Tata Steel 2017

[Mick Norris]

Gawain Jones playing in the Challengers

[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

[JustinHorton]

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?)

[Ian Kingston]

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.

[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.

[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

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

[Mick Norris]

Preview chess.com

Gawain starts with 2 whites

[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

[Carl Hibbard]

Very disappointing commentary news.

[Matt Mackenzie]

Which is?

[Tim Harding]

Very disappointing commentary news.

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.

[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

[Carl Hibbard]

Very disappointing commentary news.

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.

[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.

[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