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Tata Steel is one of the most prestigious chess tournaments with a long tradition since 1938. Initially, it was called Hoogovens Tournament and was held in Beverwijk (the Netherlands). Since 1968 it is held in the small town of Wijk aan Zee. After the Dutch steel and aluminium producer Koninklijke Hoogovens merged with British Steel to form the Corus Group, the tournament was given the name Corus Tournament (2000-2010), and after Corus Group was purchased by Tata Steel, since 2011 the tournament is called Tata Steel.Tata Steel traditionally attracts the top chess players from around the world. The 76th Tata Steel will see 5 players from the top 10 (Levon Aronian, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruaba, Boris Gelfand and Sergey Karjakin), and the average rating of the players is 2743.
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament has two main tournaments played according to the 'round robin' system. The Grandmaster group A has 12 players and the Grandmaster group B has 14 players. Both groups start on January 11th 2014.
The time control is: 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.
Interesting facts
Viswanathan Anand holds the record of Hoogovens/Corus/Tata Steel tournament victories: 5 in total (1989, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2006), 3 of which shared.Johannes Donner has played the record number of games at the tournament - total of 298 between 1950 and 1975, followed by Jan Timman with 260 played between 1972 and 2004.
The record for most wins is also achieved by Johannes Donner with 85 wins, followed by Anand with 66 and Timman with 62.
Anand also holds the record for most consecutive games played at the tournament without a loss - 70 games between 1998 and 2004.
All-time Winners
1938 – Netherlands Philip Bakker
1939 – Netherlands Nicolaas Cortlever
1940 – Netherlands Max Euwe
1941 – Netherlands Arthur Wijnans
1942 – Netherlands Max Euwe
1943 – Netherlands Arnold van den Hoek
1944 – Netherlands Theo van Scheltinga
1945 – no tournament
1946 – Belgium Alberic O'Kelly de Galway
1947 – Netherlands Theo van Scheltinga
1948 – Netherlands Lodewijk Prins
1949 – France Savielly Tartakower
1950 – Netherlands Jan Hein Donner
1951 – Argentina Herman Pilnik
1952 – Netherlands Max Euwe
1953 – France Nicolas Rossolimo
1954 – Netherlands Hans Bouwmeester and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vasja Pirc
1955 – Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Borislav Milić
1956 – Sweden Gideon Stahlberg
1957 – Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Aleksandar Matanović
1958 – Netherlands Max Euwe and Netherlands Jan Hein Donner
1959 – Iceland Friðrik Ólafsson
1960 – Denmark Bent Larsen and Soviet Union Tigran Petrosian
1961 – Denmark Bent Larsen and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Borislav Ivkov
1962 – Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Petar Trifunović
1963 – Netherlands Jan Hein Donner
1964 – Soviet Union Paul Keres and Soviet Union Iivo Nei
1965 – Hungary Lajos Portisch and Soviet Union Efim Geller
1966 – Soviet Union Lev Polugaevsky
1967 – Soviet Union Boris Spassky
Hoogovens. Wijk aan Zee
1968 – Soviet Union Viktor Korchnoi
1969 – Soviet Union Mikhail Botvinnik and Soviet Union Efim Geller
1970 – Soviet Union Mark Taimanov
1971 – Soviet Union Viktor Korchnoi
1972 – Hungary Lajos Portisch
1973 – Soviet Union Mikhail Tal
1974 – United States Walter Browne
1975 – Hungary Lajos Portisch
1976 – Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Ljubomir Ljubojević and Iceland Friðrik Ólafsson
1977 – Netherlands Genna Sosonko and Soviet Union Efim Geller
1978 – Hungary Lajos Portisch
1979 – Soviet Union Lev Polugaevsky
1980 – United States Walter Browne and United States Yasser Seirawan
1981 – Netherlands Genna Sosonko and Netherlands Jan Timman
1982 – United Kingdom John Nunn and Soviet Union Yuri Balashov
1983 – Sweden Ulf Andersson
1984 – Soviet Union Alexander Beliavsky and Switzerland Viktor Korchnoi
1985 – Netherlands Jan Timman
1986 – United Kingdom Nigel Short
1987 – United Kingdom Nigel Short and Switzerland Viktor Korchnoi
1988 – Soviet Union Anatoly Karpov
1989 – India Viswanathan Anand, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Predrag Nikolić, Hungary Zoltán Ribli and Hungary Gyula Sax
1990 – United Kingdom John Nunn
1991 – United Kingdom John Nunn
1992 – Belarus Boris Gelfand and Russia Valery Salov
1993 – Russia Anatoly Karpov
1994 – Bosnia and Herzegovina Predrag Nikolić
1995 – Russia Alexey Dreev
1996 – Ukraine Vassily Ivanchuk
1997 – Russia Valery Salov
1998 – Russia Vladimir Kramnik and India Viswanathan Anand
1999 – Russia Garry Kasparov
Corus tournament
2000 – Russia Garry Kasparov
2001 – Russia Garry Kasparov
2002 – Russia Evgeny Bareev
2003 – India Viswanathan Anand
2004 – India Viswanathan Anand
2005 – Hungary Péter Lékó
2006 – Bulgaria Veselin Topalov and India Viswanathan Anand
2007 – Armenia Levon Aronian, Azerbaijan Teimour Radjabov and Bulgaria Veselin Topalov
2008 – Armenia Levon Aronian and Norway Magnus Carlsen
2009 – Ukraine Sergey Karjakin
2010 – Norway Magnus Carlsen
Tata Steel tournament
2011 – United States Hikaru Nakamura
2012 – Armenia Levon Aronian
2013 – Norway Magnus Carlsen
Links
Tata Steel official webpage - News archiveWikipedia: Tata Steel
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