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The International Arbiter Andrzej Filipovicz from Poland
The symbolic first move
After playing Vladimir Kramnik and Fabiano Caruana with Black,
Rainer Buhmann also had Black against...
...Fabiano Caruana
Fabiano Caruana avoided a theoretical duel but reached
a double-edged position with good chances to play for a win.
The top game of round six was the encounter between...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and...
... Ruslan Ponomariov. With a win Ponomariov would have caught the French grandmaster.
But right from the start Maxime Vachier-Lagrave had the game under control showed a fine display of strategy and tactics that culminated in a mating attack in the endgame.
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, who has not lost one of his last 58 games, played against Vladimir Kramnik...
... who tried hard to win this game.
The game lasted for 146 moves and Kramnik tried everything to win but in the end he could not avoid to play his sixth draw in his sixth game in Dortmund. In the seventh and final round Kramnik plays against Evgeniy Najer. Nisipeanu, who also has six draws out of six games in Dortmund, plays against Buhmann in the final round.
Evgeniy Najer...
... and Leinier Dominguez Perez (left) drew an unspectactular game.
Fabiano Caruana - Rainer Buhmann 1-0
Evgeniy Najer - Leinier Dominguez Perez 1/2-1/2
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - Ruslan Ponomariov 1-0
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu - Vladimir Kramnik 1/2-1/2
Photos: Tournament page, Georgios Souleidis
