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
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