Tata Steel 2017

The echo of an amazing 2016 still reverberates, with the World Championship Match and the final fireworks in Doha, Qatar with the World Rapid and Blitz Championships.

But the chess circus never sleeps, and 2017 is going to open with the traditional super-tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. Play starts January the 14th to the 29th, at 7:30 am EST (13:30 CET, 12:30 UK). The 79th edition of the Tata Steel chess festival is one of those events that no chess aficionado wants to miss.

This year the line-up is extremely interesting, with five of the top guys ready to descend from the Grand Chess Tour Olympus and land on Earth, where 8 strong opponents are waiting to battle over the board.

Magnus Carlsen is called to defend the title and win the tournament for the third time in a row. It will be a pleasure for the fans to see Carlsen, So, Aronian, Karjakin, and Giri deal with interesting players such as Nepomniachtchi, Wojtaszek, Rapport, Adhiban; the young Wey Yi, who is thought to be a future world title challenger;  solid and strong GMs like Eljanov, Harikrishna and Andreikin; and last but not least the Dutch lion, Loek Van Wely.

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Player	Country	Rating
Magnus Carlsen	Norway	2840
Wesley So	USA	2801
Levon Aronian	Armenia	2785
Karjakin Sergey	Russia	2785
Anish Giri	Netherlands	2771
Pentala Harikrishna	India	2770
Ian Nepomniachtchi	Russia	2767
Pavel Eljanov	Ukraine	2765
Radoslaw Wojtaszek	Poland	2749
Dmitri Andreikin	Russia	2737
Richard Rapport	Hungary	2717
Yi Wei	China	2707
Loek Van Wely	Netherlands	2696
Bakaran Adhiban	India	2666