Grandmasters Fabiano Caruana, Michael Adams and Pavel Eljanov each won their matches for the day. Caruana closes the gap between him and the current leader GM Magnus Carlsen by 0.5 points and leaves GM Anish Giri a full point behind.
Caruana defeated Yi Wei in a 31-move game which started in the Ruy Lopez.
[Event "78th Tata Steel GpA"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "2016.01.27"]
[Round "10.2"]
[White "Caruana, Fabiano"]
[Black "Wei, Yi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C83"]
[WhiteElo "2787"]
[BlackElo "2706"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2016.01.16"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5 8. dxe5
Be6 9. c3 Be7 10. Bc2 Bg4 11. h3 Bh5 12. g4 Bg6 13. Nd4 Qd7 14. f4 Nxd4 15.
cxd4 f5 16. Be3 O-O 17. Nc3 c6 18. Bxe4 dxe4 19. d5 b4 20. dxc6 Qxd1 21. Nxd1
Rfd8 22. Rc1 Rd3 23. Bc5 Bd8 24. e6 Rc8 25. e7 Ba5 26. gxf5 Be8 27. Nf2 Rd5 28.
Nxe4 Bxc6 29. Bxb4 Bxb4 30. Rxc6 Re8 31. f6 Rd4 32. Re6 1-0
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Sergey Karjakin locked the center and tried to launch a kingside attack but Adams’ queenside pawns paved the way for the invading Black Queen.
[Event "78th Tata Steel GpA"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "2016.01.27"]
[Round "10.5"]
[White "Karjakin, Sergey"]
[Black "Adams, Michael"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "2769"]
[BlackElo "2744"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2016.01.16"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 d5 3. e3 e6 4. Nf3 c5 5. c3 Nc6 6. Nbd2 Bd6 7. Bg3 O-O 8. Bd3
b6 9. Ne5 Bb7 10. f4 Ne7 11. Qf3 Nf5 12. Bf2 Be7 13. g4 Nd6 14. g5 Nfe4 15.
O-O-O c4 16. Bc2 b5 17. Qh3 b4 18. Nxe4 dxe4 19. Be1 Bd5 20. Rg1 b3 21. axb3
cxb3 22. Bb1 f5 23. gxf6 Bxf6 24. Rg4 Nf5 25. Kd2 Qa5 26. Ke2 Bxe5 27. dxe5
Rad8 28. Kf2 Qa1 29. Bd2 Bc4 30. Qh5 Qxb2 31. Ke1 Rxd2 0-1
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Pavel Eljanov outmaneuvered Yifan Hou in the endgame.
[Event "78th Tata Steel GpA"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "2016.01.27"]
[Round "10.6"]
[White "Hou, Yifan"]
[Black "Eljanov, Pavel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C53"]
[WhiteElo "2673"]
[BlackElo "2760"]
[PlyCount "136"]
[EventDate "2016.01.16"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 O-O 6. O-O d6 7. Nbd2 a6 8. Bb3
Be6 9. Bc2 h6 10. h3 Re8 11. Re1 d5 12. exd5 Bxd5 13. b4 Ba7 14. a4 b5 15. Bb2
Qb8 16. Nf1 Qb6 17. Ne3 Rad8 18. a5 Qb7 19. Nxd5 Nxd5 20. Nh4 Re6 21. d4 Rf6
22. Qh5 Qc8 23. Be4 Nf4 24. Qf3 Ng6 25. Qg3 Nxh4 26. Qxh4 exd4 27. Bf3 d3 28.
Rad1 Qf5 29. c4 g5 30. Qe4 Bd4 31. Bxd4 Nxd4 32. Rxd3 Ne2+ 33. Rxe2 Rxd3 34.
Qe8+ Kg7 35. Be4 Rd1+ 36. Kh2 Qf4+ 37. g3 Qd6 38. cxb5 Rd2 39. Bg2 Rxf2 40.
Rxf2 Rxf2 41. Qe3 Rf6 42. bxa6 Qxa6 43. Qc5 Qd6 44. Qc3 Kg8 45. b5 Rf2 46. Qe1
Ra2 47. a6 Qd5 48. Qf1 Qd4 49. Qg1 Qxg1+ 50. Kxg1 Kf8 51. Bd5 Ra3 52. Kf2 Ke7
53. g4 f6 54. Ke2 Kd6 55. Be4 Kc5 56. Bd3 Kd4 57. Bf5 Rxh3 58. Bd7 Ra3 59. Bc6
Kc5 60. Bd7 Kb6 61. Kf2 c5 62. bxc6 Rxa6 63. Kf3 Ra4 64. Ke3 Kc7 65. Kf3 Kd6
66. Ke3 Ra5 67. Ke4 Re5+ 68. Kf3 Re7 0-1
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