The Tata Steel Chess Tournament, formerly called the Corus chess tournament, takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. It was called the Hoogovens tournament until 1999 after which the Dutch sponsor Koninklijke Hoogovens merged with British Steel plc to form the Corus Group, which became Tata Steel Europe in 2007.
From 1938 to 1967, the tournament took place in Beverwijk. The series has been numbered sequentially from its Hoogovens beginnings and hence, the 2011 event was referred to as the 73rd Tata Steel Chess Tournament on the official website.
Very strong chess players compete in the prestigious tournament, but regular club players are welcome to play as well. The top "A" section pits 14 of the world's best against each other in a round-robin tournament. Since 1938, there has been a long list of famous winners, including: Max Euwe, Bent Larsen, Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres, Efim Geller, Lajos Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, Jan Timman, Anatoly Karpov, Vladimir Kramnik, Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin, Magnus Carlsen, Teimour Radjabov and Hikaru Nakamura. In fact, of the "Classical" world chess champions since World War II, only the names of Vasily Smyslov and Bobby Fischer are missing. In 2001, nine of the top ten players in the world participated.
Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen are the only players to have won five titles of the Hoogovens/Corus/Tata Steel chess tournament in its long history, though three of Anand's wins and one of Carlsen's wins were shared. Anand also holds the record of most consecutive games played at this tournament without a loss (70 - from 1998 to 2004). Max Euwe, Lajos Portisch, Viktor Korchnoi, and Levon Aronian have won four times each.
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Tournament history
Hoogovens Beverwijk
The early tournaments were very small, starting with groups of four in 1938, and entry restricted to Dutch players. The first five tournaments continued this way, with the contest held annually early in January. In 1943 and 1944 the tournament field was doubled in size to eight players. No tournament was held in 1945 due to World War II. The first international tournament was held in 1946. The main tournament field was expanded to ten, with invitations to Alberic O'Kelly de Galway (Belgium) and Gösta Stoltz (Sweden) along with a Dutch contingent of eight.
The tournament field remained at ten until 1953 when it was increased to twelve, and an international women's tournament was also held. In 1954 the tournament field was returned to ten players, but the strength of the competitions increased. The field was greatly enlarged to 18 in 1963, and although it reduced to 16 in 1964, the event had become the strongest international chess tournament in the world (Golombek 1977, p. 143).
As the tournament grew in stature, the ancillary women's tournament became a regular feature, as did a 'Masters' event and 'Masters Reserves' events. There also began a tradition to operate a year on year invitation policy that resembled the system used in football 'league tables'; the winner of a lesser category event would receive an invitation to the next higher event the following year.
The 1946 tournament was one of the first European international chess tournaments after World War II. Food shortages were still a problem in Europe, so the post-tournament banquet featured pea soup, inexpensive fare of the common people. In subsequent years pea soup has been served as the first course of the concluding banquet, a tradition continued when the tournament was moved from Beverwijk to Wijk aan Zee (Damsky & Sugden 2005, p. 164).
Winners of the top group:
- 1938 - Philip Bakker
- 1939 - Nicolaas Cortlever
- 1940 - Max Euwe
- 1941 - Arthur Wijnans
- 1942 - Max Euwe
- 1943 - Arnold van den Hoek
- 1944 - Theo van Scheltinga
- 1945 - no tournament
- 1946 - Alberic O'Kelly de Galway
- 1947 - Theo van Scheltinga
- 1948 - Lodewijk Prins
- 1949 - Savielly Tartakower
- 1950 - Jan Hein Donner
- 1951 - Herman Pilnik
- 1952 - Max Euwe
- 1953 - Nicolas Rossolimo
- 1954 - Hans Bouwmeester and Vasja Pirc
- 1955 - Borislav Mili?
- 1956 - Gideon Ståhlberg
- 1957 - Aleksandar Matanovi?
- 1958 - Max Euwe and Jan Hein Donner
- 1959 - Friðrik Ólafsson
- 1960 - Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian
- 1961 - Bent Larsen and Borislav Ivkov
- 1962 - Petar Trifunovi?
- 1963 - Jan Hein Donner
- 1964 - Paul Keres and Iivo Nei
- 1965 - Lajos Portisch and Efim Geller
- 1966 - Lev Polugaevsky
- 1967 - Boris Spassky
Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee
The tournament was moved to the Dutch seaside town Wijk aan Zee in 1968. In this period, the tournament was popularly called both "Hoogovens" and "Wijk aan Zee". Winners of the Grandmaster A group since 1968 have been:
- 1968 - Viktor Korchnoi
- 1969 - Mikhail Botvinnik and Efim Geller
- 1970 - Mark Taimanov
- 1971 - Viktor Korchnoi
- 1972 - Lajos Portisch
- 1973 - Mikhail Tal
- 1974 - Walter Browne
- 1975 - Lajos Portisch
- 1976 - Ljubomir Ljubojevi? and Friðrik Ólafsson
- 1977 - Genna Sosonko and Efim Geller
- 1978 - Lajos Portisch
- 1979 - Lev Polugaevsky
- 1980 - Walter Browne and Yasser Seirawan
- 1981 - Genna Sosonko and Jan Timman
- 1982 - John Nunn and Yuri Balashov
- 1983 - Ulf Andersson
- 1984 - Alexander Beliavsky and Viktor Korchnoi
- 1985 - Jan Timman
- 1986 - Nigel Short
- 1987 - Nigel Short and Viktor Korchnoi
- 1988 - Anatoly Karpov
- 1989 - Viswanathan Anand, Predrag Nikoli?, Zoltán Ribli and Gyula Sax
- 1990 - John Nunn
- 1991 - John Nunn
- 1992 - Boris Gelfand and Valery Salov
- 1993 - Anatoly Karpov
- 1994 - Predrag Nikoli?
- 1995 - Alexey Dreev
- 1996 - Vassily Ivanchuk
- 1997 - Valery Salov
- 1998 - Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand
- 1999 - Garry Kasparov
Corus tournament
From 2000, the popular name for the tournament was more or less equally shared between "Wijk aan Zee" and "Corus".
- 2000 - Garry Kasparov
- 2001 - Garry Kasparov
- 2002 - Evgeny Bareev
- 2003 - Viswanathan Anand
- 2004 - Viswanathan Anand
- 2005 - Péter Lékó
- 2006 - Veselin Topalov and Viswanathan Anand
- 2007 - Levon Aronian, Teimour Radjabov and Veselin Topalov
- 2008 - Levon Aronian and Magnus Carlsen
- 2009 - Sergey Karjakin
- 2010 - Magnus Carlsen
Tata Steel tournament
From 2011, the popular name for the tournament was changed from 'Corus' to 'Tata Steel'.
- 2011 - Hikaru Nakamura
- 2012 - Levon Aronian
- 2013 - Magnus Carlsen
- 2014 - Levon Aronian
- 2015 - Magnus Carlsen
- 2016 - Magnus Carlsen
- 2017 - Wesley So
- 2018 -
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Event crosstables
1999
2007
In 2007, the finals positions were:[1]
2008
The 2008 Corus Chess Tournament took place in the De Moriaan Community Centre in Wijk aan Zee. The format of each of the three Grandmaster groups remained a 14 player single round robin. The participants in group A included eight of the world's top ten players (country, October 2007 rating and rank in brackets): Viswanathan Anand (India, 2801, 1), Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine, 2787, 2), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2785, 3), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria, 2769, 4), Peter Leko (Hungary, 2755, 5=), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan, 2752, 7), Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan, 2742, 8) and Levon Aronian (Armenia, 2741, 9). The remaining players were Boris Gelfand (Israel, 2736, 11), Michael Adams (England, 2729, 13), Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2714, 16=), Judit Polgár (Hungary, 2708, 20), Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine, 2691, 26) and Loek van Wely (Netherlands, 2679, 31). The average rating of 2742 made it a Category 20 tournament. The only top ten players not participating were Alexander Morozevich (Russia, 2755, 5=) and Alexei Shirov (Spain, 2739, 10).
The tournament was won by Levon Aronian and Magnus Carlsen (both scoring 8 out of 13).
Grandmaster group B was won by Sergei Movsesian of Slovakia with 9½ points, and group C by Italy's Fabiano Caruana with 10, two points ahead of his nearest rival. The Honorary group, a new category consisting of four former A group champions playing a double round robin, was won by Ljubomir Ljubojevi? with 4 points out of 6, ahead of Jan Timman, Viktor Korchnoi and Lajos Portisch.
2009
2010
2011
2012
The first tiebreak was Neustadtl score; the second was number of wins.
2013
The first tiebreak was Neustadtl score.
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
See also
- List of strong chess tournaments
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
- Official website
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