Sunday, January 23, 2011

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

Group A - Round 8

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

Group B - Round 8
Li Chao - Suryashekhar Ganguly ½-½

Group c - Round 8
Tania Sachdev - Jan Willem de Jong 1-0

Another draw for Anand this time with Levon Aronian playing with White after 34 moves ... But Anand again become joint leader due to loss of Nakamura against Carlsen in 37 moves, who is playing like newly found form and very near to catching the leaders ... Vachier-Lagrave also scored win with Black against Smeets to join Carlsen, Kramnik and Aronian on 3rd place ... Shirov scored his first victory of the tournament.

In group B Ganguly managed draw with Li Chao playing with Black ... In group C Tania Sachdev scored another impressive win over Jan Willem de Jong in 46 moves playing with White.

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