Saturday, January 22, 2011

Chess News
At Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2011, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

Group A - Round 7

Magnus Carlsen - Viswanathan Anand ½-½
Hikaru Nakamura - Jan Smeets 1-0
Max. Vachier-Lagrave - Erwin l'Ami ½-½
Ian Nepomniachtchi - Ruslan Ponomariov ½-½
Vladimir Kramnik - Anish Giri 1-0
Wang Hao - Alexei Shirov ½-½
Alexander Grischuk - Levon Aronian 0-1

Group B - Round 7
Suryashekhar Ganguly - Wouter Spoelman 1-0

Group c - Round 7
Murtas Kazhgaleyev - Tania Sachdev 1-0

Boring stuff for spectators as Anand and Carlsen agreed for quick draw in 18 moves ... Anand and Carlsen's quick draw opened door for Nakamura and he take full advantage of it scoring win in 61 moves to take sole lead ... Kramnik and Aronian won their respective matches to moved on joint third position, they r only ½ pt behind second place Anand.

In group B, Ganguly scored dominating win in 26 moves playing with White ... But in group C, Tania lost against Murtas Kazhgaleyev in 52 moves playing with Black.

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