Thursday, May 09, 2013

Chess News
At Norway Tournament 2013,

Round 1 (May 8, 2013) in Stavanger
Magnus Carlsen (NOR,2868) - Veselin Topalov (BUL,2793) ½-½
Viswanathan Anand (IND,2783) - Levon Aronian (ARM,2813) ½-½
Hikaru Nakamura (USA,2775) - Wang Hao (CHN,2743) 1-0
Peter Svidler (RUS,2769) - Jon Ludvig Hammer (NOR,2608) 1-0
Sergey Karjakin (RUS,2767) - Teimour Radjabov (AZE,2745) 1-0

Anand and Levon Aronian fought a good game after a very unconventional Ruy Lopez and they drew in 33 moves ... Carlsen tried hard for win but Topalov managed to hold him after 51 moves ... All other matches were having decisive results ... Karjakin defeated Radjabov after 41 moves ... Nakamura defeated Hao in 42 moves and Svidler defeated lower rated local player Hammer in 45 moves.

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