Friday, January 28, 2011

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

Group A - Round 11

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

Group B - Round 11
Suryashekhar Ganguly - Luke McShane 0-1

Group c - Round 11
Tania Sachdev - Roeland Pruijssers ½-½

Anand agreed to draw with Vachier-Lagrave playing with black after 34 moves ... But Nakamura take sole lead with win over Nepomniachtchi in 44 moves ... Carlsen played excellent end game to beat Kramnik in 80 moves playing with black ... So now after 11th round, Nakamura is leading with 8 pts, Anand is second with 7½ pts, Aronian is in 3rd place with 7 pts and Carlsen with Kramnik r on 6½ pts.

In group B Ganguly faced another loss against McShane in 57 moves ... In group C Tania managed to hold Pruijssers in 34 moves.

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