2014-01-15

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:

  ScoreRatingTPR123456789101112
1Aronian, L.2.0 / 328122851  ½1   ½    
2So, W.2.0 / 327192858    ½  1   ½
3Harikrishna, P.2.0 / 327062900½     ½  1  
4Caruana, F.2.0 / 3278229080     1   1 
5Nakamura, H.2.0 / 327892863 ½        ½1
6Giri, A.2.0 / 327342840        ½½ 1
7Karjakin, S.1.5 / 327592720  ½0    1   
8Rapport, R.1.5 / 326912769½0        1 
9Van Wely, L.1.0 / 326722624     ½0  ½  
10Dominguez, L.1.0 / 327542579  0  ½  ½   
11Gelfand, B.0.5 / 327772481   0½  0    
12Naiditsch, A.0.5 / 327182474 ½  00      


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:

  ScoreRatingTPR1234567891011121314
1Jobava, B.3.5 / 427102831     1 ½    11
2Saric, I.3.0 / 426372747   1½ ½   1   
3Muzychuk, A.3.0 / 425662746   ½  ½1  1   
4Reinderman, D.2.5 / 425932743 0½     1  1  
5Bok, B.2.5 / 425602716 ½   0   1 1  
6Zhao, X.2.5 / 4256726710   1    ½   1
7Timman, J.2.0 / 426072621 ½½      1 0  
8Duda, J.2.0 / 425532604½ 0     ½   1 
9Wojtaszek, R.2.0 / 427112509   0   ½  ½  1
10Brunello, S.1.5 / 426022516    0½0    1  
11Troff, K.1.5 / 424572499 00     ½   1 
12Yu, Y.1.0 / 426772398   00 1  0    
13Van Delft, M.1.0 / 4243023450      0  0  1
14Goudriaan, E.0.0 / 4243118050    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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