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    ARONIAN SECURES 4TH WIN AT TATA STEEL CHESS TOURNAMENT

    January 27, 2014 - 15:10 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - Levon Aronian won the Tata Steel tournament with
    8/11, a point and a half clear of Anish Giri and Sergey Karjakin,
    The Week in Chess reported.

    Aronian had already secured first place with a round to go and didn't
    seem too upset when he blundered to a loss in the final round against
    Loek van Wely. Tournament director Jeroen van den Berg confirmed that
    there will be a 77th edition of the tournament next year. Aronian
    said that he was happy with the travelling bringing the game to the
    Dutch public and that he wouldn't mind if there were less rest days
    next year. The Norway chess tournament later in the year will also
    be in several venues and no doubt there will be lessons to be learned
    from that experience too.

    Aronian blundered in time trouble against Van Wely about which he
    said "My most interesting game was with Van Wely but unfortunately
    I spoiled it." "It wasn't my intention to get into time trouble
    but I did in the end" and "I blundered mate in one, of course it's
    disappointing but those things happen." He said his new attitude was
    "Less adventure, more play for an advantage" and that "I already
    have too much confidence I don't really need more than that." He was
    somewhat cagey about the coming Candidates saying that in the last two
    cycles he was "Not really stressed but I really wanted to play well.

    Now I don't."

    Van Wely looked reasonably happy to beat Levon Aronian with black
    in the final round even though his attitude suggested he had rather
    got away with a less than perfect performance. He acknowledged that
    whilst he was happy with his aggressive choice of opening he had then
    misplayed it. Aronian, probably for the first time in the tournament
    got into time trouble and once the complications arrived he looked
    extremely nervous and eventually fell to a pretty blow 38...Bd4+ (other
    moves leave white considerably better) which forced mate for black.

    Caruana was also not happy with his tournament which finished with a
    draw against Wesley So "I lost a lot of games and didn't play so well".

    Hikaru Nakamura felt that finally in the last two or three games of the
    event he started to play well and that this bodes well for the strong
    Zurich tournament next week. Today he had the better of a draw against
    Anish Giri where they played an old line of the English with "crazy"
    complications according to Giri. Giri said he was in good shape in
    the event and that perhaps in retrospect he should have played more
    riskily and maybe won more games at the expense of a loss or two.

    Boris Gelfand too was reasonably happy with his finish even if it
    didn't save his tournament, he beat Pentala Harikrishna in a pawn
    ending.

    Leinier Dominguez was also pleased with his over all performance
    apart from his two losses where he felt he played badly. Today he was
    winning against Sergey Karjakin but said he was so tired he didn't
    manage to calculate the endgame properly.

    Ivan Saric won the B-Group with 10/13 a point and a half clear of Jan
    Timman and Baadur Jobava. Timman's result is especially note-worthy
    as he doesn't play much and this must be one of his best results in
    many years, and it might have been even better as he spoiled a couple
    of wins in later rounds.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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