♟💙 | The #TataSteelChess Tournament 2021 is about to start.... It's going to be an exciting tournament! Check out the pairings of the first round 👇 and follow our international live stream on http://www.tatasteelchess.com. First round starts tomorrow at 14.00 (CET).

Magnus Carlsen struggled as a 16-year-old in Wijk aan Zee but then won the event as a 17-year-old! Alireza Firouzja starred last year as a 16-year-old and now faces Magnus at 17 in Round 1 this year:

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/tata-steel-masters-2021/1/1/1

#c24live #TataSteelChess

♟💙 | Tata Steel Masters 2021... ready for the first round of the #TataSteelChess Tournament! 💪

🔗 Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63):

Many fond memories of playing in Wijk aan Zee, where I won three times 1999-2001 and played perhaps my greatest game. Good skill to all the players and good luck to the organizers! I'll be watching! #TataSteelChess

We've now added the full #TataSteelChess pairings for all rounds, including a tough start for the kid!

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/tata-steel-masters-2021/1/1/7
#c24live

Half a century ago. West German grandmaster Robert Hübner at the drawing of lots ceremony, Wijk aan Zee.
11th January 1971.
(Photo: B. Verhoeff / ANEFO, via http://www.nationaalarchief.nl.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

“Normal people have to see Naples before they die... but a Chess Grandmaster has to win Wijk aan Zee first.”

🔸 Bent Larsen

@UnityChessClub

The press conference of the winner of the interzonal tournament in Riga-1979 had to be postponed for day. Ruben Rodriguez (PHI) really wanted to beat the winner and leave the last place. But it turned out the opposite. 14 (17) was one of the best results in the history of chess.

🔗 Sergey Kim (@sergey\_e\_kim)

Judit Polgar - Best Chess Tactics

Argentinian grandmaster Miguel Najdorf pictured in play v. Vlastimil Hort at Wijk aan Zee, January 1971.
Behind him - Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia, left) and Robert Hübner (West Germany, right).
(Photo credit: H. Pot/ANEFO, via http://nationaalarchief.nl.)

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

Best Checkmate Combinations Ever - 55

Solve the 50 best chess puzzles from Wijk aan Zee while you wait for #TataSteelChess to start later today:
https://chesspuzzle.net/List/63

The Immortal Problem!!

♟ | Let's see how we transformed Dorpshuis de Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee into the brand new playing hall set-up for the 83rd edition of the #TataSteelChess Tournament!

♟ | Are you ready? First round of the #TataSteelChess Tournament starts in 1 hour (14.00 CET)! Follow the games via our international live stream 👉 http://www.tatasteelchess.com