Month: January 2020

After losing his Round 4 game against Wesley So, Alireza Firouzja beats Anish Giri in Round 5 of Tata Steel Masters 2020, to rejoin So in the lead by the end of the round.

Tata Steel Masters 2020 Round 5 Results

White	Black	Results
Anand, Viswanathan	Xiong, Jeffery	1-0
Carlsen, Magnus	Dubov, Daniil	½-½
Caruana, Fabiano	Van Foreest, Jorden	½-½
Duda, Jan-Krzysztof	Artemiev, Vladislav	½-½
Firouzja, Alireza	Giri, Anish	1-0
Kovalev, Vladislav	So, Wesley	½-½
Vitiugov, Nikita	Yu, Yangyi	½-½

Tata Steel Masters 2020 Ranking after Round 5

#	Name	Pts	SB
1	So, Wesley	3.5	9.00
	Firouzja, Alireza	3.5	7.25
3	Caruana, Fabiano	3.0	7.00
	Van Foreest, Jorden	3.0	6.75
	Artemiev, Vladislav	3.0	5.50
6	Xiong, Jeffery	2.5	7.00
	Duda, Jan-Krzysztof	2.5	6.00
	Anand, Viswanathan	2.5	5.75
	Carlsen, Magnus	2.5	5.75
	Dubov, Daniil	2.5	4.75
11	Giri, Anish	2.0	5.00
	Vitiugov, Nikita	2.0	4.75
13	Yu, Yangyi	1.5	3.50
14	Kovalev, Vladislav	1.0	3.00

Wesley So took the lead in the tournament by beating Alireza Firouzja in a quiet Queen’s Gambit Accepted where he steadily outplayed the youngster as white.

Tata Steel Masters 2020 Round 4 Results

White	Black	Results
Artemiev, Vladislav	Kovalev, Vladislav	1-0
Dubov, Daniil	Duda, Jan-Krzysztof	½-½
Giri, Anish	Vitiugov, Nikita	½-½
So, Wesley	Firouzja, Alireza	1-0
Van Foreest, Jorden	Carlsen, Magnus	½-½
Xiong, Jeffery	Caruana, Fabiano	½-½
Yu, Yangyi	Anand, Viswanathan	½-½

Tata Steel Masters 2020 Rankings after Round 4

#	Name	Pts	SB
1	So, Wesley	3.0	6.00
2	Xiong, Jeffery	2.5	5.75
	Caruana, Fabiano	2.5	4.75
	Firouzja, Alireza	2.5	4.00
	Van Foreest, Jorden	2.5	4.00
	Artemiev, Vladislav	2.5	2.75
7	Carlsen, Magnus	2.0	4.00
	Giri, Anish	2.0	3.75
	Duda, Jan-Krzysztof	2.0	3.25
	Dubov, Daniil	2.0	2.75
11	Vitiugov, Nikita	1.5	3.50
	Anand, Viswanathan	1.5	2.75
13	Yu, Yangyi	1.0	1.75
14	Kovalev, Vladislav	0.5	1.00

Seven games in the second round of Tata Steel 2020, and 4 were won by white. The rest were draws:

Tata Steel 2020 Round 2 Results

White	Black	Results
Artemiev, Vladislav	Vitiugov, Nikita	1-0
Dubov, Daniil	Kovalev, Vladislav	1-0
Duda, Jan-Krzysztof	Firouzja, Alireza	½-½
Giri, Anish	Caruana, Fabiano	½-½
So, Wesley	Anand, Viswanathan	1-0
Xiong, Jeffery	Van Foreest, Jorden	1-0
Yu, Yangyi	Carlsen, Magnus	½-½

Tata Steel 2020 Ranking after Round 2

#	Name	Pts	SB
1	Xiong, Jeffery	1.5	1.75
	So, Wesley	1.5	1
	Artemiev, Vladislav	1.5	0.75
	Dubov, Daniil	1.5	0.75
	Firouzja, Alireza	1.5	0.5
6	Caruana, Fabiano	1	1.25
	Duda, Jan-Krzysztof	1	1
	Giri, Anish	1	1
	Carlsen, Magnus	1	0.75
	Van Foreest, Jorden	1	0.5
11	Anand, Viswanathan	0.5	0.75
	Vitiugov, Nikita	0.5	0.5
	Yu, Yangyi	0.5	0.5
14	Kovalev, Vladislav	0	0

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