Today in the Netherlands Wake Ansente, the Parties of the 10th round of the traditional Chess Supernir Tata Steel Masters, which takes part and Azerbaijan grandmaster Shahriyar Mammadyarov.
Our chess player played today black figures with American Sam Shenkland. The party ended with a draw on the 29th go.
Now I have 6 points from Shakhriyar. At the moment, it occupies 3rd place, inferior to Norwegian Magnus Karlsenu (7 points) and the Netherlands Anise Giri (6.5). At the same time, today’s party involving Giri has not yet been completed.
3 round remained until the end of the tournament. In Waik-An-See 14 chess players play around the circular system at 13 rounds. Time control is 100 minutes by 40 moves, then 50 minutes by 20 moves, after which 15 minutes for the remaining part of the game with a 30-second addition after each turn. Competition will be completed on January 30.
For the second year in a row, Tata Steel Chess, which is also called “Chess Wimbledon”, is carried out without viewers due to pandemic restrictions. There will be no traditional amateur competition. But the Challengers tournament with 14 chess players is lower.
The representative of Azerbaijan won in Wike-an-xe once. In 2007, Teymur Rajabov shared the 1st place with Bulgarian Veselin Topalova and Armenian Levon Aronian. The record holder in the number of victories is Magnus Karlsen. He won seven times here.