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Tata Steel 2017
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2016 9:15 pm
by Mick Norris
Gawain Jones playing in the
Challengers
Re: Tata Steel 2017
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:45 pm
by Mick Norris
Starts 14 January
All rounds in Wijk aan Zee begin at 1.30pm, except for the last round on 29 January 2017, which begins at 12.00pm. Both rounds on the Chess On Tour days start at 2.00pm.
Time control
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.
On tour at Rotterdam's
Feyenoord Stadium and
Haarlem
Website
Masters features Carlsen, So, Aronian, Karjakin
Challengers features Ragger, Smirin, Gawain
Live games
Re: Tata Steel 2017
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 11:43 am
by JustinHorton
Mick Norris wrote:Starts 14 January
All rounds in Wijk aan Zee begin at 1.30pm, except for the last round on 29 January 2017, which begins at 12.00pm. Both rounds on the Chess On Tour days start at 2.00pm.
Time control
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.
On tour at Rotterdam's
Feyenoord Stadium and
Haarlem
Blimey. Not on the pitch though, one trusts.
Did anybody else play in that tournament once that was in the hospitality suite at Forest?
(Incidentally are the kick-off times GMT or CET?)
Re: Tata Steel 2017
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 5:44 pm
by Ian Kingston
JustinHorton wrote:
Did anybody else play in that tournament once that was in the hospitality suite at Forest?
Yes - Nottingham Congress 2004 and 2005 (and possibly earlier - Neil Graham would know). There were problems with the low sun in the early evening as I recall.
Re: Tata Steel 2017
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 6:37 pm
by JustinHorton
What amused me the year I played was that it took place the weekend of the play-off semi-finals, so Forest must have given up on them by the time the tournament was arranged.
Re: Tata Steel 2017
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 8:08 am
by Mick Norris
JustinHorton wrote:Mick Norris wrote:Starts 14 January
All rounds in Wijk aan Zee begin at 1.30pm, except for the last round on 29 January 2017, which begins at 12.00pm. Both rounds on the Chess On Tour days start at 2.00pm.
Time control
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.
On tour at Rotterdam's
Feyenoord Stadium and
Haarlem
Blimey. Not on the pitch though, one trusts.
Did anybody else play in that tournament once that was in the hospitality suite at Forest?
(Incidentally are the kick-off times GMT or CET?)
The football is on the pitch at Telstar's ground on the
18th
Preparations are going well, at least as far as the
cakes are concerned
I posted the times as I was sure I had read they were GMT, but based on the chess24live countdown clock, it appears they are CET and therefore rounds normally start at 12:30 pm GMT
Re: Tata Steel 2017
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 9:06 am
by Mick Norris
Preview
chess.com
Gawain starts with 2 whites
Re: Tata Steel 2017
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 9:07 pm
by Tim Harding
Chess24 commentary by Gustafsson and Svidler will be for the Premium members only.
Round one pairings.
MASTERS:
Harikrishna-Aronian
Adhiban-Van Wely
Eljanov-Rapport
Karjakin-Giri
So-Carlsen
Wojtaszek-Nepo'
Andreikin-Wei Yi
CHALLENGERS:
Jones-Grandelius
Guramishvili-Liu Shanglei
Smirin-Dobrov
Tari-Hansen
Bok-Lei Tingjie
Ragger-Xiong
J. Van Foreest-E. L'Ami
Re: Tata Steel 2017
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 9:52 pm
by Carl Hibbard
Very disappointing commentary news.
Re: Tata Steel 2017
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 10:13 pm
by Matt Mackenzie
Which is?
Re: Tata Steel 2017
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 9:11 am
by Tim Harding
Carl Hibbard wrote:Very disappointing commentary news.
Matt Mackenzie wrote:Which is?
Read the first line of my post again, Matt!
Personally as a Premium member for the past 18 months I can see why they do it and maybe a lot more people will sign up for this excellent service. The instructional videos and ebooks (much better than those on chess.com) are all free to premium members.
Re: Tata Steel 2017
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 10:55 am
by Joshua Gibbs
I think Karjakin will win this. In case noone knows, games are live on chess bomb.
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/t ... nt=cursive
Re: Tata Steel 2017
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 12:27 pm
by Carl Hibbard
Tim Harding wrote:Carl Hibbard wrote:Very disappointing commentary news.
Matt Mackenzie wrote:Which is?
Read the first line of my post again, Matt!
Personally as a Premium member for the past 18 months I can see why they do it and maybe a lot more people will sign up for this excellent service. The instructional videos and ebooks (much better than those on chess.com) are all free to premium members.
I have now paid and airplay to an Apple TV works ok but better if there was a native application.
Re: Tata Steel 2017
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 1:08 pm
by Angus French
The official site for the tournament is carrying
video commentary from chess.com with Yasser Seirawan and a Dutch player I recognise but can't put a name to.
Re: Tata Steel 2017
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 10:53 am
by Mick Norris
Eljanov only winner in round 1 of the Masters; Gawain draws quickly in round 1 of the Challengers
TWIC
chess.com
Chess Mind with a couple of
annotated games