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It might seem rude to describe a player’s win as ‘lucky’, but how else can one
describe a situation the engines themselves evaluate as dead won?
The game had been an excellent effort by the Russian, until this position arrived in which he was objectively a bit worse. The young Chinese payer decided to go kamikaze and sacrificed a knight, however it was a bad move, and Nepo was doing a perfect job of refuting it.
A tough loss
To be honest, Ian had been having a bad event in any case, starting with two losses, but he had to feel that with this sort of loss, the stars were aligning against him. In round six, Pavel Eljanov played a good game and beat him, to reach parity.
Lázaro Brúzon in action
In the meantime, what goes around comes around, and after a very promising position versus Dmitry Andreikin, it was Yu’s turn to suffer as he lost control of it and went down in the endgame.
If the first four rounds saw no fewer than six of the ten players level with 2.5/4 with nary a leader in sight, two more rounds changed the landscape of the Premier tournament as Vitaly Kunin, residing in Germany, broke away from the pack with two wins to take sole first with 4.5/6
Vitaly Kunin has taken sole lead with 4.5/6 and a 2760 performance
Standings after six rounds
Photos by Miguel E. Gómez Masjuán
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