Tata Metal Chess 2022: All The Data

Location

The match is held yearly in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, a small resort city on the North Sea.

Format

The match is a single round-robin. Everybody performs one another as soon as for a complete of 13 rounds.

In every sport, the gamers get 100 minutes for the primary 40 strikes, 50 minutes for the subsequent 20, and quarter-hour for the rest of the sport. There’s a 30-second increment all through.

New this yr is {that a} tie for first is damaged by a tiebreak amongst all gamers who end in clear first place. Extra novelties within the tiebreak process:

• The only armageddon sport has been modified for probably a number of sudden-death video games. For example, if two gamers tie for first, they’ll first play two 3+2 blitz video games but when they tie 1-1, they’ll proceed enjoying sudden-death video games (alternating colours) till there’s a decisive sport.
• The time management of the sudden-death sport(s) is 2 and a half minutes for White and three minutes for Black with a two-second increment per transfer.

Listed below are extra particulars in regards to the tiebreak process.

Gamers

The sphere consists of 14 gamers. At the very least one Dutch participant participates yearly and GM Anish Giri was the primary participant to be confirmed for 2022. An extra 12 gamers have been introduced on October 26, 2021, with GM Vidit Gujrathi finishing the sector on November 23. Most years, the winner of the earlier Challengers Match additionally performs within the Masters, however there was no Challengers Match in 2021. 

The whole area is beneath (ranking and rating from the official January 2022 FIDE listing).

The Challengers area is accessible right here. 

Rules

Rules could be discovered right here.

Historical past

The match was first performed in 1938 as an area Dutch match. It has been held yearly since aside from 1945, throughout which era it grew into a serious worldwide occasion. Initially performed in Beverwijk, it moved to Wijk aan Zee in 1968. The sponsor has additionally advanced, from Hoogovens in 1938, to Corus in 1999, and at last, Tata Metal beginning in 2011.

From 1938-2021, GM Magnus Carlsen (7) and GM Viswanathan Anand (5) have essentially the most match victories. 4 gamers are tied slightly below them at 4 wins: GMs Levon Aronian, Max Euwe, Viktor Korchnoi, and Lajos Portisch.

Each match champion because it grew to become often known as Tata Metal in 2011 is beneath. The total listing is on the Tata Metal Chess web site.