The Tournament is HEATING UP! – Ding Liren vs Anish Giri – Tata Steel Masters 2023

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

[Event “Tata Steel Chess 2023 Masters”]
[Site “Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands”]
[Date “2023.01.24”]
[Round “9.2”]
[White “Ding, Liren”]
[Black “Giri, Anish”]
[Result “*”]
[WhiteElo “2811”]
[BlackElo “2764”]
[Variant “Standard”]
[TimeControl “-“]
[ECO “A14”]
[Opening “English Opening: Agincourt Defense, Neo-Catalan Declined”]
[Termination “Unterminated”]
[Annotator “lichess.org”]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 e6 4. O-O Be7 5. c4 { A14 English Opening: Agincourt Defense, Neo-Catalan Declined } O-O 6. b3 d4 7. e3 c5 8. Ne5 Qc7 9. f4 Nbd7 10. Nd3 e5 11. Na3 a6 12. Bb2 Bd6 13. g4 exf4 14. g5 Ne8? { (-0.93 → 0.59) Mistake. fxe3 was best. } (14… fxe3) 15. Nxf4 dxe3 16. dxe3 Be5 17. Qc2 Nd6 18. Rad1 Re8 19. Nb1 a5?! { (0.66 → 1.60) Inaccuracy. Bxb2 was best. } (19… Bxb2 20. Qxb2) 20. a4?! { (1.60 → 0.78) Inaccuracy. Nc3 was best. } (20. Nc3 Nb6 21. Nfd5 Nxd5 22. Nxd5 Qd8 23. Bxe5 Rxe5 24. h4 Bg4 25. Rd2 Rc8 26. e4 h5) 20… Bxb2 21. Qxb2 Ne5 22. Nc3 Bg4 23. Rd5 Nf5 24. Rd2?? { (0.82 → -0.93) Blunder. Nb5 was best. } (24. Nb5) 24… Nxe3?! { (-0.93 → -0.11) Inaccuracy. Nh4 was best. } (24… Nh4) 25. Ncd5 Nxd5 26. Nxd5 Qb8 27. h3 Be6 28. Nf4? { (-0.23 → -1.54) Mistake. Qc3 was best. } (28. Qc3 Nc6 29. Nb6 Ra6 30. Nd7 Bxd7 31. Rxd7 Nd4 32. Kh1 Rg6 33. Bd5 Kh8 34. Bxf7 Rf8) 28… Bxc4 29. Rff2 Ba6 30. Nh5 Re7?! { (-1.84 → -1.22) Inaccuracy. Qc7 was best. } (30… Qc7 31. Rd5 c4 32. bxc4 Bxc4 33. Rc2 Rac8 34. Rd4 Qc5 35. Kh2 Qf8 36. Bxb7 Rb8 37. Rdxc4) 31. Rd5 Qc7 32. Rf5?! { (-1.79 → -3.00) Inaccuracy. Qc3 was best. } (32. Qc3 b6 33. Nf6+ Kh8 34. Rxe5 Qxe5 35. Qxe5 Rxe5 36. Bxa8 gxf6 37. Rxf6 Bc8 38. Rxb6 Bxh3) 32… Rae8 33. Qc3 b6 34. Nf6+? { (-2.94 → -5.27) Mistake. Qg3 was best. } (34. Qg3 Kh8 35. Kh2 Bc8 36. Rf1 Bb7 37. Nf6 Bxd5 38. Nxe8 Qc6 39. Bxd5 Qxd5 40. Nf6 Qd6) 34… gxf6 35. gxf6 Nf3+ 36. Rxf3 Re1+ 37. Bf1 Kh8 *

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