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[[File:TataSteelChess2018-1.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5|Playing hall of the 80th Tata Steel Tournament, 2018|alt=A very large crowd sitting around many tables, playing chess in a large hall]]
The '''Tata Steel Chess Tournament''' is an annual chess tournament held in January in [[Wijk aan Zee]], the Netherlands.<ref name="History"/> It was called the '''Hoogovens Tournament'''  from its creation in 1938 until the sponsor [[Koninklijke Hoogovens]] merged with [[British Steel (1967–1999)|British Steel]] to form the [[Corus Group]] in 1999, after which the tournament was renamed the '''Corus Chess Tournament'''. Corus Group was taken over by the [[Tata Group]] and became [[Tata Steel Europe]] in 2007,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6319481.stm|title=India media upbeat on Tata's win|date=1 February 2007|access-date=26 February 2025|website=[[BBC News]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409034142/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6319481.stm|archive-date=9 April 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> with the tournament changing to its current name in 2011. It has also been referred to as "Wijk aan Zee" since the venue change from the town of [[Beverwijk]] to the town of [[Wijk aan Zee]] in 1968. Despite the name changes, the series is numbered sequentially from its Hoogovens beginnings; for example, the 2025 event was referred to as the 87th Tata Steel Chess Tournament.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tatasteelchess.com/en/event-program/masters-challengers-11|title=Masters & Challengers|website=Tata Steel Chess|date=18 January 2025|access-date=22 February 2025|archive-date=18 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250118000931/https://tatasteelchess.com/en/event-program/masters-challengers-11|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chessbase.in/news/87th-Tata-Steel-Chess-2025-Round-12-report|last=Ahmed|first=Shahid|title=Gukesh or Praggnanandhaa - Who will win 87th Tata Steel Masters?|website=[[ChessBase]]|date=2 February 2025|access-date=22 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250211091455/https://chessbase.in/news/87th-Tata-Steel-Chess-2025-Round-12-report|archive-date=11 February 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>

Top [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmasters]] compete in the tournament, but regular club players are welcome to play in the lower groups.<ref name="History">{{cite web|url =https://en.chessbase.com/post/ten-trivia-about-the-tata-steel-tournament-series-the-wimbledon-of-chess|title =Ten Trivia about the Tata Steel Tournament series, the Wimbledon of Chess|first =Eduard|last =Frey|website =[[ChessBase]]|date =13 January 2023|access-date=22 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250115021756/https://en.chessbase.com/post/ten-trivia-about-the-tata-steel-tournament-series-the-wimbledon-of-chess|archive-date=15 January 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> The Masters group pits fourteen of the world's best players against each other in a [[round-robin tournament]], and has sometimes been described as the "[[Wimbledon Championships|Wimbledon]] of Chess".<ref>{{cite web|url =https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jan/12/chess-magnus-carlsen-wijk-aan-zee|title =Magnus Carlsen aims for strong showing at 'Wimbledon of chess' event|first =Leonard|last =Barden|website =[[The Guardian]]|date =12 January 2018|access-date =22 February 2025|archive-date =1 December 2018|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20181201161326/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jan/12/chess-magnus-carlsen-wijk-aan-zee|url-status =live}}</ref><ref name="Tie2018">{{cite web|url =https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/10655-magnus-carlsen-wins-tata-steel-chess-tournament-2018.html|title =Magnus Carlsen wins Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2018|website =[[FIDE]]|date =29 January 2018|access-date =18 March 2018|archive-date =28 January 2019|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20190128135354/https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/10655-magnus-carlsen-wins-tata-steel-chess-tournament-2018.html|url-status =dead}}</ref> Since 1938, there has been a long list of very strong winners; of the fifteen undisputed [[World Chess Champions]] since the first tournament in 1938, only five – [[Alexander Alekhine]], [[Vasily Smyslov]], [[Bobby Fischer]], [[Ding Liren]] and [[Gukesh Dommaraju]] – have not won it. In 2001, nine of the top ten players in the world participated.<ref name="History"/>

Magnus Carlsen holds the record for most wins at the tournament, with eight. Viswanathan Anand is the only other player to have won the event five or more times, with five titles to his name. [[R Praggnanandhaa]] is the defending champion after defeating Gukesh in the tiebreaks in [[Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025|2025]].

Until recently, players ending on the same score shared the title. The first tie-break was held in 2018, with [[Magnus Carlsen]] defeating [[Anish Giri]] to clinch the title.<ref name="Tie2018"/> As of the 2025 edition, if two or more players lead with the same score at the end of the round-robin, they all take part in the tiebreaks to determine the sole winner. The [[time control#Chess|time control]] of the tiebreaks is blitz, and then sudden death.{{efn|The format and number of games is decided by the number of tied players.}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tatasteelchess.com/en/format|title=Format|website=Tata Steel Chess|access-date=22 February 2025|archive-date=7 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250207024055/https://tatasteelchess.com/en/format|url-status=live}}</ref>
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