Tata Steel 2014 so far - mid-tournament overview

Tata Steel 2014 started with the very sad news of the death of Vugar Gashimov (1986-2014) - one of Azerbaijan's top players, who died in Germany at the age of 27.


Gashimov at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Tata Steel tournament, which would be his last ever (ChessVibes)

Tata Steel Masters

12 players compete in Tata Steel - Masters, with an average rating of 2743. We have seen the first three rounds already. It is interesting to notice that half of the games played finished in a draw.

The intermediate standings:

		Score	Rating	TPR	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
1	Aronian, L.	2.0 / 3	2812	2851			½	1				½
2	So, W.	2.0 / 3	2719	2858					½			1				½
3	Harikrishna, P.	2.0 / 3	2706	2900	½						½			1
4	Caruana, F.	2.0 / 3	2782	2908	0						1				1
5	Nakamura, H.	2.0 / 3	2789	2863		½									½	1
6	Giri, A.	2.0 / 3	2734	2840									½	½		1
7	Karjakin, S.	1.5 / 3	2759	2720			½	0					1
8	Rapport, R.	1.5 / 3	2691	2769	½	0									1
9	Van Wely, L.	1.0 / 3	2672	2624						½	0			½
10	Dominguez, L.	1.0 / 3	2754	2579			0			½			½
11	Gelfand, B.	0.5 / 3	2777	2481				0	½			0
12	Naiditsch, A.	0.5 / 3	2718	2474		½			0	0

Tata Steel Challengers

14 players participate in Tata Steel - Challengers with an average rating of 2579, and they already played their first 4 rounds. The challengers' games have more decisive results with only 8 draws out of 28 games, with no draws in round 4.

Standings of Tata Steel Challengers:

		Score	Rating	TPR	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
1	Jobava, B.	3.5 / 4	2710	2831						1		½					1	1
2	Saric, I.	3.0 / 4	2637	2747				1	½		½				1
3	Muzychuk, A.	3.0 / 4	2566	2746				½			½	1			1
4	Reinderman, D.	2.5 / 4	2593	2743		0	½						1			1
5	Bok, B.	2.5 / 4	2560	2716		½				0				1		1
6	Zhao, X.	2.5 / 4	2567	2671	0				1					½				1
7	Timman, J.	2.0 / 4	2607	2621		½	½							1		0
8	Duda, J.	2.0 / 4	2553	2604	½		0						½				1
9	Wojtaszek, R.	2.0 / 4	2711	2509				0				½			½			1
10	Brunello, S.	1.5 / 4	2602	2516					0	½	0					1
11	Troff, K.	1.5 / 4	2457	2499		0	0						½				1
12	Yu, Y.	1.0 / 4	2677	2398				0	0		1			0
13	Van Delft, M.	1.0 / 4	2430	2345	0							0			0			1
14	Goudriaan, E.	0.0 / 4	2431	1805	0					0			0				0

Some analyses and reviews

Susan Polgar Chess Daily News and Information

Tata 03: Topsy-Turvy A, Bloody B

Caruana and Harikrishna winners on Tata Steel Day 3 (Mark Crowther)

Tata 02: Three quality wins

Five way tie after Tata Steel round 2 (Mark Crowther)

Tata Steel Chess 2014 – Round 1 – Analysis by GM Damian Lemos

Tata 01: Many mistakes, many wins

Interviews

Tata Steel Chess 2014 - En passant - Hikaru Nakamura round 3

Tata Steel Chess 2014 - En passant - Boris Gelfand round 3

Tata Steel Chess 2014 - En passant - Levon Aronian round 3

Tata Steel Chess 2014 - En passant - Richard Rapport round 3

Interview with Wesley So (Tata Steel round 2)

Tata Steel Chess 2014 En passant Hikaru Nakamura round 2

Tata Steel Chess 2014 En passant Wesley So round 1

Tata Steel Chess 2014 En passant Hikaru Nakamura round 1

Tata Steel Chess 2014 En passant Sergey Karjakin round 1

Tata Steel Chess 2014 En passant Fabiano Caruana round 1

And many more on youtube.

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