Tata Steel chess tournament 2012 |
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Thursday, 12 January 2012 11:44 |
Tata Steel 2012will take place 13-29 January 2012 in 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.
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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