Tata Steel First Round Draw
The opening ceremony and draw took place today at Wijk Aan Zee, and the first round highlight is arguably the clash between Magnus Carlsen and Lev Aronian in the A Group.
The full first round draw for each of the groups is below. The full round-by-round schedule is available at the official website for the A Group, B Group and C Group.
Games start at 13:30 local time (12:30 GMT and 07:30 EST), and Chess.com will have live coverage at Chess.com/TV. The first round will be covered by IM David Pruess and is free to all members.
The official website can be found at www.tatasteelchess.com, and there is also an official Twitter account and Facebook page for the tournament.
The 3 Dutch GMs in Group A (l to r) L'Ami, Giri and Smeets pose with Carlsen and Anand
(picture from the official Facebook page)
The round one draw:
| Group A | |
| Nepomniachtchi, Ian | Kramnik, Vladimir |
| Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | Wang, Hao |
| Nakamura, Hikaru | Grischuk, Alexander |
| Carlsen, Magnus | Aronian, Levon |
| Smeets, Jan | Shirov, Alexei |
| L'Ami, Erwin | Giri, Anish |
| Ponomariov, Ruslan | Anand, Viswanathan |
| Group B | |
| Hammer, Jon Ludvig | Efimenko, Zahar |
| Sargissian, Gabriel | Ganguly, Surya Shekhar |
| Le, Quang Liem | So, Wesley |
| Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | Navara, David |
| McShane, Luke | Spoelman, Wouter |
| Nijboer, Friso | Li, Chao |
| Tkachiev, Vladislav | Fressinet, Laurent |
| Group C | |
| Van Kampen, Robin | Vocaturo, Daniele |
| Nyzhnyk, Illya | Kazhgaleyev, Murtas |
| Swiercz, Dariusz | De Jong, Jan-Willem |
| Lahno, Kateryna | Bluvshtein, Mark |
| Ivanisevic, Ivan | Tania, Sachdev |
| Siebrecht, Sebastian | Pruijssers, Roeland |
| Van Der Werf, Mark | Bok, Benjamin |
