Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri Lead Masters Tournament in Wijk aan Zee

Final round is ahead.

On January 27, the penultimate round 12 the Tata Steel Chess was played in Wijk aan Zee.   

In the Masters tournament, Magnus Carlsen outplayed Maxim Matlakov, Anish Giri bested Baskaran Adhiban, while Vladimir Kramnik defeated Fabiano Caruana. The games Hou Yifan - Wei Yi, Svidler - Karjakin, Jones - Mamedyarov, and Anand - So were drawn. 

Standings after round 12:

1-2. Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri - 8.5 
3. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov - 8
4-5. Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand - 7.5
6-7. Wesley So, Sergey Karjakin - 7 
8. Peter Svidler - 5.5
9. Wei Yi - 5 
10-12. Maxim Matlakov, Gawain Jones, Fabiano Caruana - 4.5
13. Baskaran Adhiban - 3.5 
14. Hou Yifan - 2.5.

Round 13 pairings:

So - Hop Yifan, Mamedyarov - Anand, Matlakov - Jones, Karjakin - Carlsen, Caruana - Svidler, Adhiban - Kramnik, Wei Yi - Giri



Santosh Vidit is leading Tata Steel Challengers with 8.5 points out of 12. Anton Korobov is half a point behind. The Russians Dmitry Gordievsky and Olga Girya have scored 6.5 and 3.5 points respectively. 

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