The chess boom is real, and Wijk aan Zee profited from it. Surely Firouzja would have wanted to find out as soon as possible the results of the games between his competition as listed above. The 2021 Tata Steel Masters was a 14-player single round-robin held from 16-31 January at De Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language. The only requirement for SB and other tiebreak schemes to be valid is that all the games for a round need to have been completed. And what's this nonsense about being in time trouble that I've also heard from you and others? For example: if you ask someone "what does this guy play against 1. e4" then: "he plays the dragon" or "the Najdorf" or "Sveshnikov" or "French Winawer", etc. While the playoff was underway, he spoiled his promising position, and afterward, he was very angry at the arbiters and shouted at the main organizer. 10 Duda 22 2743 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ ½ ½ 5½ To the online viewers, it looked like Giri lost on time in a winning position. So, as himself said (Tata Steel Masters (2021) (kibitz #417)) "There is a threshold for the level of stupidity and its resulting damage, that one can take. In my comment I didn't refer specifically to fide rating. "He played the better chess, but maybe I played the faster chess in the end. is a standard response. (and before you'll start asking me if I think or tend to think that, I'll clarify that I am talking here from my own experience, and from the impression I got when talking with other chess players). In reality, four more moves were made, and Giri turned out to be the last to blunder. A big part of van Foreest's success was his final-round win against GM Nils Grandelius, and that win was largely based on his highly successful opening preparation. As to fide-rating, here Sonas explains how rating-floors could affect rating inflation (that I mentioned in regard to rating floors), and why (overrated) players that join the pool temporally (and then leave it) donate rating points: . There is a good possibility that he was totally focused on his game, and just got up to relax a bit, instead of trying to calculate whether he qualified or not. Firouzja: Score = 7.5, SB = 42.25 The many online spectators witnessed a special moment in the history of Dutch chess. (Image: Jurriaan Hoefsmit/Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021) The 18-year-old Esipenko beat Carlsen in their first-ever classical chess meeting, thoroughly outplaying the Norwegian from start to finish. You don't want to join a choir that unanimously salute Firouzja and condemn the organizers, when they were formally in their right to move the game & players. Blitz is just a coin flip basically.". I don't know if that's arrogance or not since arrogance, like beauty, is mostly in the eye of the beholder, so I'll let the readers decide. 3 Esipenko 18 2677 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 8 3. As for your attacks on me using the "Context" word: In the 3 links that you gave there (one link was a duplicate), I didn't even say once that the other user missed the context of my posts ("context" was mentioned there for different reasons). The Tata Steel Chess Tournament runs January 16-31, 2021. For the first time in 25 years, a Dutchman emerged as the victor. Why should those rating points have "naturally left" the ratings pool? GM Fabiano Caruana, who could still catch the leaders, had little chance for more than a draw against GM Aryan Tari, but that cannot be said about GM Alireza Firouzja. And White's pieces are better placed for either an attack on Black's king or winning additional material. Copyright 2001-2021, Chessgames Services LLC, chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #34992). His position is subjectively better; he has 2 pawns for the exchange so material is approximately even. "It's crazy, it didn't really get through to me yet, I just finished the game. Because these are well known variations, with clear pawn structures. I: The K-factor. 11 Anton 25 2679 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 5 So Firouzja had to hope that Caruana did not win. I thought that perhaps sarcasm and mockery was a more effective way of trying to get my points across. I only added that comment about the context as an addition to the above (since it seemed like you missed the reason I said all that about the K-factor). The use of "sock puppet" accounts to circumvent disciplinary action taken by moderators, create a false impression of consensus or support, or stage conversations, is prohibited. The bully denied it of course but what was the teacher to do? 2. ), the results have been consistent. Which is a shame, since if a person does not wish to continue a discussion for whatever reaason they can always refrain from responding or simply say that they must just "agree to disagree". This year’s Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee has been won by 21-year-old Jorden van Foreest – the first time a Dutchman has won the title since Jan Timmans in 1985. 4 Caruana 28 2823 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 8 I was in pre-school, maybe 4 years old (early 1950s), and had been admitted to a class even though my birthday was later than the cut-off date for that particular class. And I couldn't go to the teacher and complain because it would just be my word against his. I don't know weather Firouzja was aware of some strange regulations they wrote and later removed from their site. Jorden Van Foreest played enterprising chess throughout the event, showing great opening preparation (his win over Nils Grandelius was particularly remarkable), combined with energetic middlegame play. 1 Van Foreest 21 2671 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 8½ Van Foreest won the toss and chose to play with the black pieces. I'm sure you do that too. to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users. Becoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! In any case, context is highly important in discussions, so in case I think someone missed the context, then there is a good chance that I will comment on that. 5,000. — Tata Steel Chess (@tatasteelchess) February 1, 2021 Firouzja has now found himself on the losing side of a second notable recent controversy. . 10 Player Round Robin. How to review?The Tata Steel Chess Tournament ran January 16-31, 2021. Skilling Open. I couldn't fight him since he was older and stronger so I wouldn't stand a chance. "Context" seems to be one of your favorite words, and I'm not the only poster you've taken this evasive action with. World Champion Magnus Carlsen was again heading the field, which included Top 10 stars Vachier-Lagrave and Caruana, as well as young stars Firouzja and Esipenko. Didn't you bother to read my post on Tata Steel Masters (2021) (kibitz #409) to see what the Rules and Regulations said at the time the tournament started? There was a lot of throwing pieces around. If he plays Slav structures, then as I wrote there, white doesn't have too many main-lines options: He can play: standard slav with either e3 or Ne5+g3, or to sac with 5. e4 (after 4.. dc), or he can fianchetto one or both bishops, or play the exchange slav (with Bf4 or block it with e3), he can go for London structures. It was a really tough game, and I think happiness will come later," said van Foreest after this game, not realizing how prophetic these words would be. World Champion Magnus Carlsen was again heading the field, which included Top 10 stars Vachier-Lagrave and Caruana, as well as young stars Firouzja and Esipenko. Alireza Firouzja took over the lead at the Tata Steel Masters after defeating Pentala Harikrishna to score his third straight win. So 4-5 different pawn structures. I don't know that, but I can assume things based on your output. So, as long as Firouzja did not lose, he would be ahead of Esipenko in terms of qualifying for the tiebreak match. No cyberstalking or malicious posting of negative or private information (doxing/doxxing) of members. Not in every interaction, only those in which I am trying to "win". The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.It was called the Hoogovens tournament from its creation in 1938 until the sponsor Koninklijke Hoogovens merged with British Steel to form the Corus Group in 1999, after which the tournament was called the Corus chess tournament.Corus Group became Tata Steel Europe in 2007. So, if you are in time trouble, why aren't you sitting at the table waiting to make your next move as soon as possible? Vol. visit the Kibitzer's Café. So a draw was the likely outcome even if Firouzja was "rattled" by the situation. So do you think, tend to think, or have an intuitive feeling that after one of the examples I mentioned, that after 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 or 3.e5 that Black is "giving the tone about the pawn structure'? 6 Carlsen 30 2862 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 7½ NOTE: Please keep all discussion on-topic. I also agree, and the only thing that I would change in this statement is the insertion of the word "far" between the words "has" and "bigger". 7 Harikrishna 34 2732 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 6½ The Tata Steel Chess India rapid and blitz event will see a three-fold increase in prize money in its second edition to be held at the iconic National Library in Kolkata from November 22. with the white's idea to exchange his bishop for Black's knight, folding black semi-central pawns. On the decisive moment, at the end of today's armageddon game, over 80,000 online viewers were watching the combined Chess.com broadcast streams (Twitch, YouTube, and international channels), and more than 700,000 watched over the course of the day. pic.twitter.com/Nt79LHNQMN. For a while, Giri's prospects did look rather grim. So the total is around 11-15 pawns structures with black. What does that even mean? So my here is that Firouzja was totally unaware of that, and that most (if not all) the rest of the players were unaware of it as well. No spamming, advertising, duplicate, or gibberish posts. But it seems to me that instead of responding to what I say in my comments you keep trying to avoid that by claiming that they are not made in the "context" of the complete post. Not too difficult to master vs e4 players. It has been mentioned many times, but van Foreest finally did what predecessors like Jeroen Piket and Loek van Wely couldn't: become the first Dutch winner since GM Jan Timman won it, 36 years ago, in 1985. 13 Vachier-Lagrave 30 2784 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * 1 5 You can shorten it even more in future posts by referring to me as "AKDP". 31 Jan 2021 Possible final round scenarios. You just add the score of each of the defeated opponents and half the score of the drawn opponents. So presumably both players have had the 15 minutes for the post-60 moves added to their clock. Frankly, I consider repeating the statement that I take words out of context as a mild form of an ad hominem attack; if you can't come up with reasons why you disagree with a position that a person has, you try to demean the person as a means to reduce the credibility of his argument. So now you resort to ad hominem attack? After all, I had the "evidence". I would think that during the 13th and final round Firouzja would have wanted to know how the games of his competition for first place had finished. Giri himself was strolling confidently through the playing hall after almost every move he made and was out of trouble when he could play the thematic ...d5 pawn break. Van Foreest continued playing the engine's preferred choices, including the wonderful 21.Nb5!. All rounds start at 14:00 CET (5 a.m. Pacific) except for the final round that starts an hour earlier. Tata Steel Chess 2021 Супертурнир в Вейк-ан-Зее 10 тур. You can try to figure it out using opening databases, but its problematic. You don't want to win this way but it happened like this, and I'm just really happy now. 29.Nd2 was pretty nice, giving up another pawn but eventually winning based on domination. So in order for Firouzja to qualify for the tiebreaker match he could have known that the following must happen: (1) Caruana must do no better than a draw. The Iranian teenager was doing rather well against GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek, and he had good chances to finish on the same number of points as Giri and van Foreest. When these players reached the time control, the arbiters asked them to move to one of the tables farther away so that they would be less bothered by the moves of Giri and Van Foreest. There was a bully in that class and he kept being nasty to me; pushing me, hitting me, and making derogatory comments. If you're going to throw around words like "usually' in order to make a case then you should have some data to back it up. At the beginning of the video it's after Firouzja has played 60.Rd2 and then it quickly advances to where Wojtaszek has played 60...Qb1 and is presumably writing down his move on his scoresheet. Sounds good to me. We have a formula for calculating rating change of each two players from the players pool, that play against each other. GM Jorden van Foreest became the first Dutch player in 36 years to win the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. . In a hectic final phase, the moves were made so fast that the digital chessboard stopped registering them after move 58. Age Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 No part of this site may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any way or by any means (including photocopying, recording or storing it in any medium by electronic means), without the written permission of FIDE International that's new for you (as far as I recall..). The Tata Steel Chess Festival, which ushers in up to Jan. 31 the chess calendar for the New Year, gets underway Jan. 15 at the Dutch coastal town of Wijk aan Zee. And, as I said above, this wasn't one of them. Giri missed a chance to take the lead: Giri was also better in game two, where he won a pawn. If a tie between three or more players the ones to play the Blitz playoff would be decided by 1) mutual result, 2) Sonneborn-Berger score, 3) N games with black, 4) drawing of lots. I have said the same thing several times, most recently in Tata Steel Masters (2021) (kibitz #416) where I said "Of course, both Carlsen and So [after mentioning some of their experiences with the arbiters] were mature adults and Firouzja is still only 17, so I would excuse his behavior, even though this is not the first time that he has thrown a tantrum when he disagreed [with the organizers]. And from what I read and seen in the video, they waited until the players had reached the time control to inform them that they had to move to another table as stipulated in the Rules and Regulations in place at the start of the tournament, although Firouzja's clock was running and it should have been stopped. (4) Van Foreest could do no better than a draw. ", . But s latest posts about how he wanted to correct my mistakes (yeah right..), was just too arrogant for me skip, and his discussions about a so-called "victory" (Pyrrhic or whatever) were also puzzling, since most of the time just asked me to clarify issues that were quite clear, or to bring more data when that wasn't really needed (and if that is the way to "win" arguments, then we can have toddlers beating experts in arguments..). I couldn't just ignore him, he would just continue to do it. Prize Money ($) Start Date. If you already have a username, During the tournament, little happened on Twitter between Carlsen and Giri but right after it was over, the world champion poked up the fire again. The reason I personally like SB is that it's based on how well a player scores in the tournament in question without regards to pre-tournament ratings which don't necessarily have relevance on how the players will play in the current tournament; see Vachier-Lagrave's relatively poor performance in this event. (3) Giri had to lose or draw and Firouzja had to win in order to qualify for the tie breaker match. But, FWIW, Stockfish 12 at d=48 evaluates the position as providing even chances for both sides, [0.00] after either 61.Qd3, 61.Be5, or 61.Qf4 (the move that Firouzja actually played). Why? I understand your intention. "We had this position on the board this morning. 9 Grandelius 27 2663 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ * 1 ½ ½ 1 1 6 Time control: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 50 more minutes for the next 20 moves, then 15 more minutes to finish the game, with 30 seconds added per move from move 1. Spanish GM David Anton was in control in this game but failed to convert his long-term advantage. "In these blitz games, it basically comes down to a lot of luck," said van Foreest. People do that all the time. He also broke 2700 for the first time as he won 30 rating points. As the players got low on time, it was van Foreest's turn to blunder, first a pawn and then a full piece. His Sonneborn-Berger (SB) tiebreak, however, was worse. Here's a video (presumably from the Dutch feed since one of the commentators is Sopiko Guramishvili who, in case you didn't know, is Giri's wife) of the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-h.... Look at the position. I don't know weather Firouzja already knew that he didn't qualify for the tie-breaks by the time the arbiter approached them. "I have to give a big shoutout to my second, GM Max Warmerdam," said van Foreest. You can find the games here . The 2020 Tata Steel Masters is a 14-player single round-robin taking place from 11-26 January. The 2021 Tata Steel Masters was a 14-player single round-robin held from 16-31 January at De Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. Last night the organisers felt compelled to make a public apology after Firouzja got visibly upset when the arbiters, preparing for a playoff, […] On Chess: 2021 Tata Steel Chess Tournament Crowns New Champion Denes Boros | St. Louis Chess Club The 2021 Tata Steel Chess Tournament ended with a surprising win. No, of course the Rules and Regulations didn't say that. Vol. I actually gave you enough information there, showing that black has much wider choice of pawn structures then white, with regard to the main lines. . But perhaps a better name for this series might be "AylerKupp / Metatron2 on Our Great Discussions.". End Date. Yes, that must have been disappointing to him, but it should not have come as a surprise to him if the arbiters had told him when they told him and Wojtaszek that they had to move to a different table. I just hope that he grows up before he's stopped being invited to the top tournaments because of his unpredictable emotional behavior. Last night the organisers felt compelled to make a public apology after Firouzja got visibly upset when the arbiters, preparing for a playoff, suggested moving … All moderator actions taken are ultimately at the sole discretion of the administration. So you can see that white needs to face much more different types of pawn structures than black. If you have trouble counting that, then lets do a quick review: Lets take an 1.e4 player who plays 3.d4 against the Sicilian and main lines against other openings: Sicilian - at least 8 (the 5 I gave there+ accelerated dragon + e6 four knights + Scheveningen), 1..e5 - at least 9 (Petrov, Philidor, Roy : open, closed, Schliemann, Breyer, marshal, Berlin, without 3.. a6, and there are more..), French + Caro Can + Pirc + Scandinavian + Alekhine - at least 10 (Even if we take just 2 main pawn structures for each one of them (most of them have more)). Once again, it was Giri who took the upper hand, this time in a must-win game for him. But I think its more about one's character than about his age. 2 Giri 26 2764 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 8½ Oh well, hopefully the tournament organizers, in this and other tournaments, have learned from this fiasco and they will give more thought to the tiebreak procedures for other tournaments. I don't know why you think that. Powered by Restream https://restream.io/. An incident involving 17-year-old Alireza Firouzja partly overshadowed the historic triumph of 21-year-old Jorden van Foreest in the Tata Steel Chess Masters, provoking angry reactions in comments on chess24 and social media. The much-anticipated 2021 edition of the Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee was an all-around success, providing chess enthusiasts with high-quality games and an exciting final day of action. Tour participants will compete for a total prize fund of $1.275 million, including $325,000 per classical tournament and $150,000 in prizes for rapid & blitz events. I still think the same today, but I also mentioned there that you have drawbacks as well, and you asked me what they were. We played around a bit, we got to this position with 16...Qb8, and he played 17.c4 and said it was slightly better for White according to the engines, but I didn't know the follow-up.

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