Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025
| Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025 | |
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 Masters, Tata Steel Chess 2025 | |
| Location | Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands |
| Dates | 18 January – 2 February 2025 |
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025 is the 87th edition of the annual chess tournament held in Wijk aan Zee. It is being held from 17 January to 2 February 2025. The field of 14 players in the Masters section includes the defending champion Wei Yi, as well as 2024 Challengers winner Leon Luke Mendonca. The Challengers section includes 11-year-old Argentine prodigy Faustino Oro.[1]
Organization
[edit]The tournament is a fourteen-player, single round-robin tournament, meaning there are 13 rounds with each player facing the others once.[2]
The field of 14 players in the Masters section includes the defending champion Wei Yi and Gukesh Dommaraju, who plays his first international event since becoming the World Chess Champion. Five of the top ten players play.[3][4] Chess.com labelled the event as the year's "first super-tournament".[2] Tournament director Jeroen van den Berg said that he "selected as many players as possible with a strong mentality and willing to fight for the win".[4]
Regulations
[edit]The time control is 100 minutes for the first 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 from move 1.[2] Players get 1 point for a win, ½ point for a draw and 0 points for a loss.
Summary
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Round 1
[edit]In his first game as World Champion, Gukesh sacrificed a bishop to complicate the position after being out-prepared in the opening. Giri found several accurate moves and acquired a winning advantage, but missed the only winning move on move 35 in mutual time trouble and lost the game. Harikrishna traded his queen for two rooks and made gradual progress to eventually beat Erigaisi in 63 moves. Vincent Keymer escaped a lost position against Mendonca when his opponent blundered into a mating attack. Abdusattorov left his queen en prise for four moves against Praggnanandhaa and achieved a significant edge, but couldn't convert the advantage. In the Challengers section, 14-year-old Lu defeated World Junior Champion Nogerbek, while Yakubboev, Van Nguyen, Gurel and Vaishali all scored wins.[5][6][7]
Round 2
[edit]Abdusattorov played a novelty on move 6 in an Advance French against Mendonca, who castled queenside into white's attack and lost in 31 moves. Harikrishna played ambitiously against Praggnanandhaa, but was forced to defend a pawn-down endgame. Both players misevaluated a rook exchange that would have led to a draw, and Praggnanandhaa went on to win after Harikrishna avoided the trade multiple times. van Foreest chose a rare setup against Caruana's London System and got a small advantage, but later misplayed and lost the game. Gukesh defended precisely in order to hold a draw against Fedoseev. Arjun had chances for a win against Giri, but had to eventually settle for a draw.[8][9]
Round 3
[edit]In the Challengers, white won on all seven boards in round 3. The player with the white pieces was higher rated on every board, except for in Lu–Svane.[10]
Round 4
[edit]Praggnanandhaa took the sole lead after scoring a hat-trick of wins against his countrymen Harikrishna, Erigaisi and Mendonca. Erigaisi was in a winning position against Fedoseev, but blundered a piece in a tactical sequence and lost the game. Harikrishna sacrificed both of his knights against Warmerdam and scored his second win, moving to one point behind the leader, along with Gukesh, Keymer, Fedoseev and Caruana. In the Challengers, Lu tied for the lead with l'Ami and Van Nguyen.[11][12][13][14]
Round 5
[edit]Abdusattorov caught up to Praggnanandhaa in round 5 after winning a brilliant game against van Foreest despite getting an inferior position out of the opening.[15] Gukesh won a pawn against Keymer and went on to convert his advantage and score his second win. Fedoseev accurately converted a winning endgame after exploiting a single mistake by Caruana.[16]
Standings
[edit]| Player | Rating | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Total | TB | SB | H2H | TPR | |
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| T1-2 |  Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan) |
2768 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| T1-2 |  R Praggnanandhaa (India) |
2741 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| T3-4 | Gukesh Dommaraju (India) |
2777 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 3½ | |||||||||||||
| T3-4 |  Vladimir Fedoseev (Slovenia) |
2717 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 3½ | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Pentala Harikrishna (India) |
2695 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | 3 | |||||||||||||
| T6-9 |  Fabiano Caruana (United States) |
2803 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 2½ | |||||||||||||
| T6-9 |  Wei Yi (China) |
2751 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 2½ | |||||||||||||
| T6-9 |  Vincent Keymer (Germany) |
2733 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 2½ | |||||||||||||
| T6-9 |  Alexey Sarana (Serbia) |
2677 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 2½ | |||||||||||||
| 10 |  Anish Giri (Netherlands) |
2731 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 2 | |||||||||||||
| T11-12 | Jorden van Foreest (Netherlands) |
2680 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1½ | |||||||||||||
| T11-12 | Max Warmerdam (Netherlands) |
2646 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1½ | |||||||||||||
| T13-14 | Arjun Erigaisi (India) |
2801 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | |||||||||||||
| T13-14 | Leon Luke Mendonca (India) |
2639 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 |
Challengers
[edit]87th Tata Steel Challengers, 17 January–2 February 2025, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, Category XII (2547)[18] Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Total SB Black TPR 1 
GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen (Czech Republic)2668 2 
GM Frederik Svane (Germany)2664 3 
GM Nodirbek Yakubboev (Uzbekistan)2659 4 
GM Ediz Gürel (Turkey)2624 5 
GM Aydin Suleymanli (Azerbaijan)2623 6 
GM Erwin l'Ami (Netherlands)2614 7 GM Benjamin Bok (Netherlands)2583 8 
GM Kazybek Nogerbek (Kazakhstan)2514 9 
IM Divya Deshmukh (India)2490 10 GM Vaishali Rameshbabu (India)2476 11 IM Arthur Pijpers (Netherlands)2474 12 
IM Faustino Oro (Argentina)2447 13 
IM Lu Miaoyi (China)2429 14 
IM Irina Bulmaga (Romania)2386
Results by round
[edit]Masters
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Points by round
[edit]This table shows the total number of wins minus the total number of losses each player has after each round. '=' indicates the player has won and lost the same number of games after that round. Green backgrounds indicate the player(s) with the highest score after each round.
| Rank | Player | Rounds | ||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||
| T1-2 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan)
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= | +1 | +2 | +2 | +3 | ||||||||
| T1-2 | R Praggnanandhaa (India)
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= | +1 | +2 | +3 | +3 | ||||||||
| T3–4 | Gukesh Dommaraju (India)
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+1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | +2 | ||||||||
| T3–4 | Vladimir Fedoseev (Slovenia)
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= | = | = | +1 | +2 | ||||||||
| 5 | Pentala Harikrishna (India)
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+1 | = | = | +1 | +1 | ||||||||
| T6–9 | Fabiano Caruana (United States)
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= | +1 | +1 | +1 | = | ||||||||
| T6–9 | Wei Yi (China)
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= | = | = | = | = | ||||||||
| T6–9 | Vincent Keymer (Germany)
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+1 | +1 | +1 | +1 | = | ||||||||
| T6–9 | Alexey Sarana (Serbia)
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= | = | = | = | = | ||||||||
| 10 | Anish Giri (Netherlands)
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–1 | –1 | –1 | –1 | –1 | ||||||||
| T11–12 | Jorden van Foreest (Netherlands)
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= | –1 | –1 | –1 | –2 | ||||||||
| T11–12 | Max Warmerdam (Netherlands)
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= | = | –1 | –2 | –2 | ||||||||
| T13–14 | Arjun Erigaisi (India)
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–1 | –1 | –2 | –3 | –3 | ||||||||
| T13–14 | Leon Luke Mendonca (India)
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–1 | –2 | –2 | –3 | –3 | ||||||||
Challengers
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Points by round
[edit]| Rank | Player | Rounds | ||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||
| T1–3 |  GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen (Czech Republic)
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+1 | +1 | +2 | +2 | |||||||||
| T1–3 | GM Erwin l'Ami (Netherlands)
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= | +1 | +2 | +2 | |||||||||
| T1–3 | IM Lu Miaoyi (China)
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+1 | +1 | +2 | +2 | |||||||||
| T4–6 |  GM Aydin Suleymanli (Azerbaijan)
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= | = | +1 | +1 | |||||||||
| T4–6 | GM Benjamin Bok (Netherlands)
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= | +1 | = | +1 | |||||||||
| T4–6 | GM Vaishali Rameshbabu (India)
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+1 | +1 | = | +1 | |||||||||
| T7–9 | GM Frederik Svane (Germany)
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= | +1 | = | = | |||||||||
| T7–9 |  GM Ediz Gürel (Turkey)
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+1 | = | +1 | = | |||||||||
| T7–9 |  GM Kazybek Nogerbek (Kazakhstan)
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–1 | –1 | = | = | |||||||||
| T10–11 | GM Nodirbek Yakubboev (Uzbekistan)
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+1 | +1 | = | –1 | |||||||||
| T10–11 | IM Divya Deshmukh (India)
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–1 | –1 | –2 | –1 | |||||||||
| T12–13 | IM Arthur Pijpers (Netherlands)
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–1 | –1 | –2 | –2 | |||||||||
| T12–13 |  IM Faustino Oro (Argentina)
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–1 | –2 | –1 | –2 | |||||||||
| 14 |  IM Irina Bulmaga (Romania)
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–1 | –2 | –3 | –3 | |||||||||
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