Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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

Group A - Round 10

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

Group B - Round 10
Friso Nijboer - Suryashekhar Ganguly 0-1

Group c - Round 10
Benjamin Bok - Tania Sachdev ½-½

Anand and Nakamura again take joint lead with dominating wins after 10th round ... Anand defeated Shirov in 26 moves playing with white ... Nakamura defeated Vachier-Lagrave in 33 moves playing with white ... Other 2 last round joint leaders , Kramnik and Aronian, matches ended in a draw.

In other match Nepomniachtchi handed shock defeat playing with black to Carlsen in 53 moves ... So that is almost ended Carlsen title hope.

In group B Ganguly scored much needed victory playing with black in 51 moves ... In group C match Tania hold Benjamin Bok in marathon match after 70 moves.

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