Hello, Tata!

"Supergrandmaster" tournaments don't always deliver the excitement that the name implies, but the tiny hamlet of Wijk aan Zee on the Dutch north coast has always lived up to the billing - and this year the Tata Steel Chess Tournament will be no different than any of the others in the long and storied history of what has always been regarded as the first - and many would argue the most important - major of the year.

For the 74th edition of the tournament, the 14-player A group is the strongest yet of the series and headed by world #1 Magnus Carlsen, and also includes world #2 Levon Aronian, Teimour Radjabov, Veselin Topalov, Sergey Karjakin, Vassily Ivanchuk, Vugar Gashimov, defending champion Hikaru Nakamura, world championship challenger Boris Gelfand, Fabiano Caruana, Gata Kamsky, recent Reggio Emilia victor Anish Giri, David Navara and Loek Van Wely.

But wait, there's more....there's also a B group and a C group with a host of supporting stars - such as Lazaro Bruzon, Alexander Motylev, Pentala Harikrishna, Jan Timman, Illya Nyzhnyk and Matthew Sadler - as the side event to the main attraction of Carlsen & Co. All in all a veritable smorgasbord of top-class chess is coming your way soon, with the Tata Steel Chess Tournament getting underway on Saturday, running 14th through 29th January.

And ICC's ever-popular Chess.FM team of grandmasters of the mic will be back on the air to cover every move of the Tata Steel Tournament from start to finish, with all the very best in live commentary action from the likes of GMs Yasser Seirawan, Ronen Har-Zvi, Joel Benjamin, Alex Yermolinsky, Larry Christiansen, Gregory Kaidanov, Jan Smeets, David Smerdon et al.

And to give to all you non-ICC members out there an idea of what you are all missing, by not being able to tune-in to Chess.FM's live coverage of all the major elite events throughout the year, in our last two newsletters we've released in full (and for free!) both days of World Cup winner and 6-time Russian Champion Peter Svidler's commentary alongside Yasser Seirawan from last year's London Chess Classic! Join ICC today by clicking here to make sure you don't miss a single minute of Chess.FM's live commentary coverage and Game of the Days throughout 2012!

Click here to watch 4 hours-plus of GM Peter Svidler Rd7
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2012: ICC iPad App Upgrade

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Day	Show	Host
Sunday	Every Russian Schoolboy Knows	GM Alex Yermolinsky
Monday	Ronens Opening Survey	GM Ronen Har-Zvi
Tuesday	Beyond the Opening	IM John Watson
Wednesday	Attack with LarryC	GM Larry Christiansen
Thursday	Gambit Guide	GM Boris Alterman
Friday	Game of the Week	GM Joel Benjamin
Saturday	Improve Your Chess	NM Dan Heisman

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