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    Wijk aan Zee (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɛi̯k aːn ˈzeː] literally Neighborhood at Sea) is a village on the coast of the North Sea in the municipality of Beverwijk...
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    Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. It was called the Hoogovens Tournament from its creation...
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    the age of 13, in the C group at the 2004 Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee. He obtained a score of 10½/13, losing just one game (against the highest-rated...
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  • Wijk aan Zee en Duin is a former municipality in the Dutch province of North Holland. It existed from 1817 to 1936, when it was merged with Beverwijk....
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    Wijk aan Zee 1st 2004 66th Corus Chess Tournament, Wijk aan Zee 1st 2004 Dortmunder Schachtage, Dortmund 1st 2006 68th Corus Chess Tournament, Wijk aan...
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    achieved a fourth-place finish in the "B" group at the Corus tournament at Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. Nakamura qualified for the FIDE World Chess Championship...
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    super-tournament wins. Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1999, 10/13, 1st; Linares 1999, 10½/14, 1st; Sarajevo 1999, 7/9, 1st; Wijk aan Zee Corus 2000, 9½/13, 1st;...
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    Tournament 2024 was the 86th edition of the annual chess tournament held in Wijk aan Zee from 13–28 January 2024. The competition followed a similar format to...
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    tournament Wijk aan Zee B, scoring +6−2=3. Mikhail Gurevich (2694) in first place was ½ point ahead and the player to qualify for next year's Wijk aan Zee A....
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  • Wijk can refer to: Wijk aan Zee, part of the municipality Beverwijk, in North Holland, the Netherlands Wijk bij Duurstede, in Utrecht, the Netherlands...
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    the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2010. "Wijk R13: Aronian, Carlsen win Wijk aan Zee 2008". chessbase.com. 28 January 2008. Archived from...
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    Anand's Immortal is a chess game played by Levon Aronian as White against Viswanathan Anand as Black in Round 4 of the 2013 Tata Steel Chess Tournament...
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    Machine; accessed 15 February 2007. "Wijk aan Zee 2007". Chessbase.com. Retrieved 3 December 2011. "Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2007. Round 13 28th January 2007"...
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    renamed after Tata Steel, which purchased the Corus Group. It was held in Wijk aan Zee from 12 to 27 January 2013. The tournament was won by Magnus Carlsen...
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    renamed after Tata Steel, which purchased the Corus Group. It was held in Wijk aan Zee from 14 to 29 January 2012. The tournament was won by Levon Aronian for...
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    Aronian shared first place at the category 19 Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee along with Veselin Topalov and Radjabov. All three scored 8.5/13. In...
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    Kasparov as White against Veselin Topalov as Black at the Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee Chess Tournament 1999 chess tournament. This is one of Kasparov's most...
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  • Kd6 30.Rxd5+ Kc6 31.Qf6+ 1–0 Magnus Carlsen vs. Evgeny Tomashevsky, Wijk aan Zee NED 2016: 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bf4 b6 4.e3 Bb7 5.h3 Be7 6.Bd3 0-0 7.0-0...
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    times (July 1991, July 1992, October 2007). Ivanchuk has won Linares, Wijk aan Zee, Tal Memorial, Gibraltar Masters and M-Tel Masters titles. He has also...
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    January 2024). "Chess: forgotten world champion Ding Liren to return at Wijk aan Zee". The Guardian. Barden, Leonard (2024-06-03). "Chess: World champion...
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    player in the Netherlands, having switched from Russia in 2009. In 2021 Wijk aan Zee, Giri tied for first place with fellow Dutch GM Jorden van Foreest, but...
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    the 79th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. It was held in Wijk aan Zee (with away days in Rotterdam and Haarlem) from 14 to 29 January 2017...
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    the 83rd edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. It was held in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands from 15-31 January 2021, but was not open to visitors ("online...
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  • Zvjaginsev, Wijk aan Zee. Black wins with a series of sacrifices that force White's king up to the 6th rank. Known as "The Pearl of Wijk aan Zee". 1995: Veselin...
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    deciding rapidplay tiebreak by 2½–1½. Gelfand has won major tournaments at Wijk aan Zee, Tilburg, Moscow, Linares and Dos Hermanas. He has competed in eleven...
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    Katwijk aan Zee (literally, Katwijk-upon-Sea) is a seaside resort located on the North Sea at the mouth of the Oude Rijn. It is situated in the municipality...
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    following month, he won the Group B of the Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, thus qualifying for the 2006 Group A. Karjakin entered the world's top...
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    Tournament 2022 is the 84th edition of the annual chess tournament held in Wijk aan Zee. It was held from 14 January to 30 January 2022. No visitors were allowed...
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  • 2007 was the 69th edition of the Corus Chess Tournament. It was held in Wijk aan Zee in January 2007 and was won jointly by Levon Aronian, Veselin Topalov...
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    another GM norm in Group B at the round robin Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee in 2010, but fell just short with a performance rating of 2580 by virtue...
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