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ROMGAZ and the Chess Club Society "Elisabeta Polihroniade” of Bucharest are staging a double round robin tournament with six top GMs: the world's second highest ranked player, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, who at the age of 20 has an Elo rating of 2815. Ukrainian GM Vassily Ivanchuk, currently the world's number five, rated 2776; Sergey Karjakin, former child prodigy and youngest GM of all time, now playing for Russia, rated 2776; top US grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, clear winner of this year's Wijk aan Zee tournament; Teimour Radjabov, at 2744 one of Azerbaijan's top GMs, and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, the best Romanian player, currently rated 2659. The competition is taking place from June 11th to 22nd 2011 in Medias, Romania. | 
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| Round 1: Saturday, June 11, 15:30h | ||
Vassily Ivanchuk |
1-0 |
Teimour Radjabov |
Magnus Carlsen |
1-0 |
Hikaru Nakamura |
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
½-½ |
Sergey Karjakin |
Two wins and one draw – an excellent start of the Kings Tournament! Especially excellent was it for Carlsen and Ivanchuk, who with the white pieces convincingly defeated their opponents Nakamura and Radjabov. Ivanchuk made full use of Radjabov's mistake right after the opening, while Carlsen finely outplayed Nakamura in a complicated middlegame position. In a theorectical battle Nisipeanu-Karjakin, the Russian grandmaster proved better prepared and achieved a comfortable draw. – GM Dorian Rogozenco.
Hikaru Nakamura kibitzing Vassily Ivanchuk vs Teimour Radjabov
Ivanchuk,V (2776) - Radjabov,T (2744) [E73]
5th King's Tournament Medias ROU (1), 11.06.2011
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0-0 6.Bg5 Na6 7.f4 c6 8.Qd2
Nc7 9.Bf3 Ne6 10.Bh4 c5 11.dxc5 Nxc5 12.Rd1 Be6 13.b3 a5 14.Nge2 Qc7 15.0-0
a4 16.f5 gxf5 17.exf5 Bxf5 18.Bxf6 exf6 19.b4 Ne6 20.Nb5 Qb6+ 21.Kh1 Ng5 22.Bxb7
Qxb7 23.Rxf5 Ne4 24.Qd3 Rfe8 25.Ned4 Rac8 26.Rf4 Bf8 27.Rdf1 Re5 28.a3 Kh8 29.Nf5
Rd8 30.Nc3 Nxc3 31.Qxc3 Rde8 32.Rg4 Qc8 33.Qg3 h5 34.Rg8+ Kh7 35.Rxf8 1-0. [Click
to replay]
A crushing win in 35 moves: Vassily Ivanchuk
The start of the top game Magnus Carlsen vs Hikaru Nakamura
Carlsen,M (2815) - Nakamura,Hi (2774) [D31]
5th King's Tournament Medias ROU (1), 11.06.2011
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Be7 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bf4 c6 6.Qc2 Bg4 7.e3 Bh5 8.Bd3
Bg6 9.Bxg6 hxg6 10.0-0-0 Nf6 11.f3 Nbd7 12.Nge2 b5 13.e4 b4 14.Na4 dxe4 15.fxe4
Qa5 16.Kb1 0-0 17.h4 Rfe8 18.e5 Nd5 19.h5 g5 20.h6 g6 21.Bc1 N7b6 22.Nc5 Bxc5
23.dxc5 b3 24.Qxb3 Qxc5 25.Nd4 Rxe5 26.Nf3 Re2 27.Nxg5 Qe7 28.Qd3 Rf8 29.Rdf1
f5 30.g4 Na4 31.Qd4 Qe5 32.Qxe5 Rxe5 33.gxf5 gxf5 34.Nf3 Re7 35.Rfg1+ Kh7 36.Rg7+
Kh8 37.Rhg1 Rfe8 38.Nh4 Rxg7 1-0. [Click
to replay]
Magnus contemplating the opening line his American opponent has played...
... and playing his move after reaching a decision
Nisipeanu,LD (2659) - Karjakin,Sergey (2776) [E54]
5th King's Tournament Medias ROU (1), 11.06.2011
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 0-0 5.Bd3 d5 6.Nf3 c5 7.0-0 dxc4 8.Bxc4
cxd4 9.exd4 a6 10.a3 Bxc3 11.bxc3 Qc7 12.Bd3 Qxc3 13.Bf4 Nc6 14.Re1 h6 15.Bd6
Rd8 16.Bc7 Rd7 17.Re3 Qb2 18.Re2 Qc3 19.Re3 Qb2 20.Re2 Qc3 1/2-1/2.
[Click to replay]
Round one is under way ...
... with a small crowd of enthusiasts there to watch the start of the games
The Natural Gas Documentation and Information Centre, where the games are
played
Across the road: a department store and buildings under construction
A police car has escorted the players' convoy on the 20-minute from Bazna to
Medias
Vassily Ivanchuk, who had been reported missing, is the first to emerge
The Carlsen clan, with Signe, Magnus and Henrik (carrying the obligatory OJ)
Hikaru Nakamura, Alexander Motylev, the second of Sergey Karjakin (right)
In the playing hall Sergey faces his Romanian colleague Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
A panorama view of the first round in full swing
In the press room Ivanchuk's second Šarūnas Šulskis follows the games with
GM Ian Rogers and his wife Kathy
Henrik Carlsen takes pleasure in his son's performance, while daughter Signe...
is engrossed in a book
After his game Magnus drops by to analyse with our colleague Dorian Rogozenco
We will provide our readers with annotated games by GM Rogozenco shortly.
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