Friday, May 10, 2013

Chess News
At Norway Tournament 2013,

Round 2 (May 9, 2013) in Sandnes
Magnus Carlsen (NOR,2868) - Viswanathan Anand (IND,2783) ½-½
Veselin Topalov (BUL,2793) - Teimour Radjabov (AZE,2745) ½-½
Levon Aronian (ARM,2813) - Hikaru Nakamura (USA,2775) 1-0
Wang Hao (CHN,2743) - Peter Svidler (RUS,2769) 1-0
Jon Ludvig Hammer (NOR,2608) - Sergey Karjakin (RUS,2767) 0-1

In the second round all focus was on the game between Carlsen and Anand ... Both played a Sicilian Moscow variation but middle game mistake from Anand gave advantage to Carlsen ... Carlsen failed to convert this advantage and game drew after 59 moves ... Radjabov hold Topalov after 40 moves ... Aronian defeated Nakamura after long 70 moves ... Hao Wang scored upset win over Svidler after 63 moves ... Karjakin take a lead with 2nd victory in two games beating Hammer in 54 moves.

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