Friday, January 11, 2013

Pairings are Up!

Here is the first round of Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2013 and my fantasy predictions (highlighted in red are 1.0):

(See Live Games here)


Group A Round 1 - Saturday the 12th
Aronian, L. - van Wely, L. 
Carlsen, M. - Caruana, F. 
Harikrishna, P. - Giri, A. 
Anand, V. - Nakamura, H. 
Sokolov, I. - Wang, H. 
Leko, P. - L'Ami, E. 
Karjakin, S. - Hou, H. 

Group B Round 1 - Saturday the 12th
Rapport, R. - van Kampen, R.
Edouard, R. - Nikolic, P.
Ernst, S. - Timman, J.
Movsesian, S. - Naiditsch, A.
Tiviakov, S. - Ipatov, A.
Turov, M. - Grandelius, N.
Dubov, D. - Smeets, J.

Group C Round 1 - Saturday the 12th
Peralta, F. - Goryachkina, A.
Swinkels, R. - Kovchan, A.
Brunello, S. - Klein, D.
Schut, L. - Admiraal, M.
Bitensky, I. - Romanishin, O.
Mekhitarian, K. - Burg, T.


Grandmaster Group A (average rating:  2732)

Name
Country
Rating
Predict. Round 1
GM
NOR
2861
1
GM
Aronian, Levon
ARM
2802
0.5
GM
Caruana, Fabiano
ITA
2781
0
GM
Karjakin, Sergey
RUS
2780
0.5
GM
Anand, Viswanathan
IND
2772
0.5
GM
USA
2769
0.5
GM
Wang, Hao
CHN
2752
0.5
GM
Leko, Peter
HUN
2735
1
GM
Giri, Anish
NED
2720
1
GM
Harikrishna, Pentala
IND
2698
0
GM
van Wely, Loek
NED
2679
0.5
GM
Sokolov, Ivan
NED
2663
0.5
GM
L'Ami, Erwin
NED
2627
0
GM
Hou, Yifan
CHN
2603
0.5

Grandmaster Group B (average rating:  2627)

GM
Naiditsch, Arkadij
GER
2708
0.5
GM
Movsesian, Sergei
ARM
2688
0.5
GM
Edouard, Romain
FRA
2686
0.5
GM
Tiviakov, Sergey
NED
2655
0.5
GM
Turov, Maxim
RUS
2630
0.5
GM
Rapport, Richard
HUN
2621
1
GM
Nikolic, Predrag
BIH
2619
0.5
GM
Smeets, Jan
NED
2615
1
GM
Dubov, Daniil
RUS
2600
0
GM
Ipatov, Alexander
TUR
2587
0.5
GM
van Kampen, Robin
NED
2581
0
GM
Grandelius, Nils
SWE
2572
0.5
GM
Timman, Jan
NED
2566
0
GM
Ernst, Sipke
NED
2556
1

Grandmaster Group C (average rating:  2476)                                                                                 

GM
Peralta, Fernando
ARG
2617
1
GM
Kovchan, Alexander
UKR
2579
0.5
GM
Brunello, Sabino
ITA
2572
0.5
GM
Mekhitarian, Krikor
BRA
2543
0.5
GM
Romanishin, Oleg
UKR
2521
1
IM
Gretarsson, Hjörvar Steinn
ISL
2516
0.5
GM
Swinkels, Robin
NED
2508
0.5
IM
Burg, Twan
NED
2492
0.5
IM
van der Werf, Mark
NED
2450
0.5
IM
Klein, David
NED
2445
0.5
WGM
Goryachkina, Alexandra
RUS
2402
0
IM
Bitensky, Igor
ISR
2400
0
FM
Admiraal, Miguoël
NED
2321
0
WIM
Schut, Lisa
NED
2295
1



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