Anand, Kramnik and Giri win on day one of the Tata Steel Masters 2018 - 1
Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik and Anish Giri share the lead
after the first day of the 80th Tata Steel Masters, these wins
were the longest games of the day too.
World Champion Magnus Carlsen drew against Fabiano Caruana who was glad to get
him in round 1 where he has struggled to be at his best in recent years.
Carlsen has won just a single classical game in 20 tries in the first round of closed events since
2014 (beating Harikrishna in Norway 2016).
In the B-Group Anton Korobov, Jorden Van Foreest (over his brother Lucas) and Dmitry Gordievsky were all winners.
Round 2 pairings Sunday 13th Jan 2018: Hou Yifan-Mamedyarov, Matlakov-So, Karjakin-Anand, Caruana-Jones, Adhiban-Carlsen, Wei Yi-Svidler, Giri-Kramnik