Tata Steel Chess 2012-Comeback event for Timman, Sadler, Topalov!

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Hello everyone,

The Tata Steel Chess 2012 is set to begin on January 13 and run till January 2 Wijk Aan Zee. It is the first super chess tournament of the year with two players from the 2800 club – Carlsen and Aronian – and multiple grandmasters from the 2700 list.
Among the participants is the winner of last year’s Tata Steel – GM Hikaru Nakamura, the co-winner of Tata B, GM David Navara, and the winner of Tata C GM Daniele Vocaturo.The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2012 has three main tournaments. They are played according to the ’round robin’ system, whereby each competitor plays in turn against every other during the tournament. All three Grandmaster groups have 14 players and start on January 13th. All rounds begin at 13.30 hours, except for the last round on January 29th, which begins at 12.00 hours. There are rest days: on January 18th, 23rd, and 26th.

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.

Also, the event is going to be a comeback of sorts by Jan Timman, Matthew Sadler, and Veselin Topalov.

Official website: http://www.tatasteelchess.com/

Tata Steel A 2012
GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 2823
GM Levon Aronian ARM 2807
GM Sergey Karjakin RUS 2772
GM Veselin Topalov BUL 2768
GM Vasily Ivanchuk UKR 2765
GM Vugar Gashimov AZE 2756
GM Gata Kamsky USA 2756
GM Hikaru Nakamura USA 2753
GM Teymour Radjabov AZE 2752
GM Boris Gelfand ISR 2746
GM Anish Giri NED 2722
GM Fabiano Caruana ITA 2712
GM David Navara CZE 2705
GM Loek van Wely NED 2689

Tata Steel B 2012
GM Alexander Motylev RUS 2690
GM Lazaro Bruzon CUB 2682
GM Pentala Harikrishna IND 2672
GM Vladimir Potkin RUS 2671
GM Sergey Tiviakov NED 2647
GM Dimitri Reinderman NED 2594
GM Erwin l’Ami NED 2592
GM Sipke Ernst NED 2581
GM Illya Nyzhnik UKR 2561
GM Jan Timman NED 2555
GM Kateryna Lahno UKR 2554
GM Daniele Vocaturo ITA 2537
GM Viktorija Cmilyte LIT 2525
GM Harika Dronavalli IND 2505

Tata Steel C 2012
GM Maxim Turov RUS 2643
GM Matthew Sadler ENG 2625
GM Hans Tikkanen SWE 2591
GM Daan Brandenburg NED 2522
GM Elina Danielian ARM 2517
IM Sahaij Grover IND 2514
WGM Elisabeth Paehtz GER 2461
WGM Tania Sachdev IND 2419
Pieter Hopman NED 2351
Lars Ootes NED 2340
WIM Lisa Schut NED 2290
WIM Anne Haast NED 2264
FM Etienne Goudriaan NED 2250

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Max Euwe chess memorial event begins with Jan Timman simul

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Hi everyone,


The Max Euwe chess tournament begins in the beautiful city of Amsterdam. But ahead of the start of the event, one of the greatest chess players, GM Jan Timman, played a simul. After the simul the drawing of lots took place. In group A we will see the following games on Monday: Peng-Cramling and Olafsson-van der Sterren In group B we have the games Socko-van Kampen and Conquest- Arakhamia. You can follow the games live on the tournament website: www.euwetoernooi.nl. After the ceremony, Paul van der Sterren presented his massive biography in the Dutch language “Zwart op wit”. New in Chess publisher Allard Hoogland handed over the first copy of the book.

 The Jan Timman simul

You can read the preview of the event at our post:

Remembering world chess champion Max Euwe

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Edouard wins inventi Chess Open, Timman second

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Hello everyone,


The latest chess news from www.chessvibes.com is that Romain Edouard has won the Inventi GM Tournament in Antwerp, Belgium on Sunday. The French grandmaster finished on 7/9, half a point more than the legendary Jan Timman who was the only player to stay undefeated. The 6th InventiChess tournament took place September 3-11 in the office space of the sponsor in Antwerp, Belgium.

 The legendary Grandmaster Jan Timman

Inventi, a sales and management consultancy company, has a strong link with chess in Belgium. In July they were the main sponsor of the Belgian Championships for the second time, and last week they sponsored their own main tournament for the sixth time.


They are approaching chess sponsorship in quite a unique way with what they call 'CEO-InventiChess': four times a year 'CEO Chess' events are organised, where CEOs meet each other to play some chess, enjoy a nice dinner and thereby have lots of chances to network in a pleasant environment.


The main tournament was a 10-player round robin (FIDE category IX) and the rate of play was 40 moves in 90 minutes plus 30 minutes to finish the game, with 30 seconds increment from move 1. There were three ladies: GM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant and IMs Anastasia Savina and Elisabeth Paehtz. Against the latter, Van der Wiel drew in the second round and then he said: "Ouch, I really have to fight to avoid losing against these ladies, this was very different 20-30 years ago."


Incidentally, 20-year-old Romain Edouard was the only player rated higher than 2600, and indeed finished clear first. He started strongly with four out of four and was already a full point ahead of Timman, but in the next round the legendary Dutchman defeated the French GM to catch him in the standings.

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