International Events / 2016 Wijk aan Zee Carlsen Wins 2016 Wijk aan
Zee Super-Tournament Caruana second at his Candidates warm-up, So fourth By GM IAN ROGERS
`(l-r): GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Fabiano Caruana, GM Wesley So
equalling fifth title at January’s Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, with U.S. representatives GMs Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So also performing strongly.
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The 78th edition of the traditional Dutch seaside tournament saw Carlsen suffer his traditional slow start, but in the fifth round he began a winning run which soon overwhelmed early leader Caruana. (Carlsen’s secret?—“Get on a streak and start winning a lot of games in a short time.”—easy if you can do it!)
Carlsen’s best game was the second of his three game winning streak mid-tournament.
QUEEN’S PAWN OPENING (D02) GM Magnus Carlsen (FIDE 2844, NOR) GM Evgeny Tomashevsky (FIDE 2728, RUS) Tata Steel Chess 2016 (6), Wijk aan Zee, North Holland, 01.22.2016
40 April 2016 | Chess Life
8. ... Nc6 “He has many decent ways to play,” said
Carlsen, hinting at 8. ... cxd4 9. exd4 d6 followed by 10. ... Nbd7.
9. Nbd2 d5 10. Qe2 Bd6 Played after another 20 minutes thought.
“He can try 11. ... Bxf4 12. exf4 cxd4 13. Nxd4 Nxd4 14. cxd4 Qd6 but he is passive and will
mixture of brilliance, luck and consistency took World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen to a record-
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Bf4 “The London System is a little better after
Black has committed to ... e6,” said Carlsen.
3. ... b6 4. e3 Bb7 5. h3 Be7 6. Bd3 0-0 7. 0-0 c5 8. c3
“He spent a lot of time here,” said Carlsen—
Tomashevsky took half an hour on his last three moves.
11. Rfe1 “I had many options here: 11. Bg5 or 11.
Ne5, though then he plays 11. ... Qc7 and I didn’t see anything,” said Carlsen.
11. ... Ne7!?
PHOTOS: SO AND CARLSEN BY ALINA L’AMI; CARUANA BY DAVID LLADA
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