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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 2: Sunday, June 12, 15:30h | ||
Teimour Radjabov |
½-½
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Sergey Karjakin |
Hikaru Nakamura |
1-0 |
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
Vassily Ivanchuk |
½-½
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Magnus Carlsen |
The second round saw the two leaders face each other: Ivanchuk had the white pieces against Carlsen. In order to keep queens on the board and thus have more fighting resources the Ukrainian chose to avoid the Berlin Defense, only to enter in another kind of position where there was very little White could do in order to improve. Draw on move 33 was a natural outcome.
Radjabov got a pleasant advantage on the White’s side of the Slav Defense and was pressing Karjakin’s position, but the Russian grandmaster defended well and in the end the draw was agreed in a pawn endgame on move 78.
The only decisive game of the round saw a very tense battle between Nakamura and Nisipeanu. The Romanian surprised his opponent by playing a line, which Nakamura used to play himself. Both players did their best and showed high-quality chess. The position was balanced for a long time, until the Romanian grandmaster made a few inaccuracies and then blundered in time-trouble in the endgame.
Vassily Ivanchuk analysing with Dorian Rogozenco immediately after his game
Lively analysis by Sergey Karjakin, Teimour Radjabov and Dorian Rogozenco
Hikaru and Doru – the two grandmasters discuss what has just transpired
in the hall
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