| Tata Steel Masters (2020) |
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The 2020 Tata Steel Masters was a 14-player single round-robin taking place from 11-26 January in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. World Champion Magnus Carlsen again headed the field, which included Top 10 stars Caruana, Giri and So as well as 5-time World Champion Anand. A lot of the focus was on the young stars - Duda, Artemiev, Xiong, and above all the 16-year-old Firouzja, who made his super-tournament debut. As well as the traditional venue in Wijk aan Zee, one round was played in the PSV football stadium in Eindhoven (Round 5, 16 January). The time control was 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. If there was a tie for first place, the top two after tiebreaks would play a 2-game blitz (5+3) playoff and, if still tied, an Armageddon game, while the monetary prizes would be shared evenly. Chief organizer: Jeroen van den Berg. Chief arbiter: Pavel Votruba. No playoff was necessary: Fabiano Caruana won the event for the first time with 10/13. Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4
1 Caruana 2822 * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 10
2 Carlsen 2872 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 8
3 So 2765 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 7½
4 Van Foreest 2644 ½ ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 1 1 ½ 7
5 Dubov 2683 0 ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 7
6 Giri 2768 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 6½
7 Anand 2758 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 6½
8 Duda 2758 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 6½
9 Firouzja 2723 0 0 0 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ * 1 1 ½ ½ 1 6½
10 Xiong 2712 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 * 1 ½ ½ 0 6
11 Artemiev 2731 0 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 * 1 ½ 1 6
12 Vitiugov 2747 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ 5
13 Yu Yangyi 2726 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 4½
14 Kovalev 2660 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 ½ ½ * 4
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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_...Previous: Tata Steel Masters (2019). Next: Tata Steel Masters (2021). See also Tata Steel Challengers (2020) and Tata Steel Qualifiers (2020)
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Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. Carlsen vs Giri |
 | ½-½ | 25 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | A22 English |
| 2. Xiong vs Dubov |
 | ½-½ | 52 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation |
| 3. J van Foreest vs Y Yu |
| 1-0 | 75 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | B40 Sicilian |
| 4. Caruana vs So |
| ½-½ | 33 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | D94 Grunfeld |
| 5. Anand vs V Artemiev |
| ½-½ | 31 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | B12 Caro-Kann Defense |
| 6. Vitiugov vs Duda |
| ½-½ | 58 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | B59 Sicilian, Boleslavsky Variation, 7.Nb3 |
| 7. Firouzja vs V Kovalev |
| 1-0 | 36 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
| 8. Duda vs Firouzja |
| ½-½ | 39 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | D20 Queen's Gambit Accepted |
| 9. Y Yu vs Carlsen |
| ½-½ | 31 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | B90 Sicilian, Najdorf |
| 10. V Artemiev vs Vitiugov |
| 1-0 | 50 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | A06 Reti Opening |
| 11. Dubov vs V Kovalev |
| 1-0 | 39 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | A19 English, Mikenas-Carls, Sicilian Variation |
| 12. Xiong vs J van Foreest |
| 1-0 | 36 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack |
| 13. Giri vs Caruana |
| ½-½ | 63 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical |
| 14. So vs Anand |
| 1-0 | 26 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | C53 Giuoco Piano |
| 15. Carlsen vs Xiong |
| ½-½ | 56 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | D41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch |
| 16. V Kovalev vs Duda |
| ½-½ | 32 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack |
| 17. Anand vs Giri |
| ½-½ | 21 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense |
| 18. Vitiugov vs So |
| ½-½ | 39 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | C83 Ruy Lopez, Open |
| 19. Firouzja vs V Artemiev |
| 1-0 | 57 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | B12 Caro-Kann Defense |
| 20. J van Foreest vs Dubov |
| 1-0 | 47 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | B22 Sicilian, Alapin |
| 21. Caruana vs Y Yu |
| 1-0 | 48 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | C43 Petrov, Modern Attack |
| 22. So vs Firouzja |
| 1-0 | 47 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | D27 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical |
| 23. J van Foreest vs Carlsen |
| ½-½ | 45 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | C58 Two Knights |
| 24. Y Yu vs Anand |
| ½-½ | 32 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation |
| 25. Dubov vs Duda |
| ½-½ | 23 | 2020 | Tata Steel Masters | E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3 |
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| Jan-23-20 | | WorstPlayerEver: <perfidious>
Oh sorry, I did not know who <Geoff> was. Silly me. |
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| Jan-23-20 | | botvinnik64: Looks like advantage to Caruana going into the home stretch: he has the lead and the (slightly) easier pairings. Still... |
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| Jan-23-20 | | WorstPlayerEver: I have this Yifan Hou erlebnis. |
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Jan-23-20
 | | AylerKupp: <<Sally Simpson> Who ever organised the this draw has fixed Tata Steel Chess.> Pairings in tournaments are done by a combination of the procedures described in https://escacs.cat/images/comite/ar..., section 5, where the players' numbers are assigned by the drawing of lots prior to the start of the tournament. So the fact that players played Carlsen and Caruana in successive rounds can be blamed on (a) FIDE (of course!) and (b) Lady Luck (another person typically blamed when we don't like the results). But perhaps you could say, as I often have, that neither FIDE nor Lady Luck have fixed Tata Steel Chess, it's just as broken as ever. |
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| Jan-23-20 | | WorstPlayerEver: "We somehow always hit the needle in the haystack." ~FIDE |
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Jan-23-20
 | | Annie K.: I'm thinking Duda-Carlsen may be a more interesting pairing for tomorrow's live relay than Kovalev-Caruana. First three to vote will decide! ;) |
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| Jan-23-20 | | rogge: Good thinking ;) |
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Jan-23-20
 | | chancho: <AnnieK> great idea. |
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| Jan-23-20 | | Pedro Fernandez: Thanks <Messiah> for you reply. You know, I have never learned how to reconcile in the same set: joke, satire and praise (at least these three ones). I think you have that masterful virtue. BTW, Will see and We''ll see are the same thing on the context. I understand the sarcasm, you know, those circulating posts. Greetings. |
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Jan-23-20
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi Perfidious,
Missed it, thought it was probably mentioned elsewhere. Hi.W.P.E,
Geoff is my sober name!
Hi AylerKupp,
The next step is to do a New York 1924.
See the top of page 5
https://static1.squarespace.com/sta... "They didn’t even know what color they would have each day or who their opponent would be until a drawing was held fifteen minutes before their clocks were started. (This helps explain Réti’s collapse in the tournament’s second half. Due to luck of the drawing he had five Blacks in a row.)" You would only know for certain who you were playing in the last round. We would not know what live game had been chosen until it started. |
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Jan-23-20
| | AylerKupp: <<Sally Simpson> Thanks for the link to the New York 1924 tournament excerpt. I'm always astounded at your ability to find information like this. And poor Reti. The probability of getting 5 Black's in a row is 0.03125 assuming, of course, that whatever mechanism they used to select the color was fair. Do you know if Reti complained about his 5 Blacks in a row? But, since this was a double round robin tournament Reti would have gotten an equal number of Whites as Black's. Could his good start have been the result of getting a string of Whites in the first half of the tournament? It would be interesting to see a round-by-round list of pairings. |
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| Jan-23-20 | | Pedro Fernandez: A couple months ago, I was analyzing here an interesting game. I was analyzing that one by using Arena, SF and few of my ideas. It results that I did copy erroneously a FEN, but I didn't realize. So my great friend <devere> and another friend (at this moment, I don't remember who, sorry) make a criticism about my analysis, which it was wrong by an involuntary error (BTW, it was not a serious error, but that was not the line I did want to publish!) What did do I? Just reply them explaining the issue. But, you can be sure that I would have deleted it. On the other side, if it was a move that I put it wrong, I delete it and publish the correct one, if I publish an incorrect phrase in English, I delete it, try to put the correct one, and sometimes I ask! What happens if we publish a serious blunder? I usually apologize. Do you want to delete it? Do it!
But in some hard posts to other people, if you think you were very hard, ask for sincere apologies. If you do not do it, and delete it, we will be worse and in passing everyone will notice. Not worth it. So my dear friends, as you can see, I'm Pedro The ''Deleter''! (lol!). |
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Jan-23-20
 | | Diademas: <Annie K.> +1 |
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| Jan-23-20 | | Count Wedgemore: Three <Hip Hip Hoorays> for <Annie>! |
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Jan-23-20
 | | moronovich: Good thinking <Annie K> All the boys in the class room send you flowers and chocolate ! |
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Jan-23-20
 | | juan31: Thanks < Annie K > |
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| Jan-23-20 | | Jambow: <No wonder he is leading, Carlsen has soften them and whilst recovering Caruana has waded in to pick up the pieces.> Trying to figure out if that comment is tongue in cheek or head in.... I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt on this ;0] |
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Jan-23-20
 | | HeMateMe: most fun I've had in chess in the past ten years: in Harold Square, Manhattan, NYC (34th street/6th Ave) someone had set up a giant, chalk drawn chess board on the street, where huge chess pieces are set up. Two players play a game in which they grab these three foot high chess men and carry them across the board (you have to run out onto the middle of the chessboard and carry a three foot tall plastic pawn from e2-e4), following all of the rules of classical chess. I jumped in. the Rules were 10 minutes to a side, no increments. I think I had to pay $10 to play. There had to be 200 people watching. The game was balanced for about 20 moves, both of us running back and forth, carrying our men and captures--you had to drag captured pieces off to the side of the board and then hit a GIANT sized chess clock to start your opponent's clock, ten minutes to a side. I saw something--I sacrificed a pawn to get connected rooks on the 8th rank and flush out my opponent's king, I got that S.O.B. out to the 4th rank, with a really happening minor piece attack (queens were off the board). But then, I ran out of time. It was summer time, 80 degrees in NYC. my shirt was soaked. My opponent was 30 years younger than me and he won on time but I almost beat his ass. We got a BIG ovation from the crowd. Really, really exhilarating. If you ever get the chance to play a public game (at speed chess controls) with giant size men and board I highly recommend it. |
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Jan-24-20
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi Jambow,
it does not make sense to me either, and I wrote it. Basically in rounds 2,3,4,5, 8,9,10,11,12,and 13 Caruana's opponent will have played Carlsen (or are going to play Carlsen) in the previous round. They will still be Carlsen-Shocked, (a bit like shell-shocked only without the bang!) and having been 'softened up' Caruana gets an easier game. (it's a joke not a serious observation.) 'soften up' was apparently a Schiller phrase use to describe the same coincidence when Karpov's opponents have met Kasparov in the previous round at Linares 1994. Linares (1994) (kibitz #11) *** |
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| Jan-24-20 | | frankumber: To LJ:
comment section for comments on chess not ramblings on forever and never ending.
Glad to see MC is finally doing something besides drawing and playing it lame/safe. Best, FU |
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| Jan-24-20 | | LameJokes: < frankumber: To LJ:
comment section for comments on chess not ramblings on forever and never ending. Glad to see MC is finally doing something besides drawing and playing it lame/safe.
Best, FU>
Thanks. Yeah nice tussle between Carlsen and Caruana for the first position. Great event. |
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| Jan-24-20 | | Jambow: <They will still be Carlsen-Shocked, (a bit like shell-shocked only without the bang!) and having been 'softened up' Caruana gets an easier game. (it's a joke not a serious observation.)> I'm glad in your case Geoff that I doubted you were being too serious I'm not sure in the other. Magnus has such an impressive record because he only plays opponents who are rated lower than he is. In seriousness maybe we get Caruana Carlsen 2.0 next WC match. I just feel Caruana has to put losing on the line and push positions because of the elite players he suffers from the biggest drop off in performance when at faster time controls and Magnus is actually even better. Problem is Magnus is now his strongest ever in the middle game the one phase Caruana had perhaps a small advantage last time Anyway no worries.
Go So!!! |
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| Jan-24-20 | | Jambow: <HeMateMe> Sounds like great fun and a workout for the mind and body, I would require a defibrillator be handy in my case... Next time whack him with the Bishop even if they disqualify you the psychological advantage in the next game should be worth it. :0] |
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Jan-24-20
 | | perfidious: Firouzja goes down to defeat vs Anand from an ending featuring opposite bishops in which his experienced opponent apparently better judged the unbalanced position. Been a rough go of it these last three rounds for the youngster, but on such tough stretches will eventual successes be built. 'Tis a brutal school indeed at top level. |
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Jan-24-20
| | chancho: Carlsen, Caruana, (and now Anand) taking turns flushing Alireza's head in the toilet. Those darned elites! |
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