Wijk aan Zee Tata Steel 13 to 29 January 2023

[Mick Norris]

Carlsen, Ding, Caruana, Giri, So, Rapport, Aronian, Duda, Gukesh, Erigaisi, Abdusattorov, Keymer, Jorden van Foreest and Praggnanandhaa.

[Alan Atkinson]

It does look like it will be another fantastic event.
And in the Masters, with the exception of Aronian only I think, Carlsen will be the oldest player!

[LawrenceCooper]

It does look like it will be another fantastic event.
And in the Masters, with the exception of Aronian only I think, Carlsen will be the oldest player!

"Great selection of young talents, only Aronian saving me from being the oldest player in the field"
https://twitter.com/MagnusCarlsen/statu ... 8834972672

[Matt Mackenzie]

Inevitably, the absence of a certain young player will also be noted.

[JustinHorton]

Who would be ideal for the tournament.

[Mick Norris]

Tata Steel Challengers: Salem Saleh, Tabatabaei, Sindarov, Donchenko, Pechac, L’Ami, Warmerdam, Yilmaz, Supi, Baskaran, Mishra, Beerdsen, Vaishali and Roebers.

[Mick Norris]

Duda replaced by Maghsoodloo

[MJMcCready]

Should make for good viewing.

[Steven DuCharme]

Once again I turned them down after they didn't ask me. I have standards.

[Paul Habershon]

To save me the trouble of looking it up, who was the last British player in the Tata Masters or Challengers and how did they do?

[IM Jack Rudd]

Gawain Jones, 5/13 in the Masters in 2018 (having won the Challengers the previous year).

[Matt Mackenzie]

Maybe five years on, he doesn't get helpfully reminded of *that* game with Carlsen every day?

[Alan Atkinson]

Well I'm off to the Dutch coast.

[Mick Norris]

Tata Steel Challengers: Salem Saleh, Tabatabaei, Sindarov, Donchenko, Pechac, L’Ami, Warmerdam, Yilmaz, Supi, Baskaran, Mishra, Beerdsen, Vaishali and Roebers.

Salem Saleh replaced by Velimir Ivic

[Alan Atkinson]

It does look like it will be another fantastic event.
And in the Masters, with the exception of Aronian only I think, Carlsen will be the oldest player!

"Great selection of young talents, only Aronian saving me from being the oldest player in the field"
https://twitter.com/MagnusCarlsen/statu ... 8834972672

And so tonight we had the drawing of numbers : Carlsen v Aronian tomorrow; with jokes about the two oldies playing each other before they have to face the youngsters.