Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Magnum Magnum

The first twelve Grandmasters of the 80th Tata Steel Chess Tournament – to be held in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, from 12 to 28 January 2018 – were announced. They are in alphabetical order: Baskaran Adhiban, Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán), Gawain Christopher B. Jones, Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin, Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Wesley So, and 韦奕 (Wéi Yì). The thirteenth Grandmaster will be announced in November and the fourteenth in December, both on rating criteria.

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