Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Chess News
At 2nd London Chess Classic, Great Britain

Round 6 - Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Vladimir Kramnik ½-½ Magnus Carlsen
Nigel Short ½-½ David Howell
Luke McShane ½-½ Hikaru Nakamura
Michael Adams ½-½ Viswanathan Anand

So now after this 50 moves draw Anand need to depend upon other results to see his position on standing ... All other matches ended in draw ... Carlsen managed draw in dogfight against Vlad after 68 moves ... So now standing remained same as Anand, Carlsen and McShane sharing top position but Carlsen is on top position as he played 4 matches with Blacks.

In the final round now advantage is to Carlsen, who is facing out of form Nigel Short ... Other hand Anand is facing Kramnik and McShane is facing David Howell.

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At Women's World Chess Championship 2010, Antakya, Turkey

Quarter Final
WGM Wenjun Ju (CHN,2524) ½-½ GM Humpy Koneru (IND,2600) ½-1½
WGM Lufei Ruan (CHN,2480) ½-½ IM Dronavalli Harika (UKR,2462) 1-1

Humpy hold Ju challenge to win her match to moved in semis but Harika had another draw ... That means she is in another long match.

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