NEW Opening Theory!!! – Wesley So vs Vincent Keymer – Tata Steel Masters 2023 – Ruy Lopez, Closed

The Tata Steel Masters 2023 is a 14-player Round-robin tournament, held from the 14th to the 29th of January in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands.

Time control is 100 minutes for 40 moves followed by 50 minutes for 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment per move beginning from move one.

PLAYERS IN THE TOURNAMENT:

1 Magnus Carlsen 1990 2859 1
2 Ding Liren 1992 2811 2
3 Fabiano Caruana 1992 2766 6
4 Anish Giri 1994 2764 7
5 Wesley So 1993 2760 8
6 Richard Rapport 1996 2740 15
7 Levon Aronian 1982 2735 17
8 Gukesh D. 2006 2725 24
9 Arjun Erigaisi 2003 2722 26
10 Parham Maghsoodloo 2000 2719 29
11 Nodirbek Abdusattorov 2004 2713 30
12 Vincent Keymer 2004 2696 43
13 Praggnanandhaa R. 2005 2684 52
14 Jorden van Foreest 1999 2681 59

Tata Steel Challengers

Participants

1 Amin Tabatabaei 2686 2001
2 Javokhir Sindarov 2654 2005
3 Alexander Donchenko 2627 1998
4 Jergus Pechac 2637 2001
5 Erwin l’Ami 2627 1985
6 Max Warmerdam 2616 2000
7 Mustafa Yilmaz 2609 1992
8 Luis Paulo Supi 2608 1996
9 Adhiban Baskaran 2610 1992
10 Velimir Ivic 2585 2002
11 Abhimanyu Mishra 2559 2009
12 Thomas Beerdsen 2515 1998
13 Rameshbabu Vaishali 2425 2001
14 Eline Roebers 2361 2006

PGN OF THE GAME:

[Event “Tata Steel Chess Masters 2023”]
[Site “Chess.com”]
[Date “2023.01.20”]
[Round “06”]
[White “So, Wesley”]
[Black “Keymer, Vincent”]
[Result “*”]
[WhiteElo “2760”]
[BlackElo “2696”]
[Variant “Standard”]
[TimeControl “6000+30”]
[ECO “C88”]
[Opening “Ruy Lopez: Closed, Anti-Marshall”]
[Termination “Unterminated”]
[Annotator “lichess.org”]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. a4 { C88 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Anti-Marshall } b4 9. a5 Rb8 10. d4 Nxd4 11. Nxd4 exd4 12. e5 Ne8 13. Qxd4 Rb5 14. Bc4 c5 15. Qd3 Rxa5 16. Rxa5 Qxa5 17. Nd2 Qc7 18. Nf3 h6 19. Bf4 Qc6 20. Bd5 Qb5 21. Qf5 Bb7 22. Bxb7 Qxb7 23. Rd1 Nc7 24. Rxd7 Rd8 25. h4 g6 26. Qd3 Qc8 27. Rxd8+ Qxd8 28. Qxd8+ Bxd8 29. Bxh6 a5 30. b3 Nb5 31. Bc1 Na3 32. c4 a4 33. g3 Nb1 34. bxa4 b3 35. Kf1 Ba5 36. Bb2 Nc3 37. Nd2 Nxa4 38. Nxb3 Bb4 39. Bc1 Nb6 40. Nd2 Bxd2 41. Bxd2 Nxc4 42. Bc3 Kf8 43. Ke2 Ke7 44. Kd3 Nb6 45. Ke4 Ke6 46. g4 Na4 47. Ba1 c4 48. Bd4 c3 49. Kd3 Kd5 50. h5 c2 51. Kxc2 *

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