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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 four results
Round 4: Tuesday, June 14, 15:30h |
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
½-½ |
Teimour Radjabov |
Sergey Karjakin |
½-½ |
Magnus Carlsen |
Hikaru Nakamura |
½-½ |
Vassily Ivanchuk |
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Commentary by GM Dorian Rogozenco
The fourth round of the Kings' Tournament brought three draws: for the first
time there were no decisive games. The reason for it partly became clear at
the press conference, where both Karjakin and Radjabov admitted that they are
still feeling the tiredness after being in Kazan, where the Candidates matches
were played (Radjabov as a player, Karjakin as Kramnik's second).

Today Karjakin achieved nothing against Carlsen's Caro-Kann. Moreover, at some
point the Russian had to forget about his initial ambitions and play for a draw
in an endgame with a pawn down. He succeeded it thanks to the activity of his
pieces.

Former boy
prodigy and youngest GM in history, Sergey Karjakin

Former boy prodigy
and third youngest GM in history, Magnus Carlsen

Teimour Radjabov against Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu implemented the bold Schliemann
Gambit – a sharp opening variation, which the Azerbaijani GM plays from
time to time. He had no problems to achieve equality with black and could even
try to fight for advantage at some point.
Nakamura-Ivanchuk saw the Nimzo-Indian, where the Ukrainian chose a rare variation
with Black, allowing Nakamura to achieve a promising position. However, with
a timely pawn sac Ivanchuk traded queens and entered a rook endgame which he
led very confidently to a draw.

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Schedule and results
Round 1: Saturday, June 11, 15:30h |
Vassily Ivanchuk |
1-0 |
Teimour Radjabov |
Magnus Carlsen |
1-0 |
Hikaru Nakamura |
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
½-½ |
Sergey Karjakin |
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Round 2: Sunday, June 12, 15:30h |
Teimour Radjabov |
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Sergey Karjakin |
Hikaru Nakamura |
1-0 |
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
Vassily Ivanchuk |
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Magnus Carlsen |
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Round 3: Monday, June 13, 15:30h |
Magnus Carlsen |
½-½ |
Teimour Radjabov |
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
1-0 |
Vassily Ivanchuk |
Sergey Karjakin |
½-½ |
Hikaru Nakamura |
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Round 4: Tuesday, June 14, 15:30h |
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
½-½ |
Teimour Radjabov |
Sergey Karjakin |
½-½ |
Magnus Carlsen |
Hikaru Nakamura |
½-½ |
Vassily Ivanchuk |
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Round 5: Wednesday, June 15, 15:30h |
Teimour Radjabov |
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Hikaru Nakamura |
Vassily Ivanchuk |
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Sergey Karjakin |
Magnus Carlsen |
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Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
Games – Report |
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Round 6: Friday, June 17, 15:30h |
Teimour Radjabov |
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Vassily Ivanchuk |
Hikaru Nakamura |
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Magnus Carlsen |
Sergey Karjakin |
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Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
Games – Report |
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Round 7: Saturday, June 18, 15:30h |
Sergey Karjakin |
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Teimour Radjabov |
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
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Hikaru Nakamura |
Magnus Carlsen |
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Vassily Ivanchuk |
Games – Report |
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Round 8: Sunday, June 19, 15:30h |
Teimour Radjabov |
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Magnus Carlsen |
Vassily Ivanchuk |
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Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
Hikaru Nakamura |
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Sergey Karjakin |
Games – Report |
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Round 9: Monday, June 20, 15:30h |
Hikaru Nakamura |
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Teimour Radjabov |
Sergey Karjakin |
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Vassily Ivanchuk |
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
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Magnus Carlsen |
Games – Report |
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Round 10: Tuesday, June 21, 13:30h |
Teimour Radjabov |
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Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
Magnus Carlsen |
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Sergey Karjakin |
Vassily Ivanchuk |
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Hikaru Nakamura |
Games – Report |
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