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Tata Steel Masters (2015) Played in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands 10-25 January 2015, with Round 5 in Rotterdam (15 January) and Round 10 in Den Haag (21 January). Rest days: 14, 19 and 22 January. The rounds began at 1:30 pm, except in Rotterdam and Den Haag (2 pm). Round 13 started at 12:00. Time control: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 50 more minutes for the next 20 moves, followed by 15 more minutes to finish the game, with 30 seconds added per move from move 1. Tournament category: XX (2746). Chief arbiter: Aart Strik. Magnus Carlsen won with 9/13. Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 1 Carlsen 2862 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 9 2 Vachier-Lagrave 2757 ½ * 1 ½ 1 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 8½ 3 Giri 2784 ½ 0 * 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 8½ 4 So 2762 ½ ½ 0 * ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 8½ 5 Ding Liren 2732 ½ 0 0 ½ * ½ 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8½ 6 Ivanchuk 2715 ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 7½ 7 Caruana 2820 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ * ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 7 8 Radjabov 2734 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 6 9 Wojtaszek 2744 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 * ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 5½ 10 Aronian 2797 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 5½ 11 Yifan Hou 2673 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 1 5 12 Saric 2666 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ * ½ 1 4½ 13 Van Wely 2667 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ * ½ 4 14 Jobava 2727 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 ½ * 3 Official site: https://web.archive.org/web/2015020... Crosstable: https://history.tatasteelchess.com/... Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/car... ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/carls... chess24: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t... TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnew... FIDE: https://ratings.fide.com/tournament... Previous: Tata Steel Masters (2014). Next: Tata Steel Masters (2016). See also Tata Steel Challengers (2015)  page 2 of 4; games 26-50 of 91  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 26. Jobava vs Saric 0-1 38 2015 Tata Steel Masters D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 27. Radjabov vs Ding Liren 0-1 40 2015 Tata Steel Masters E90 King's Indian 28. Van Wely vs Carlsen 0-1 44 2015 Tata Steel Masters D76 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O Nb6 29. Ding Liren vs Ivanchuk ½-½ 26 2015 Tata Steel Masters D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 30. Giri vs Jobava 1-0 36 2015 Tata Steel Masters E97 King's Indian 31. Carlsen vs Aronian 1-0 47 2015 Tata Steel Masters D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation 32. Vachier-Lagrave vs Van Wely   ½-½ 60 2015 Tata Steel Masters B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen 33. Wojtaszek vs Caruana 1-0 47 2015 Tata Steel Masters A88 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with c6 34. So vs Y Hou ½-½ 66 2015 Tata Steel Masters D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation 35. Saric vs Radjabov 0-1 60 2015 Tata Steel Masters C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense 36. Ivanchuk vs Saric ½-½ 49 2015 Tata Steel Masters D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 37. Radjabov vs Giri ½-½ 26 2015 Tata Steel Masters B48 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 38. Van Wely vs Aronian ½-½ 30 2015 Tata Steel Masters A45 Queen's Pawn Game 39. Y Hou vs Wojtaszek ½-½ 35 2015 Tata Steel Masters B20 Sicilian 40. Jobava vs So 0-1 39 2015 Tata Steel Masters C53 Giuoco Piano 41. Caruana vs Carlsen 0-1 39 2015 Tata Steel Masters B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation 42. Vachier-Lagrave vs Ding Liren 1-0 45 2015 Tata Steel Masters B12 Caro-Kann Defense 43. Giri vs Ivanchuk ½-½ 102 2015 Tata Steel Masters D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 44. Saric vs Vachier-Lagrave 0-1 32 2015 Tata Steel Masters B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 45. Wojtaszek vs Jobava 0-1 37 2015 Tata Steel Masters E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 46. So vs Radjabov ½-½ 41 2015 Tata Steel Masters D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 47. Aronian vs Caruana ½-½ 47 2015 Tata Steel Masters E53 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 48. Ding Liren vs Van Wely 1-0 79 2015 Tata Steel Masters A35 English, Symmetrical 49. Carlsen vs Y Hou 1-0 54 2015 Tata Steel Masters B32 Sicilian 50. Jobava vs Carlsen 0-1 50 2015 Tata Steel Masters A01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack  page 2 of 4; games 26-50 of 91    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 60 OF 142 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-17-15    MarkFinan: <<MissScarlett: Yasser is so gay.>> Great contribution. I didn't come here looking for the results. Hell no, I wanted to know if Yasser was gay!? Jan-17-15    ChessMan94: <lainulo> Still, the computer in Chess24.com has him winning. :) Jan-17-15    lainulo: no big deal if Magnus wins here. He's playing a girl. Jan-17-15    ChessMan94: <lainulo> Carlsen is playing someone close to 200 points lower than him who happens to be a girl. Jan-17-15    fokers13: no eruption today either:P Jan-17-15    lainulo: wesley is squeezing the juice out of the lemon. Will he be able to drink the lemonade? Jan-17-15    Appaz: <<MissScarlett> Yasser is so gay.> Or humble and civilized as some would call it. Disregarding the fact that he probably could make you talk <into> your own a$$ too. How gay is that? Jan-17-15    lainulo: apparently, he will not be drinking lemonade for today. Anyway, a good result considering Radjabov was a boy. Wesley remains one of only 3 unbeaten players. If Giri and Ivanchuk's game ends decisively, only two will remain undefeated at this juncture of the tournament. Jan-17-15    varishnakov: Seirawan is of course married to a woman. Jan-17-15    chancho: Some people assume that a person speaking a certain way makes him gay. I've seen guys who talk as manly as John Wayne, and they prefer male company rather than the female persuasion. Jan-17-15    Absentee: <Appaz: <<MissScarlett> Yasser is so gay.> Or humble and civilized as some would call it. Disregarding the fact that he probably could make you talk <into> your own a$$ too. How gay is that?> He's suave. By the way, has anyone noticed the irony in a guy with the handle <MissScarlett> and a pin up-like picture calling Seirawan gay? Jan-17-15    chancho: Carlsen is starting to penetrate Hou's position by slow degrees. Something's bound to crack. (Do not think that!) Jan-17-15    lainulo: some possibilities: magnus draws with Hou Giri wins over ivanchuk Ding draws or loses then there would be 4 way tie at the top including Wesley with 4.5 out of 7. Included in the group would be Lagrave, Magnus, Giri and ofcourse Wesley. Jan-17-15    Appaz: A history lesson for the clueless: Seirawan was the one who single handedly saved Gormally from a beating by a bunch of Armenians in the Caoili incident in the Turin Olympiad 2006: http://en.chessbase.com/post/party-... Jan-17-15    fokers13: since we're apparently guesstimating: Carlsen win Giri-Chucky draw Van Wely win (and noone cares but putting this in here anyways) Aronian-Caruana draw Jan-17-15    SimonWebbsTiger: Somebody serve Hou some green pea soup! She looks like she is freezing. Thermo top, scarf and now her jacket. Jan-17-15    john barleycorn: She is sitting across Mr. Freeze. Jan-17-15    SimonWebbsTiger: interesting to see her body language, btw. She is whispering to herself and has spent lots of time running her pen over the moves she has kept score. Jan-17-15    Appaz: The game are maybe going well for Carlsen, but the same can't be said of the date: Hou has out on a scarf and a winter jacket! Jan-17-15    chancho: Carlsen in form is scary. Just sit down and sign the darn scoresheet before you sit down to play him. Jan-17-15    SimonWebbsTiger: @<Appaz> with re. to the fight, it is worth remembering Yasser is quite big/ strong. He was chatting with Matthew Sadler earlier about fitness. Yaz, although he didn't mention it, pumped iron as a youth. Jan-17-15    Kanatahodets: As Yasser said: what Magnus is capable to do is scary. Well, we have the real world champ for sure. His limits are still expanding. Need So or Wei Yi to catch him. BTW Wei Yi destroyed Ian today. The guy is scary as well. What is he? 15 yrs old I guess. Jan-17-15    keypusher: What Carlsen is doing with c4-c5 and Nd3 (allowing ...Qxe4) is weirdly reminiscent of Fischer-Najdorf game from 1966. Fischer vs Najdorf, 1966 Jan-17-15    Appaz: <<SimonWebbsTiger> Yasser is a black belt in Karate. What strikes me as his best trait is not his fitness, but his spirituality. One manifestation of this is his mild mannered being - or gayness as <MissScarlett> would call it. Jan-17-15    keypusher: Incidentally, the comments on chessbomb make YouTube sound like Plato's symposium. Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 142) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 60 OF 142 ·  Later Kibitzing> NOTE: Create an account today to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users. Becoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! If you already have a username, then simply login login under your username now to join the discussion. 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