Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2023

Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2023
 
Masters Champion
Challengers Champion
 
  Netherlands Anish Giri Germany Alexander Donchenko
 
8½/13Scores10/13
  Born 28 June 1994
28 years old		 Born 22 March 1998
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The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2023 was the 85th edition of the annual chess tournament held in Wijk aan Zee. It was held from 13 January to 29 January 2023.[1] The field of 14 players in the Masters section included the numbers one and two of the FIDE world rankings at the time, Magnus Carlsen and Ding Liren, as well as five teenage grandmasters. Iran’s Parham Maghsoodloo was a late substitute for Poland’s Jan-Krzysztof Duda.[2] For the first time since 2015, Carlsen lost two classical games in a row: first in round 4 against Dutch grandmaster and five-times runner-up Anish Giri, and then in round 5 against the Uzbek teenager Nodirbek Abdusattorov.[3] Going into the last round Abdusattorov had a half point lead over Giri, but he lost his game against Dutch 2021 winner Jorden van Foreest, while Giri defeated Richárd Rapport, making Giri the tournament's winner. Germany's Alexander Donchenko won the Challengers section, securing an invitation to the 2024 Tata Steel Masters section.[4] Both the Masters and Challengers sections were eligible for the 2023 FIDE Circuit.

  1. ^ "Masters standings". Tata Steel Chess.
  2. ^ Barden, Leonard (13 January 2023). "Chess: Carlsen takes on young guns at Wijk as world champion eyes record". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  3. ^ Barden, Leonard (20 January 2023). "Chess: Carlsen loses two classical games in a row for the first time since 2015". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Anish Giri wins Tata Steel Masters 2023". FIDE. 30 January 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2023.