Today in the Netherlands Wake Ansente, the Parties of the 6th round of the traditional Chess Supernir Tata Steel Masters, which takes part and Azerbaijani grandmaster Shahriyar Mammadyarov.
Today, Shakhriyar played white figures with Swede Niels Grondius. The party ended in a draw. In the asset of Shakhriyar now 4 points. After the 5th round, he was in the 1st place. What place our chess player will take after today’s tour, will be known at the end of the rest of the fights.
In Wake-An-See 14 chess players playing a 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.