Jorden's game against bottom-placed Donchenko was a potential chance for the local hero to push for tournament victory, but the first result of the day is a draw: #TataSteelChess

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/tata-steel-masters-2021/9/1/3
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Defending Champion Fabiano Caruana beats Wojtaszek and is likely to go into tomorrow's game against Magnus Carlsen as sole or joint leader! #TataSteelChess

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/tata-steel-masters-2021/9/1/4
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A beautiful win by Fabiano Caruana!

Caruana exchanges the dark-square bishop with 13...Bxc3!?, creates a beautiful pair of knights, and then sacrifices both of them to break through and promote his powerful f-pawn!

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A tense draw in Firouzja-Esipenko leaves Firouzja in the joint lead with Caruana with 4 rounds to go:

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/tata-steel-masters-2021/9/1/5
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"What a win by Anish!" Anish Giri joins Caruana & Firouzja in the #TataSteelChess lead as Candidates leader MVL drops out of the Top 10 and is now world no. 13!

Magnus Carlsen bounces back to beat Grandelius and is 1 point off the leaders with 4 #TataSteelChess rounds to go! Tomorrow he plays Fabiano:

A day of big wins in Wijk aan Zee as Anish Giri & Fabiano Caruana hit the front while Magnus hit back!

♟ | With four rounds to go, we now have three leaders; anish giri⁩, Fabiano Caruana⁩ & Alireza Firouzja! What a great ninth round of the #TataSteelChess Tournament! Check out the results, interviews and photos! 👇 https://tatasteelchess.com/news/round-9-tata-steel-chess-tournament-2021/

2021 - Round 9
All photos by © Jurriaan Hoefsmit – Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021

Tata Steel Chess 2021: Caruana, Giri Catch Firouzja As Carlsen Returns To Winning

https://www.chess.com/news/view/2021-tata-steel-chess-tournament-round-9