The traditional Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk Aan Zee will be held will be held from 14th to 30th January. Starting this year the competition is renamed to Tata Steel Chess.

This is the second change of name for the event in their 73 editions history. The traditional tournament has been running since 1938 under the name of Hoogovens, and was renamed later in 2000 Corus.

The format of Tata Steel Chess will be preserved. A total of 3 groups will be present (A, B, and C), with some of the top world players in the A group. Each group will preserve the 14 players round robin format. The tournament has 3 players above 2800 ELO - the current number 1 GM Magnus Carlsen, the World Champion GM Viswanathan Anand, and the 3rd in the January FIDE rating list GM Levon Aronian.

Grandmaster Group A Pairings

Round 1 - Saturday the 15th
R. Ponomariov - A. Anand
E. l'Ami - A. Giri
J. Smeets - A. Shirov
M. Carlsen - L. Aronian
H. Nakamura - A. Grischuk
M. Vachier-Lagrave - W. Hao
I. Nepomniachtchi - V. Kramnik

Grandmaster Group B Pairings

Round 1 - Saturday the 15th
V. Tkachiev - L. Fressinet
F. Nijboer - L. Chao
L. McShane - W. Spoelman
R. Wojtaszek - D. Navara
L. Liem - W. So
G. Sargissian - S. Ganguly
J. Hammer - Z. Efimenko

Grandmaster Group C Pairings

Round 1 - Saturday the 15th
M. van der Werf - B. Bok
S. Siebrecht - R. Pruijssers
I. Ivanisevic - T. Sachdev
K. Lahno - M. Bluvshtein
D. Swiercz - J.W. de Jong
I. Nyzhnyk - M. Kazhgaleyev
R. van Kampen - D. Vocaturo

Tata Steel Group A

GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 2814
GM Viswanathan Anand IND 2810
GM Levon Aronian ARM 2805
GM Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2784
GM Alexander Grischuk RUS 2773
GM Hikaru Nakamura USA 2751
GM Ruslan Ponomariov UKR 2744
GM Wang Hao CHN 2731
GM Alexey Shirov ESP 2722
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FRA 2721
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi RUS 2715
GM Anish Giri NED 2686
GM Jan Smeets NED 2662
GM Erwin l'Ami NED 2628

Tata Steel Group B

Radoslaw Wojtaszek POL 2726
David Navara CZE 2708
Laurent Fressinet FRA 2707
Zahar Efimenko UKR 2701
Gabriel Sargissian ARM 2667
Le Quang Liem VIE 2664
Wesley So PHI 2673
Luke McShane ENG 2664
Surya Ganguly IND 2651
Li Chao CHN 2649
Jon Ludvig Hammer NOR 2647
Vladislav Tkachiev FRA 2636
Friso Nijboer NED 2584
Wouter Spoelman NED 2547

Tata Steel Group C

Murtas Kazhgaleyev KAZ 2637
Ivan Ivanisevic SRB 2630
Mark Bluvshtein CAN 2590
Daniele Vocaturo ITA 2570
Ilya Nyzhnyk UKR 2530
Dariusz Swiercz POL 2540
Katherina Lahno UKR 2518
Roland Pruijssers NLD 2484
Benjamin Bok NED 2453
Robin van Kampen NED 2443
Mark van der Werf NED 2439
Sebastian Siebrecht GER 2439
Jan Willem de Jong NED 2437
Tania Sachdev IND 2391