Sunday, January 27, 2013

Chess News
At Tata Steel Chess Tournament (Corus Chess Tournament) 2013, Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands

Group A - Round Eleven
Peter Leko - Loek van Wely 1-0 Sergey Karjakin - Ivan Sokolov 1-0
Hou Yifan - Viswanathan Anand ½-½
Erwin L'Ami - Pentala Harikrishna ½-½
Wang Hao - Magnus Carlsen ½-½
Hikaru Nakamura - Levon Aronian 0-1
Anish Giri - Fabiano Caruana 1-0

Group A - Round Twelve
Loek van Wely - Fabiano Caruana 1-0
Levon Aronian - Anish Giri ½-½
Magnus Carlsen - Hikaru Nakamura 1-0
Pentala Harikrishna - Wang Hao ½-½
Viswanathan Anand - Erwin L'Ami 1-0
Ivan Sokolov - Hou Yifan 0-1
Peter Leko - Sergey Karjakin ½-½

In eleventh game Hou Yifan hold World champion Anand in an unique Najdorf opening ... Hou Yifan defended well in endgame despite being down a pawn ... The match ended in draw after 52 moves ... Hari's match also ended in a draw against Erwin L'Ami after 54 moves in Queen's Indian Defense despite having upper hand ... After this round Anand slipped to 3rd position as Levon Aronian moved to 2nd position with win over Hikaru Nakamura with Black.

In twelfth round Magnus Carlse secured title when still one round is remaining ... In very entertaining match he defeated Hikaru Nakamura in 31 moves ... Anand moved up to tied 2nd position with Aronian after fighting win over Dutch grand master L'Ami ... Earlier L'Ami handled the Najdorf beautifully but Anand slowly take initiative ... Than take advantage of mistakes by L'Ami to win it in 54 moves ... Hari and Wang Hao played solid game and their game ended in draw after 49 moves.

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