The Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee is underway. This is always one of the most popular events on the chess calendar, as it brings together a large field (14 players) for a tournament that lasts more than two weeks. And that's just the top, "A" section; the B and C sections of the tournament also often attract plenty of interest by inviting intriguing guests to participate, such as this year's inclusion of veteran chess giant Jan Timman.
But most of the attention ultimately falls on the top section, which this year includes seven of the world's top 10 players, and 11 of the top 20. After two rounds, it's World #2 Levon Aronian who holds the lead with a 2/2 score, having already scored wins against Sergey Karjakin and Hikaru Nakamura. Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri and Fabiano Caruana are just behind the leader with 1.5 points in the early going. Karjakin has had the roughest time of it so far, losing in each of the first two rounds.
I'll have more coverage of the tournament throughout the next couple of weeks, but there are plenty of other ways to stay up-to-date on what's happening in the Netherlands. The tournament website includes live game coverage every day, allowing you to follow along with every step of the action as it happens!
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I’ve read all the articles from Dr. Soren Riis as well as the ICGA rebuttals. I can see both sides of the story but overall, I don’t feel that the ICGA should have revoked Rybka’s championship titles.
Fruit was open source so I see nothing wrong with Rajiich taking much of Fruit’s ideas and incorporating them into Rybka.