Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Chess News

At The 3rd Norway Chess tournament 2015, Stavanger

Round 8 - 24.06.2015
Alexander Grischuk (RUS,2781) ½-½ Fabiano Caruana (ITA,2805)
Anish Giri (NED,2773) 1-0 Veselin Topalov (BUL,2798)
Viswanathan Anand (IND,2804) 1-0 Jon Ludvig Hammer (NOR,2677)
Magnus Carlsen (NOR,2876) 1-0 Levon Aronian (ARM,2780)
Hikaru Nakamura (USA,2802) ½-½ Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA,2723)

Anand continues with his dominance with white pieces ... He defeated Jon Ludvig Hammer after 36 moves in well constructed game ... Importantly Veselin Topalov lost to Anish Giri allowing Anand to move within half a point with a round to go ... In the final round Topalov has white against Anand.

So after 8 rounds standing is - Topalov 6 pts, Anand 5½ pts, Giri and Nakamura 5 pts, Caruana, Carlsen and Vachier-Lagrave 3½ pts, Aronian and Grischuk 3 pts, Hammer 2 pts,

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