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Posted: **Tue Jan 11, 2022 11:51 am**

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Masters players

Challengers players

Schedule

Round 1 Saturday (1 pm UK time I think); rest days 19, 24, 27 January

No amateur players

Giri

Regulations

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.

Tiebreak criteria for a play-off in case more than two players share first place:

the mutual result;
the Sonneborn-Berger score;
the player with more number of games with black;
drawing of lots.
Drawing of lots will be done by the Chief Arbiter.

A tiebreak will start at 18:00 hours sharp.
There will be 5-minute breaks between the two blitz games.
In case of an Armageddon game, there will first be a drawing of lots by the arbiter, after which there will be a five-minute break.
In case one of the tiebreak Grandmasters’ final games has not finished by 17:30 hours, there will be a half-hour break between the last move in the last of these games and the start of the tiebreak.

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TWIC

Tata Steel Masters: Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Richard Rapport, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Sergey Karjakin, Santosh Gujrathi Vidit, Daniil Dubov, Andrey Esipenko, Sam Shankland, Jorden Van Foreest, Nils Grandelius and Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa.

Tata Steel Challengers: Erigaisi Arjun, Rinat Jumabayev, Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Erwin L'Ami, Thai Dai Van Nguyen, Max Warmerdam, Jonas Buhl Bjerre, Lucas Van Foreest, Daniel Dardha, Volodar Murzin, Polina Shuvalova, Marc`Andria Maurizzi, Jiner Zhu and Roven Vogel

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Posted: **Fri Jan 14, 2022 10:22 pm**

Draw is out

Karjakin v Dubov is on Sunday

Posted: **Sun Jan 16, 2022 1:06 pm**

https://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2022-ta ... nko_Andrey

Seriously?

Posted: **Sun Jan 16, 2022 1:14 pm**

"Seriously?"

I think I've seen it before. Whether it's a good idea is another matter.

Posted: **Sun Jan 16, 2022 1:31 pm**

Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 16, 2022 1:14 pm
I think I've seen it before. Whether it's a good idea is another matter.

One of our club members came up with this many years ago, or possibly the related 1. d4 Nf6 2. g4 .

I suspect you have to show that the g pawn can be safely taken to refute it.

Posted: **Sun Jan 16, 2022 1:34 pm**

Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 16, 2022 1:31 pm

Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 16, 2022 1:14 pm
I think I've seen it before. Whether it's a good idea is another matter.
One of our club members came up with this many years ago, or possibly the related 1. d4 Nf6 2. g4 .

I suspect you have to show that the g pawn can be safely taken to refute it.

If it had been an online game one might suspect a mouse slip.

Posted: **Sun Jan 16, 2022 3:37 pm**

Mick Norris wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 14, 2022 10:22 pm
Karjakin v Dubov is on Sunday

Possibly of theoretical importance given how easily Black secured the draw.

Posted: **Mon Jan 17, 2022 9:31 am**

TWIC reports round 1 and round 2

Chess Mind

Round 2 reports from chess24 and Pete Doggers

Posted: **Mon Jan 17, 2022 3:47 pm**

Giri-Mamedyarov a passably strange draw in which Black seems to have gone wrong in the opening and White seems to have spent lots of time not seeing the right way to take advantage.

EDIT: And Duda, who was never in the slightest trouble, draws with Carlsen.

FURTHER EDIT: Grandelius never at the races against Rapport.

Posted: **Mon Jan 17, 2022 4:58 pm**

Meanwhile any jury for a Disaster Of The Day award might have to choose between Dubov, passing up a perpetual against Vidit and resigning very shortly afterwards, and Karjakin, forcing a draw against Esipenko with a nice little combination that is actually a forced loss.

Posted: **Mon Jan 17, 2022 5:25 pm**

Van Foreest beats Praggnanandhaa in a rook ending which he looked capable of throwing away just before the time control, presumably because he wasn't totally confident of calculating the potential pawn endings?

Karjakin admits defeat against Esipenko, he'll be kicking himself. This just leaves Caruana v Shankland where Black has defended all day and looks likely to get his half-point for it. A decent day's play in my view. Vidit leads!

Posted: **Mon Jan 17, 2022 6:58 pm**

That missed perpetual by Dubov (quite short on time) has a beautiful mate if Vidit tries to avoid it.

First a few checks to show the perpetual and then what is forced should Vidit take the Rook (Dubov played 32.f3 to hold the Rook and Lost)

Posted: **Tue Jan 18, 2022 1:33 pm**

Karjakin and Giri knock off early

Posted: **Tue Jan 18, 2022 3:10 pm**

Covid gets a mention in Pete Doggers round 3 report

Link fixed (I hope, thanks to Justin for pointing this out)

Posted: **Tue Jan 18, 2022 3:39 pm**

That link might need a little attention (as does Schedule in the original posting!).

Shankland draws quickly with Rapport, possibly not having shared the engine's opinion that he was much better?

Caruana and Dubov draw without incident.

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