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The biggest smile in the Tata Steel Masters 2017 goes to Wesley So. Who managed to win another tournament victory after winning the Grand Chess Tour in 2016. Managing to gain victories against the lower half of the draw and draws against the top contenders he managed to win the tournament by a clear point from Magnus. I would highlight Magnus's loss against Richard Rapport and draw against Anish Giri when he could have checkmated his opponent as possible reasons why Magnus didn't finish on 9/13 and level with Wesley So. All in all it was an exciting tournament with exciting games with excellent coverage from various studios around the world. Richard Rapport in particular brought novelties to the for with unusual openings. Lots of endgame studies with Rook and pawn endings being the destination of choice of many a super grandmaster. Check out chess24 's round up of the Tata Steel tournament and video below of Wesley So's interview at the end of the tournamen...

Peter played the English (beginning 1. c4) Peter on move 6 went for Nc2, moving the knight a second time, rather than the computer recommendation e3. The resultant opening allowed black to launch a dangerous attack on the kingside which Peter ably refuted and it petered out to a draw. https://chess24.com/en/analysis/alisdair-condie/session/anlzMRxUEPpZSP--At26XT52FQ

Peter Svidler played against Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez of Spain. Who in turn played Donald Trump's favourite opening against Peter. Previously known as the Trompowsky named after a Brazilian chess champion of the 1930's. The Trumposky begins with 1. d4 , Nf6 then 2. Bg5 with the bishop directly attacking the Knight on f6. Options from this are various and can be explored on Chess24 with the help of Lawrence Trent who did a series on the Trompowsky. The opening is a popular opening. And was used by Magnus Carlsen in game 1 of his World Chess Championship match against Karjakin in New York. In this game Peter countered Juan's initial opening and managed to catch out Juan with a middle game tactic which finished the game early. chess game link .

How many logs does it take to make a raft? The raft I speak of course is that of the Kon-tiki. A reenactment of a theory to see if it was possible for a traveller to make a voyage across the pacific ocean. Trying to prove that people from Peru could have populated the Polynesian islands. It came to grief on an isolated island the voyagers were rescued and a book written. Which is, quite probably, available on amazon. The raft is on show in a museum in Norway. I saw it once. I think I was 15-17 at the time. Made entirely of wood. 14 metre balsa trunks forming the main platform upon which a log cabin and mast were attached. Planks of pine forming the platform, they set sail in 1947 to try and cross the vast ocean of the pacific. To show how people could have traveled and populated the ocean. The movie, tells the story in dramatic style. Facing all that nature could bring in an ocean that has wrecked so many larger ships in the past they set sail on April the 28th. Trailer