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The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2024 was the 86th edition of the annual chess tournament held in Wijk aan Zee from 13–28 January 2024. [1] The competition followed a similar format to the previous year's edition, taking place at the Dorpshuis De Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, while round 9 of the Masters section was played at the AFAS Circustheater in The Hague, Netherlands as part of ...
Playing hall of the 80th Tata Steel Tournament, 2018. The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. [1] 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.
Jan 21 – Leonid Ivanovic becomes the youngest player in history to beat a grandmaster in classical chess at the age of 8 years, 11 months, and 7 days. [6] Jan 28 – Wei Yi wins the 2024 Tata Steel Masters after beating Gukesh Dommaraju in the tiebreak final. Leon Luke Mendonca wins the Challengers' section, qualifying to next year's Masters ...
In January, Wei Yi won the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2024 after defeating Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Gukesh D in the tiebreaks. [38] With this result, he achieved his personal best rating of 2755, ranked 9th in the world. In May, Wei Yi came second place overall in the 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland tournament with a score of 25½. He came ...
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025 was the 87th edition of the annual chess tournament held in Wijk aan Zee.It was held from 17 January to 2 February 2025. The field of 14 players in the Masters section included the defending champion Wei Yi, as well as 2024 Challengers winner Leon Luke Mendonca.
The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour is a series of Chess960 tournaments in 2025 organized by Freestyle Chess Operations. It will consist of five "Grand Slam" tournaments following a format similar to the Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge, held in 2024. Players will score points based on placement in each event.
In January 2024, Gukesh finished in a four-way tie for the first place in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2024 with a score of 8½ in 13 rounds. He defeated Anish Giri in the semifinals before losing to Wei Yi in the finals of the tiebreaker. [35] In April 2024, Gukesh was part of the eight-player Candidates Tournament held in Toronto.
Ju earned the biggest win of her career in the fifth round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2024, defeating then world number 6 Alireza Firouzja. [16] She also drew World Champion Ding Liren in the final round, and eventually finished the tournament in 10th with 4½/13 (+1-5=7), gaining 9.7 rating points.