Tata Steel Masters 2023

1. Magnus Carlsen NOR
2. Ding Liren CHN
3. Fabiano Caruana USA
4. Anish Giri NED
5. Wesley So USA
6. Richard Rapport ROU
7. Levon Aronian USA
8. Parham Maghsoodloo IRI
9. Dommaraju Gukesh IND
10. Arjun Erigaisi IND
11. Nodirbek Abdusattorov UZB
12. Vincent Keymer GER
13. Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa IND
14. Jorden Van Foreest NED

85th Tata Steel Masters 2023

85th Tata Steel Challengers 2023

The 2023 edition

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is one of the most prestigious events in the international chess calendar. The “Wimbledon of Chess” attracts the very best chess grandmasters in the world, along with thousands of amateur players, live event visitors and online visitors from around the world. In 2023, the Tata Steel Chess Tournament celebrates its 85th year.

Tata Steel Chess 2023 | Round 1 | Commentary by Laurent Fressinet & Peter Svidler

Carlsen, Caruana, Ding, So + Chess’ ELITE Square Off In Tata Steel Chess Masters 2023! | RD 1

With both the number one and number two in the world (Magnus Carlsen and Ding Liren), five top 10 players and a total of eight top 20 players, the Masters group of the jubilee edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament has a very strong field of participants. The 85th edition promises to be an exciting battleground, as a number of great talents are also present to compete with the world class players. The tournament will take place from 13 to 29 January 2023 in Dorpshuis de Moriaan, Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands.

Schedule and rate of play

The Grandmasters will play against each other in 13 rounds in a round-robin tournament, round one starting Saturday the 14th of January. All rounds start at 14:00 hours CET, except for the final round on Sunday 29 January. This round starts at 12:00 hours CET.

Rest days for the Masters group are scheduled on Wednesday 18 (Challengers will play round five this day), Monday 23 and Thursday 26 January.

On Thursday 19 January the fifth round of the Masters group will be played in another host city during Chess on Tour. More information about Chess on Tour will follow soon.

The rate of play 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.

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The 2022 FTX Crypto Cup sees Magnus Carlsen, Alireza Firouzja, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Liem Le, Hans Niemann and Praggnanandhaa gather in the Eden Roc Miami Beach Hotel in Miami, Florida for the 2nd Major on the $1.6 million Meltwater Champions Chess Tour.

$210,000 and a $100,000 Bitcoin bonus is at stake in the 7-round all-play-all tournament. Each match consists of 4 rapid games on the chess24 Playzone, with the winner earning $7,500 (3 points). If the match is tied there’s a blitz tiebreak, with 2 blitz games followed, if needed, by a single Armageddon game.

The winner earns $5,000 (2 points) and the loser $2,500 (1). For each rapid game the players have 15 minutes for all their moves, with a 10-second increment after each move. For blitz games it’s 5 minutes and a 3-second increment, while for the Armageddon game White has 5 minutes to Black’s 4, but a draw counts as a win for Black. No draw offers are allowed before move 40.

Official website: chess24.com

FTX Road to Miami begins this Sunday

Levon Aronian, Richard Rapport and Anish Giri are among the star players competing in the FTX Road to Miami, the 5th event on the $1.6 million Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. The 16-player tournament starting on chess24 this Sunday, July 10th is a prelude to the 2nd Major of the Tour, the FTX Crypto Cup, which will be held in Miami, Florida, with World Champion Magnus Carlsen returning and a $210,000 prize fund plus a $100,000 Bitcoin bonus.

Champions Chess Tour: FTX Road to Miami | Day 1 | Commentary by Peter Leko & Lawrence Trent

The FIDE Candidates Tournament is barely over, but the big events just keep on coming. The 5th stage of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, the FTX Road to Miami, starts at 18:00 CEST on Sunday July 10th, with Levon Aronian top seed. Here are his Day 1 pairings.

As you can see, he’s facing two established stars in Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Anish Giri, as well as Women’s World Champion Ju Wenjun and 18-year-old Indian prodigy Arjun Erigaisi.

The field features three of the Candidates — Teimour Radjabov, Richard Rapport and Jan-Krzysztof Duda, while Radoslaw Wojtaszek is making his tour debut alongside young US stars Jeffery Xiong and Sam Sevian. In fact there are no less than six US players, including Leinier Dominguez, Sam Shankland and 19-year-old Hans Niemann.

Check out the full pairings for all 15 rounds of the preliminary stage of the $150,000 tournament below.

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Green Light Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 will take place in De Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee from 15 – 31 January 2021.

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Tournament director Jeroen van den Berg: “I am very happy that the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 is on. So many chess events have been cancelled worldwide or turned into rapid tournaments since this spring that players and chess aficionados alike are really pining for big tournaments that actually take place behind the chess board. Well, the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 will be exactly catering to their tastes. And the strong field of participants will undoubtedly lead to spectacular games.”

Tata Steel Masters:

1. Magnus Carlsen
2. Fabiano Caruana
3. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
4. Anish Giri
5. Alireza Firouzja
6. Jan-Krzysztof Duda
7. Pentala Harikrishna
8. Alexander Donchenko
9. Radoslaw Wojtaszek
10. David Anton Guijarro
11. Andrey Esipenko
12. Jorden Van Foreest
13. Nils Grandelius
14. Aryan Tari

Anish Giri participating

Holland’s best chess player, Anish Giri (currently no 11 in the world ranking) will take part in the Tata Steel Masters again in January. Together with Jeroen van den Berg he will announce the other participants on the website of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in the coming period.

Special set-up

Since only the 14 top chess players of the Tata Steel Masters will be playing in De Moriaan, a special set-up has been created, in which the grandmasters will literally be at the centre of everybody’s attention. All possible precautions will be taken to ensure a COVID-19 safe event for players, staff and possible visitors. Screens will separate the arena in which the grandmasters will play from the rest of the hall and there will be a dedicated entry for the players. Whether or not (limited numbers of) spectators will be allowed to attend the event depends on the corona measures that will be in place during the tournament.

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Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Champion, Breaks the
Rules of Chess as a Symbol for Equality

In chess, white always goes first. And by going first, you have an
advantage over your opponent. But why should colour determine
who starts and gets the advantage?

On the International Day for the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination, the rules of chess have been rewritten for a day.

Dusseldorf, 21st of March, 2019 –

On the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, four-time Chess World
Champion, Magnus Carlsen, and his rival, Anish Giri, flipped the board and turned the game
upside down by breaking a key rule: white moves first.

So, on this special day, black pieces make the first move.
The two men, who maintain a respectful, yet sometimes cheeky rivalry, have spoken out in
favour of equality and anti-discrimination. They have made it clear, through their symbolic
move, that nobody should have an advantage or disadvantage because of colour.
The campaign has been created with support of UNESCO’s International Coalition of
Inclusive and Sustainable Cities – ICCAR.
«We cannot change the rules of chess permanently, but we flipped the board for one game to
use chess to bring a new perspective to the discussion about equality,» says the Norwegian
Chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen.
Carlsen, who creates his own chess apps through the company Play Magnus, has also
temporarily changed the rules in the ‘Play Magnus’ app to show his support for the
campaign. The limited-time update will allow players to decide for themselves which colour
they want to start the game with. In addition, users of the Magnus Trainer app will be able to
play through ‘The Immortal Game’ -– a famous game from back in 1851 which also started
with black moving first.

Additionally, the chess community is supporting the message of equality. The website
chess24.com is hosting a black to start “Banter Blitz Marathon,” in which chess grandmasters
play with the temporary change of rule against non-professionals on the site.
With the breaking of a single, but decisive rule, as well as the hashtag #MoveForEquality, the
campaign not only writes a new chapter in chess history, but sends a strong message to both
chess lovers and the rest of the world on an international day against racism. The
accompanying film, as well as further information and material, can be found at
www.moveforequality.com.

How you can you take part

People around the world will be encouraged to share their own stories and messages of
support using the hashtag #MoveForEquality on social media.

moveforequality.com

The London Chess Classic, held from December 9th to 18th at the Olympia Conference Centre in Kensington, London, is the fourth and final leg of the Grand Chess Tour. The format is a ten-player round-robin including eight of the current top ten players in the world. The field features Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Vladimir Kramnik, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Veselin Topalov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and wild card Mickey Adams.
The prize fund is $300,000 (about €280,000) with a first prize of $75,000, plus another $100,000 and $50,000 respectively for the top two in the overall 2016 Grand Chess Tour standings. Players receive 120 minutes to make 40 moves then 60 minutes for the rest of the game with an additional 30 seconds added per move starting from move 41. In the event of a tie for first, tiebreak matches (25 mins + 5 seconds) will be played, beginning 30 minutes after the end of the last classical game.

Official websites: www.londonchessclassic.com | grandchesstour.org