Isle of Man Round six
Photos by Lennart Ootes

The playing hall

Pavel Eljanov showed that sometimes a retreat is the best form of attack

Alexey Shirov
With this smooth win against Eljanov took the sole lead with 5.5/6. Half a point behind follow three players with 5.0/6 each. One of them is Fabiano Caruana who won in round six with Black against Women's World Champion Hou Yifan. An interesting game in which both sides tried to seize the initiative by willingly giving material.

Fabiano Caruana

Hou Yifan
The Isle of Man tournament is an extremely strong open and every round a lot of interesting games are played. In the following game the young Indian Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram had a chance to play a nice positional queen sacrifice.
Top pairings and results of Round 6 (October 6, 2016)
Full results of all 68 games
Top standings after six rounds
Rk. |
SNo |
|
Name |
FED |
Rtg |
TB1 |
Rp |
1 |
5 |
GM |
Eljanov Pavel |
UKR |
2741 |
5,5 |
2929 |
2 |
1 |
GM |
Caruana Fabiano |
USA |
2813 |
5,0 |
2863 |
|
8 |
GM |
Rodshtein Maxim |
ISR |
2687 |
5,0 |
2868 |
|
9 |
GM |
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi |
IND |
2686 |
5,0 |
2797 |
5 |
2 |
GM |
So Wesley |
USA |
2794 |
4,5 |
2731 |
|
4 |
GM |
Adams Michael |
ENG |
2745 |
4,5 |
2749 |
|
10 |
GM |
Naiditsch Arkadij |
AZE |
2684 |
4,5 |
2799 |
|
11 |
GM |
Shirov Alexei |
LAT |
2679 |
4,5 |
2798 |
|
16 |
GM |
Salem A.R. Saleh |
UAE |
2650 |
4,5 |
2669 |
|
21 |
GM |
Howell David W L |
ENG |
2644 |
4,5 |
2681 |
|
22 |
GM |
Grandelius Nils |
SWE |
2642 |
4,5 |
2780 |
|
26 |
GM |
Bok Benjamin |
NED |
2594 |
4,5 |
2759 |
13 |
3 |
GM |
Nakamura Hikaru |
USA |
2787 |
4,0 |
2660 |
|
6 |
GM |
Leko Peter |
HUN |
2709 |
4,0 |
2580 |
|
12 |
GM |
Movsesian Sergei |
ARM |
2677 |
4,0 |
2693 |
|
13 |
GM |
Fressinet Laurent |
FRA |
2676 |
4,0 |
2624 |
|
14 |
GM |
Sargissian Gabriel |
ARM |
2670 |
4,0 |
2624 |
|
15 |
GM |
Melkumyan Hrant |
ARM |
2653 |
4,0 |
2528 |
|
17 |
GM |
Hou Yifan |
CHN |
2649 |
4,0 |
2687 |
|
20 |
GM |
Bachmann Axel |
PAR |
2645 |
4,0 |
2551 |
|
24 |
GM |
Van Foreest Jorden |
NED |
2615 |
4,0 |
2716 |
|
29 |
GM |
Donchenko Alexander |
GER |
2581 |
4,0 |
2508 |
|
31 |
GM |
Brunello Sabino |
ITA |
2566 |
4,0 |
2560 |
|
32 |
GM |
Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. |
IND |
2564 |
4,0 |
2469 |
|
34 |
GM |
Svane Rasmus |
GER |
2552 |
4,0 |
2513 |
|
35 |
GM |
Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan |
IND |
2536 |
4,0 |
2636 |
|
36 |
GM |
Harika Dronavalli |
IND |
2528 |
4,0 |
2646 |
|
46 |
GM |
Illingworth Max |
AUS |
2465 |
4,0 |
2567 |
|
47 |
IM |
Trent Lawrence |
ENG |
2463 |
4,0 |
2511 |
|
71 |
|
Hemant Sharma (del) |
IND |
2371 |
4,0 |
2537 |
|
74 |
IM |
Wallace John Paul |
AUS |
2355 |
4,0 |
2630 |
|
76 |
|
Balint Vilmos |
HUN |
2334 |
4,0 |
2534 |
33 |
18 |
GM |
Granda Zuniga Julio E |
PER |
2648 |
3,5 |
2528 |
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Games of rounds 1 to 6
Top Pairings of round 7

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