This year’s Tata Steel Chess Tournament at Wijk aan Zee, North Holland has just concluded the first round. In the Masters group, Grandmasters Wesley So, Ding Liren and Fabiano Caruana won against their opponents for the day. Meanwhile, half of the players in the Challengers group posted their 1st full point as well. This includes Alexey Dreev, Erwin l’Ami, Adhiban Baskaran, Eltaj Safarli, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Jorden van Foreest, and Wenjun Ju.
Featured below are two Queen’s Gambit Declined games from today’s matches.
[Event "78th Tata Steel GpA"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "2016.01.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Caruana, F."]
[Black "Eljanov, P."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "2787"]
[BlackElo "2760"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2016.01.15"]
1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 e6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. e4 Bb4 6. Bxc4 Nxe4 7. O-O Nf6 8.
Bg5 O-O 9. Qe2 h6 10. Bh4 Be7 11. Rad1 Nbd7 12. Ne5 Nb6 13. Bd3 Nfd5 14. Bg3
Bd7 15. Ne4 Ba4 16. Rc1 Nd7 17. b3 Nxe5 18. dxe5 Bc6 19. Rfd1 a5 20. a4 Qe8 21.
h4 Rd8 22. h5 Nb4 23. Bb1 Kh8 24. Bf4 Rg8 25. Bd2 Rd5 26. Bxb4 axb4 27. Rxd5
exd5 28. Ng3 Bg5 29. Re1 g6 30. Qg4 Qe7 31. Qd4 b6 32. e6+ Bf6 33. Qf4 g5 34.
Qf5 Rg7 35. Qc2 Qc5 36. Qxc5 bxc5 37. Nf5 Rg8 38. exf7 1-0
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[Event "78th Tata Steel GpB"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "2016.01.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Nisipeanu, LD."]
[Black "Batsiashvili, N."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D31"]
[WhiteElo "2679"]
[BlackElo "2485"]
[PlyCount "97"]
[EventDate "2016.01.15"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Be7 4. Bf4 Nf6 5. e3 O-O 6. a3 b6 7. g4 dxc4 8. Qf3
Nd5 9. Bxc4 Bb7 10. Nxd5 exd5 11. Ne2 Nc6 12. Ba2 Bd6 13. Rc1 Bxf4 14. Qxf4 Rc8
15. Bb1 Ne7 16. h4 c5 17. h5 Qc7 18. Qxc7 Rxc7 19. h6 g6 20. b4 c4 21. Kd2 Nc8
22. Nc3 Nd6 23. f3 Re7 24. Rce1 Rfe8 25. g5 Re6 26. Rh3 f6 27. gxf6 Kf7 28. f4
Kxf6 29. Rg1 Nf7 30. f5 gxf5 31. Bxf5 Rd6 32. Bxh7 Ke7 33. Rg7 Rh8 34. Bg8 Rf6
35. h7 Kf8 36. Rg2 Rf5 37. Rhg3 Ke7 38. Rg7 Bc6 39. Ke1 Be8 40. Rf2 Rxf2 41.
Kxf2 Kf6 42. Rg4 Ng5 43. Nxd5+ Kf5 44. Rh4 b5 45. Nc3 Kg6 46. e4 a6 47. Ke3 Bf7
48. Nd5 Bxd5 49. exd5 1-0
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