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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; Ukrainian
GM Vassily Ivanchuk, currently the world's number five; Sergey Karjakin,
former child prodigy and youngest GM of all time; top US grandmaster Hikaru
Nakamura, clear winner of this year's Wijk aan Zee tournament; Teimour Radjabov,
one of Azerbaijan's top GMs, and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, the best Romanian
player. The competition is taking place from June 11th to 22nd 2011 in Medias,
Romania. |
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Round six results
Round 6: Friday, June 17, 15:30h |
Teimour Radjabov |
½-½ |
Vassily Ivanchuk |
Hikaru Nakamura |
½-½ |
Magnus Carlsen |
Sergey Karjakin |
1-0 |
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
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Commentary by GM Dorian Rogozenco
The rest day over, the players returned to the chess boards in Medias to start
the second half of the Kings' Tournament. Nakamura-Carlsen was the first game
to finish with a draw after the repetition of moves. Nakamura's attempt to surprise
Carlsen in Ruy Lopez with the move 11.c4 didn't really pay off, as the Norwegian
quickly achieved a comfortable equality. It looked like Black can fight for
advantage, but at the press conference Carlsen recognized that he didn't feel
very well before the game and therefore he went for simplifications and forced
the draw by repetition.

The ceremonial first move in the game Nakamura-Carlsen is executed by Josu
Fernández, the Organisation Director of the International Chess Festival
“Villa de Bilbao”, which will be staging the Grand Slam of which
the Medias Kings is part

Magnus in action, watched by Adrian Marcel Piteiu, CEO of RomGAZ
The second game to finish was Radjabov-Ivanchuk. The Ukrainian played the Semi-Tarrasch
of the Queen's Gambit declined, which caught the Azerbaijani Grandmaster somewhat
unprepared. Radjabov declared at the beginning of the tournament that he can
still feel the tiredness after the Candidate matches in Kazan, therefore in
today's game when faced with a situation to take a critical decision, he decided
to avoid risks. White accepted a quiet endgame, which looked somewhat more pleasant
for Black, but which in the end Radjabov held to a draw without visible efforts.

At the start of the game Radjabov vs Ivanchuk

Top Azerbaijani GM Teimour Radjabov
The longest encounter of the sixth round was at the same time the only decisive
game of the day. In Karjakin-Nisipeanu the Romanian played the Schliemann Gambit,
which seems to become a popular opening in Kings' Tournament. On move 15 Karjakin
prepared a novelty, which put pressure on Black. After a long thought Nisipenu
sacrificed two pawns for activity of his pieces. He quickly won back one pawn,
but never recovered the second one. Black's position was always very close to
draw and at some moments Nisipeanu even missed more or less clear ways to escape.
However, being under constant pressure and in time trouble Nisipeanu was forced
to give up in the end. A hard-fought win for Sergey Karjakin, who together with
Magnus Carlsen shares the 1-2 places with four points out of six games.

A friendly exchange between Karjakin and Nisipeanu before the start of the
game

The game is symbolically started by Adrian Marcel Piteiu, CEO of RomGAZ

The hero of round six: Sergey Karjakin

Trouble with the clock: Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
All photos by Ionut
Anisca for the organisation
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Standings after six rounds

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 |
½-½ |
Hikaru Nakamura |
Vassily Ivanchuk |
0-1 |
Sergey Karjakin |
Magnus Carlsen |
1-0 |
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu |
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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 –
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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 –
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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 –
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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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