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I need a good game for motivation: Aronian

I need a good game for motivation: Aronian

YEREVAN, JANUARY 16, ARMENPRESS: The leader of the Armenian men’s chess team Levon Aronian believes that he does not play well at the Tata Steel chess championship held in the Dutch city of Vijk aan Zee.  Armenpress reports, citing the Chess-news website that in the 5th round of the tournament Levon Aronian competed with the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen. Aronian played with blacks and lost on the 47th move.
“This game had a homogenous process. The play position made the blacks to be in a passive state. The blacks had to play very precisely not to lose. The bad position in the tournament list is connected with the fact that I do not perform well. By now I have not played a good game. I need a good game for a good motivation”, - said Aronian.
Aronian has 1,5 points.
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament, formerly called the Corus chess tournament, takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. It was called the Hoogovens tournament until 1999 after which the Dutch steel and aluminum producer Koninklijke Hoogovens merged with British Steel to form the Corus Group on 6 October 1999 ("hoogoven" is Dutch for "blast furnace", literally "high oven"). From 1938 to 1967, the tournament took place in Beverwijk. Corus Group was acquired by Tata Steel in 2007 and changed its name to Tata Steel Europe in September 2010, since when the tournament is called the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The series has continued to be numbered sequentially from its beginnings and hence, the 2011 event was referred to as the 73rd Tata Steel Chess Tournament on the official website.
Very strong chess players compete in the prestigious tournament, but regular club players are welcome to play as well. The top "A" section pits 14 of the world's best against each other in a round-robin tournament. Since 1938, there has been a long list of famous winners, including: Max Euwe, Bent Larsen, Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres, Efim Geller, Lajos Portisch, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, Jan Timman, Anatoly Karpov, Vladimir Kramnik, Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin, Magnus Carlsen, and Hikaru Nakamura. In fact, of the "Classical" world chess champions since World War II, only the names of Vasily Smyslov and Bobby Fischerare missing. In 2001, nine of the top ten players in the world participated.
Viswanathan Anand is the only player to have won five titles of the Hoogovens/Corus/Tata Steel chess tournament in its long history, though three of these were shared wins. Anand also holds the record of most consecutive games played at this tournament without a loss (70 – from 1998 to 2004). Max Euwe, Lajos Portisch, Viktor Korchnoi and Levon Aronian won four times each at Beverwijk and Wijk aan Zee respectively.
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament has two main tournaments. They are played according to the 'round robin' system, whereby each competitor plays in turn against every other during the tournament. The Tata Steel Masters has 14 participants and the Tata Steel Challengers has 14 participants. Both groups start on January 10th 2015. All rounds in Wijk aan Zee begin at 13.30 hours, except for the last round on January 25th, which begins at 12.00 hours.








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