Firouzja, Van Foreest Strike; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Grandelius Beats MVL To Reclaim 1st Place; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Fighting Draws Before 1st Rest Day; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Caruana Close To Winning Brilliancy Prize; Debutant Grandelius Leads Tata Steel Chess 2021 Unlike previous years, the 2021 event is limited to just the Masters group. I think when I played 13…b6 I blundered about, conservatively estimated [laughs], three things.". 26 Jan 2021 Magnus Carlsen – Post Round 9 Interview The 2021 Tata Steel Chess tournament has inevitably been very different from previous years due to the pandemic, but few things were more unusual than a last round in which the only two games that were irrelevant to the final standings included Carlsen-MVL, a clash between the World Champion and world no. … 12/30/2020 – Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Poland) and Nils Grandelius (Sweden) will participate in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 in January. You can follow the games at chess.com/events/2021-tata-steel-masters and watch the broadcast at chess.com/tv. "Things like this happen. All rounds start at 14:00 CET (5 a.m. Pacific) except for the final round that starts an hour earlier. It's remarkable that after 10 rounds there are still four players who didn't lose a single game. Unfortunately, it was also the first to end in a draw. 2 Fabiano Caruana. "I was very surprised by 21…Nh5. The 2021 Tata Steel Masters is a 14-player single round-robin taking place from 16-31 January. Andrey Esipenko - Third Place Tata Steel Chess Tournament. We were both in time-trouble, and he made the final mistake.". The time control is 100 minutes for 40 moves followed by 50 minutes for 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment per move from move 1. "It's a draw of, course, but he doesn't want to go into three against two [pawns] obviously, and the smallest problems are unpleasant because it's a completely drawn position," Giri said. Rest days: 20, 25 and 28 January. Duda vs N Grandelius: 0-1: 40: 2021: Tata Steel Masters: A30 English, Symmetrical: 11. "I thought I made a couple of natural moves in the opening, and I ended up in a very unpleasant position, so something must have gone very wrong, and this was surprising," said Grandelius. The game between GM Alexander Donchenko and Firouzja was fascinating from the beginning. Firouzja managed to get these pawns into action by sacrificing a pawn. His thoughts are probably already on the big game that awaits him on Friday when he faces Carlsen. I think he missed this stuff a3-b4 and after that, I think I had some advantage. The ninth round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 has been played! Carlsen got a slight edge out of the opening based on an isolated queen's pawn for White. The Dutchman put himself in an excellent position with three rounds to go and when his interviewer called this a good result to stay in the race for tournament victory, Giri was quick to point out that it's the others who need to stay in the race! Tata Steel Masters sjakkturnering LIVE med computeranalyser på chess24.com. The time control is 100 minutes for 40 moves followed by 50 minutes for 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment per move from move 1. Besides his win today, he has drawn five times and those games include the world's number one and two as well as Firouzja. which netted White a pawn. For this game, the world champion played more solidly in the opening: an Italian, instead of his Caro-Kann with 4...Nf6 in Stavanger. Featuring: Carlsen, Caruana, Vachier-Lagrave, Giri, Firouzja and more World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen heads the field, which includes stars such as 2020 Champion Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri and 17-year-old Alireza Firouzja. Official Award & Closing Ceremony - Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021. "I somehow overestimated my position when I'm a pawn up," he said. 01 Feb 2021 Aftermovie Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021. "He has two bishops, but I have some good pawns. Tata Steel R9: Giri and Caruana join the lead 1/27/2021 – Three players are sharing the lead with four rounds to go at the Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, as Anish Giri and Fabiano Caruana won their games on Tuesday to join Alireza Firouzja at the top of the standings table. Firouzja is fully back in business after his first-round loss, and Van Foreest, enjoying an unbeaten plus-one score, is there as well. I don't know for sure," said Van Foreest. Caruana's treatment of the Rossolimo Sicilian, with 3...e5 and 4...Bd6, was known before this game (none other than GM Magnus Carlsen played it several times!) ... a new chess game will not be opened in all your current tabs. He got maybe some pressure but I don't think it's anything big for him. Magnus Carlsen again heads the field, which includes Caruana and MVL. Tata Steel R9: Giri and Caruana join the lead 1/27/2021 – Three players are sharing the lead with four rounds to go at the Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, as Anish Giri and Fabiano Caruana won their games on Tuesday to join Alireza Firouzja at the top of the standings table. Meanwhile, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won his first game in the tournament after surviving a bad position vs. GM Alexander Donchenko. J van Foreest vs A Giri : ½-½: 43: 2021: Tata Steel Masters: C42 Petrov Defense: 10. "This was definitely not preparation, I don't think my opponent played this system before. On Friday the Dutch no. After six hours of defending, tournament leader GM Nils Grandelius held the draw vs. GM Fabiano Caruana to maintain his lead in the tournament. The first round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 has been played! On a day with two decisive results, the group trailing Grandelius by half a point has grown to six players. 27 Jan 2021 Portrait Magnus Carlsen. "I was under pressure for the last four hours, clearly, so definitely a relief!" Van Foreest can look back at an excellent start for his third appearance in the Masters group in Wijk aan Zee. Van Foreest knew he had to take his round-six opponent seriously. "When he touched the knight, I thought: Where is he going? ", He liked his chances but found it hard to get more out of this game than a draw: "I just didn't see a way to break his defences.". "I'm happy but it was a very complicated game," said Esipenko. 29 Jan 2021 Jan Krzysztof Duda – Post Round 11 Interview. Tata Steel Chess january 19, 2021 Round4 . GMs Alireza Firouzja and Jorden van Foreest won their games in the sixth round in Wijk aan Zee to move up the Tata Steel Chess Tournament's standings with 3.5/6. Anish Giri took the sole lead in the 2021 Tata Steel Masters with 3 rounds to go after ending a long grind against Radek Wojtaszek with a killer tactic. With three rounds to go, GM Anish Giri is the sole leader at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. Magnus Carlsen again heads the field, which includes Caruana and MVL. Tata Steel Chess 2021: 4 Players Lead As Grandelius Stumbles; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Firouzja, Van Foreest Strike; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Grandelius Beats MVL To Reclaim 1st Place; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Fighting Draws Before 1st Rest Day; Tata Steel Chess 2021: Caruana Close To Winning Brilliancy Prize; Debutant Grandelius Leads Tata Steel Chess 2021 That’s not good, but quite okay. Commentator GM Robert Hess had been more optimistic than Giri himself, giving the Dutchman as much as 25 percent of winning the endgame because it was so unpleasant for Black. A Donchenko vs Caruana: 0-1: 32: 2021: Tata Steel Masters: D12 …