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Dortmund R04: Kramnik catches Adams

7/30/2013 – Thee decisive results in today's Dortmund round. Kramnik defeated Meier with black in a Catalan to catch up with Adams, who held Leko to a draw effortlessly. Khenkin and Fridman drew, while Naiditsch sprung a novelty on Andrejkin who quickly lost his way. Lastly Caruana has now lost two in a row after being beaten by Wang Hao. Report and analysis.

Dortmund R02 & R03: Adams takes the lead

7/28/2013 – Adams crashes through with back to back Berlin wins against Andreikin and Caruana. Today's game took a quick and sharp turn as Black sacrificed a piece for initiative, regained that piece and was left with a winning position. The other games saw two quick draws and two interesting draws as Khenkin pulled out some cool tricks to equalize against Kramnik. GM Analysis, report and standings.

Dortmund R01: Three wins, Caruana 2800 live

7/26/2013 – The annual Dortmund Sparkassen chess tournament started with some surprising events. Wang Hao dropped a full rook against Kramnik while Meier slowly ground down his higher rated compatriot Naiditsch. Caruana defeated Andreikin and is now exactly 2800.0 in the live list. The two other games, Khenkin-Leko and Fridman-Adams were drawn, but not for lack of trying. Games and analysis.
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