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The 2013 edition of Tata Steel Chess runs from 11 to 27 January 2013. Two Indian players feature in the top Grandmaster Group A section- V Anand and P Harikrishna. Players in Grandmaster Group A GM    Carlsen, Magnus    NOR    2861 GM    Aronian, Levon    ARM    2802 GM    Caruana, Fabiano    ITA    2781 GM    Karjakin, Sergey    RUS    2780 GM    Anand, Viswanathan    IND    2772 GM    Nakamura, Hikaru    USA    2769 GM    Wang, Hao    CHN    2752 GM    Leko, Peter    HUN    2735 GM    Giri, Anish    NED    2720 GM    Harikrishna, Pentala    IND ...

Notable points on the new FIDE rating list: Nakamura is No. 12 (but No. 6 and just a couple of points away from No. 5 on the Live Chess Rating list. Three ELO 2800+ players. Anna Muzychuk is now ELO 2580 and No. 4 in the Women's world ranking list. Hou Yifan is 122 points (!!!) ahead of the No. 2 in the World Junior Girls ranking. Editor www.IMChess.com

Two great events and two predictable winners! Yes, Kramnik already won Dortmund with a round to go. He's still unblemished but Carlsen could not escape a loss. Kramnik breached the 2800 during the tournament on the Live Chess Ratings list. It is very clear that he is now back to his best. Expect a surge from here. Anand, Carlsen - guys, you better look out. Both the tournaments had a sprinkle of the future Chess World order - Maxime Vachier, Caruana, Quang Leim, and Anish Giri. Nakamura? Well, allow him to create his own destiny. Hard to predict! What do you think of the future of Chess?

The spectacular finals of the Cap D'Agde tournament takes place today between the classical favorite Ivanchuk and the maverick Nakamura. Update: Hiraku Nakamura of the USA won the Cap D'Agde 2008 tournament by clearly outplaying Vassily Ivanchuk of the Ukraine 1.5-0.5 Watch the live coverage here. We will post the moves regularly. Finals Game 2 - Vassily Ivanchuk (2786) - Hikaru Nakamura (2704) : 1/2 Game 1 - Hikaru Nakamura (2704) - Vassily Ivanchuk (2786) : 1-0 Ivanchuk started to go astray around move 32 and was thoroughly outplayed after that. Game 2 1-0

GM Hiraku Nakamura and IM David Pruess finished first with 6 points out of the possible seven at the North American Open chess tournament 2007. Shabalov, Becerra and Kretchetov finished next with 5.5 points. Final Standings: 1 Hikaru Nakamura and IM David Pruess 6 3- GM Alexander Shabalov, GM Julio Becerra and FM Alex Kretchetov- 5.5 6-10- GM Varuzhan Akobian, GM Jesse Kraai, Denys K.Shmelov, GM Gildardo J. Garcia and IM Vladimir Mezentsev- 5

Six rounds of the North American open have been completed. GM Alexander Shabalov is leading the strong field with 5.5 points. He has won all his games except one. GM Hiraku Nakamura and GM Varuzhan Akobian along with IM David Pruess. FMs Alex Kretchetov and Jake Kleiman are ranked high in a strong field. Nakamura was held to two draws by IM Joshua Friedel and GM Jesse Kraai. No results of a few rounds of Irina Krush have been published. The top 20 after round 6: 1 GM Alexander Shabalov 5½ 2 GM Hikaru Nakamura 5 3 GM Varuzhan Akobian 5 4 IM David Pruess 5 5 GM Ildar Ibragimov 4½ 6 GM Julio J Becerra 4½ 7 FM Alex Kretchetov 4½ 8 FM Jake Kleiman 4½ 9 GM Nikola Mitkov 4 10 GM Jesse Kraai 4 11 GM Gildardo J Garcia 4 12 GM Dashze Sharavdorj 4 13 IM Vladimi Mezentsev 4 14 FM Slava Mikhailuk 4 15 Denys K Shmelov 4 16 FM Robby Adamson 4 17 Dennis Monokroussos 4 18 GM Anatoly Y Lein 4 19 FM Matthew Beelby 4 20 Rodelay Medina 4