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.
chess.comTiebreak 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.
TWIC
chess24Tata 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