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Hikaru Nakamura extends his lead by a full point after a huge victory over Yu Yangyi. This catapults the American player to his highest live rating ever, and the 12th highest live rating ever achieved.
Boards 2-7 saw some fighting draws, some more exciting than others. Probably the biggest highlight of those was Hou Yifan's magic trick against Peter Svidler:
A miraculous resource saved Hou Yifan today against Peter Svidler
With these many draws at the top Hikaru Nakamura sits relatively comfortably with 7.5/8. He plays Axel Bachmann with black tomorrow, who is one point behind and about 150 points lower rated. Also one point behind are Daniel Naroditsky and David Howell, who will face each other. 1.5 points behind comes a big crowd that includes Topalov, Svidler, V itiugov, Yu Yangyi and many others, but with only two rounds to go it doesn't seem as any of them have a chance of catching Nakamura.
Yu Yangyi falls far behind Nakamura with this loss
Is he up to the task? Paraguayan GM Axel Bachmann
will be White tomorrow against the leader.
Veselin Topalov regains some ground by beating Ju Wenjun,
who is having a good tournament regardless
Xu Jun is back in action at Gibraltar! Here he faces ACP President Emil Sutovsky
Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | Perf. |
1 | Nakamura Hikaru | USA | 2776 | 7.5 | 3054 |
2 | Howell David W L | ENG | 2670 | 6.5 | 2811 |
3 | Naroditsky Daniel | USA | 2622 | 6.5 | 2762 |
4 | Bachmann Axel | PAR | 2629 | 6.5 | 2724 |
5 | Vitiugov Nikita | RUS | 2735 | 6.0 | 2764 |
6 | Svidler Peter | RUS | 2739 | 6.0 | 2760 |
7 | Yu Yangyi | CHN | 2724 | 6.0 | 2757 |
8 | Topalov Veselin | BUL | 2800 | 6.0 | 2747 |
9 | Hou Yifan | CHN | 2673 | 6.0 | 2743 |
10 | Harikrishna P. | IND | 2723 | 6.0 | 2741 |
11 | Jakovenko Dmitry | RUS | 2733 | 6.0 | 2732 |
12 | Wagner Dennis | GER | 2501 | 6.0 | 2729 |
13 | Wei Yi | CHN | 2675 | 6.0 | 2722 |
14 | Rapport Richard | HUN | 2716 | 6.0 | 2717 |
15 | Adhiban B. | IND | 2630 | 6.0 | 2711 |
16 | Cheparinov Ivan | BUL | 2681 | 6.0 | 2698 |
17 | Padmini Rout | IND | 2388 | 6.0 | 2648 |
18 | Nakar Eylon | ISR | 2419 | 6.0 | 2636 |
19 | Mareco Sandro | ARG | 2583 | 6.0 | 2616 |
20 | Bok Benjamin | NED | 2572 | 6.0 | 2552 |
Bo. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg |
1 | Bachmann Axel | 2629 | 6½ | 7½ | Nakamura Hikaru | 2776 | |
2 | Howell David W L | 2670 | 6½ | 6½ | Naroditsky Daniel | 2622 | |
3 | Topalov Veselin | 2800 | 6 | 6 | Wei Yi | 2675 | |
4 | Adhiban B. | 2630 | 6 | 6 | Svidler Peter | 2739 | |
5 | Vitiugov Nikita | 2735 | 6 | 6 | Mareco Sandro | 2583 | |
6 | Jakovenko Dmitry | 2733 | 6 | 6 | Bok Benjamin | 2572 | |
7 | Yu Yangyi | 2724 | 6 | 6 | Wagner Dennis | 2501 | |
8 | Harikrishna P. | 2723 | 6 | 6 | Padmini Rout | 2388 | |
9 | Hou Yifan | 2673 | 6 | 6 | Rapport Richard | 2716 | |
10 | Nakar Eylon | 2419 | 6 | 6 | Cheparinov Ivan | 2681 | |
11 | Matlakov Maxim | 2695 | 5½ | 5½ | Muzychuk Anna | 2544 | |
12 | Rodshtein Maxim | 2680 | 5½ | 5½ | Ganguly Surya Shekhar | 2595 | |
13 | Felgaer Ruben | 2575 | 5½ | 5½ | Motylev Alexander | 2665 | |
14 | Lalith Babu M.R. | 2537 | 5½ | 5½ | Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo | 2649 | |
15 | Sutovsky Emil | 2637 | 5½ | 5½ | Spraggett Kevin | 2538 | |
16 | Venkatesh M.R. | 2460 | 5½ | 5½ | Bartel Mateusz | 2631 | |
17 | Salgado Lopez Ivan | 2628 | 5½ | 5½ | Xu Jun | 2523 | |
18 | Bologan Viktor | 2608 | 5½ | 5½ | Kuipers Stefan | 2390 | |
19 | Edouard Romain | 2638 | 5 | 5½ | Muzychuk Mariya | 2520 | |
20 | Anton Guijarro David | 2617 | 5 | 5 | Svane Rasmus | 2496 |
Besides the obvious must watch games in the top boards, some interesting duels will be Topalov-Wei Yi, Hou Yifan-Rapport and Harikrishna-Padmini Rout. WGM Padmini Rout, from India, is tearing this tournament apart. She has scored four consecutive victories, will probably obtain a GM norm even with a loss tomorrow and is currently tied for first for the female prize!
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