Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee 15-31 January 2016

[Mick Norris]

A bit of an outside bet?

Artemiev

[Mick Norris]

Wei Yi will meet Carlsen at Wijk aan Zee Jan 2016, Ding Liren and Hou Yifan also play as does Mickey Adams

First game between Wei Yi and Carlsen?

[Roger de Coverly]

12 of the 14 players

The other two will be qualifiers as described at the Tata Steel site

http://www.tatasteelchess.com/news/view ... ament_2016

Magnus Carlsen 2850 1 Norway
Fabiano Caruana 2787 6 USA
Ding Liren 2781 8 China
Anish Giri 2778 9 The Netherlands
Wesley So 2767 10 USA
Sergey Karjakin 2766 11 Russia
Michael Adams 2744 18 Great Britain
Shakhryar Mamedyarov 2743 20 Azerbaijan
Wei Yi 2737 23 China
David Navara 2730 29 Czech Republic
Hou Yifan 2683 61 China
Loek van Wely 2632 139 The Netherlands

[Mick Norris]

Probably deserves its own thread

Magnus Carlsen plays, plus Fabiano Caruana, Ding Liren, Anish Giri, Wesley So and Sergey Karjakin, Michael Adams, Shakhryar Mamedyarov, David Navara, Hou Yifan and Loek van Wely - 2 more to be added

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They move away from Wijk aan Zee twice, to play at the Science Center NEMO in Amsterdam on 21st Jan and the Railway Museum in Utrecht on 27 Jan

[Jonathan Rogers]

It really does seem that Van Wely will have to fall below 2600 in order for his participation to be in doubt!

[Mick Norris]

Not surprising though? It's a Dutch tournament, and there isn't much between the players behind Giri

Netherlands (Active players)

# Name Title Fed Rating G B-Year
1 Giri, Anish g NED 2778 18 1994
2 Sokolov, Ivan g NED 2642 0 1968
3 Van Wely, Loek g NED 2632 0 1972
4 L'Ami, Erwin g NED 2623 19 1985
5 Van Kampen, Robin g NED 2617 1 1994
6 Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2608 18 1973
7 Smeets, Jan g NED 2605 2 1985
8 Bok, Benjamin g NED 2591 19 1995
9 Reinderman, Dimitri g NED 2590 2 1972
10 Spoelman, Wouter g NED 2584 1 1990

[Jonathan Rogers]

but it's always van Wely in particular!

[Tim Harding]

This year Wijk aan Zee didn't clash with Gibraltar and a couple of players (Wei Yi, in the second section, and Hou Yifan if I recall correctly) played both. In 2016 there will be several days with rounds in both events.
Gibraltar is headed by Anand, Nakamura, MvL, Li Chao, Harikrishna, Wojtaszek, and Yu Yangyi according to the current list of entries. David Howell is next on the list.

[Mick Norris]

Magnus Carlsen plays, plus Fabiano Caruana, Ding Liren, Anish Giri, Wesley So and Sergey Karjakin, Michael Adams, Shakhryar Mamedyarov, David Navara, Hou Yifan and Loek van Wely - 2 more to be added

Pavel Eljanov & Evgeny Tomashevsky complete the lineup

Participants

[Mick Norris]

Challengers complete

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live games

Starts Saturday 16 Jan 2016

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Pairings:
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Challengers

[Mick Norris]

Round 1 - Saturday the 16th
Hou, Y. - Karjakin, S.
So, W. - Giri, A.
Ding, L. - Adams, M.
Navara, D. - Carlsen, M.
Caruana, F. - Eljanov, P.
Wei, Y. - Tomashevsky, E.
Mamedyarov, S. - Van Wely, L.

Carlsen is black against Wei Yi on Monday and white v Caruana on Sunday

[Tim Harding]

Play starts 1230 GMT.
Note the time control info from the official website:

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.

[Roger de Coverly]

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.

That might be one of the few remaining bastions of the concept of the seven hour plus session. It's been abandoned by the British Championships, the 4NCL and this year Hastings.

[Mick Norris]

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.

That might be one of the few remaining bastions of the concept of the seven hour plus session. It's been abandoned by the British Championships, the 4NCL and this year Hastings.

Same time control as Gibraltar - and the Candidates is using 40/2 hours, 20/hour then 15 m +30 sec from move 61