Tata Steel 2017

[Carl Hibbard]

I don't get much today.

[JustinHorton]

It's got a little last-round-in-the-U140 feel to it, for sure...

[Carl Hibbard]

Anyone like to try and predict the tournament winner some 5 rounds from the end?

SO just calmly proceeding to the end.

I claim my prize.

[Jonathan Rogers]

Smirin has lost and none of the others in the top 4 look like winning either. Maybe a draw for Gawain will do it? One would hope so, since a win is not on the cards.

[Mick Norris]

Ragger & Xiong have now drawn, so Gawain needs to find a way to draw

[JustinHorton]

Doesn't look like the sort of -1.5 where you have a lot of chances to mix it up.

[Paul Cooksey]

perhaps Gawain hallucinated a perpetual, having seen all three of his rivals drawing

[Roger de Coverly]

Doesn't look like the sort of -1.5 where you have a lot of chances to mix it up.

The stockfish at chessbomb seems to be finding lines where White can use the Queen actively without succumbing to a forced repetition. I' would suspect there's a lot of play still to come. One engine line lead to a position where White had Queen, Knight and e pawn against Black's Queen, g and h pawn.

[Jonathan Rogers]

In a human game, the result is not yet obvious. But 44...Nxe4 was something of a miss, which hopefuly he will not come to regret.

All the contenders today probably wish they could have played Nepo instead

[Matt Mackenzie]

Don't think Magnus ever actually had a win there?

[JustinHorton]

No, but I don't suppose that's the view he'll be taking.

[LawrenceCooper]

Ragger & Xiong have now drawn, so Gawain needs to find a way to draw

Drawn by perpetual check after 64 moves

http://www.tatasteelchess.com/players/c ... -standings

[JustinHorton]

Mark Crowther thinks he's beaten Ragger on tiebreak and hence plays in the Masters next year.

[Nick Burrows]

Yes, as the first tiebreak was mutual scores. Congratulations on a lot of hard work paying off!

[Mick Norris]

Great save from Gawain, and an excellent tournament overall; not sure he's played 13 rounds of this kind of strength; a whole year to prepare for playing in the A group next January, let's hope he can have an impact like Adhiban has this year