Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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

Group A - Round 9

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

Group B - Round 9
Suryashekhar Ganguly - Vlad Tkachiev 0-1

Group c - Round 9
Mark Bluvshtein - Tania Sachdev 1-0

As expected another draw for Anand but after 41 moves ... Kramnik catched them with win over Erwin l'Ami ... Carlsen and Vachier-Lagrave ended in a draw, so they remained ½ pt behind 3 leaders who is having 6 pts.

In group B, Ganguly lost playing with white against Vlad Tkachiev in 64 moves ... In group C, Tania received beating in 29 moves from Mark Bluvshtein.

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