
International Chess Festival in Biel

Round Seven
Round 07 – July 21, 2014 |
Anish Giri |
2750 |
½-½
|
Pentala Harikrishna |
2726 |
Hou Yifan |
2629 |
½-½
|
Radoslaw Wojtaszek |
2733 |
Alexander Motylev |
2698 |
0-1
|
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
2766 |
Video Recap

The start of an exciting round
Hou Yifan certainly played a fantastic game against Radoslaw Wojtaszek, finding many important and unusual resources. Tactically sound and strategically backed White's position began steam-rolling her opponent's. Unfortunately for the Chinese she started slipping in time trouble and was unable to finish off the job, only getting half a point

Hou Yifan missed a chance to move to clear second

By the skin of his teeth: Radoslaw Wojtaszek salvaged a draw
Anish Giri had a queen sacrifice in the opening (!) against Pentala Harikrishna but somehow the game ended in an early repetition.

Anish Giri wonders why his preparation left him down a queen

At -1 Anish Giri certainly wants more than this from the tournament
The miracle of the day was certainly by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. In a very, very unpleasant position his opponent simply started making bad move after bad move, turning a position that was clearly better for White to a position that was simply lost. MVL will be thanking the chess goddess today!

With a gift from Caissa MVL moves to 5.0/7

MVL leads the tournament, but the race for second is very, very tight
Daniel King shows the highlights of round 7
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Standings

Schedule
Round 01 – July 14, 2014 |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
2766 |
½-½
|
Pentala Harikrishna |
2726 |
Alexander Motylev |
2698 |
0-1
|
Radoslaw Wojtaszek |
2733 |
Hou Yifan |
2629 |
1-0
|
Anish Giri |
2750 |
Round 02 – July 15, 2014 |
Pentala Harikrishna |
2726 |
1-0
|
Anish Giri |
2750 |
Radoslaw Wojtaszek |
2733 |
½-½
|
Hou Yifan |
2629 |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
2766 |
½-½
|
Alexander Motylev |
2698 |
Round 03 – July 16, 2014 |
Alexander Motylev |
2698 |
1-0
|
Pentala Harikrishna |
2726 |
Hou Yifan |
2629 |
0-1
|
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
2766 |
Anish Giri |
2750 |
1-0
|
Radoslaw Wojtaszek |
2733 |
Round 04 –July 17, 2014 |
Hou Yifan |
2629 |
½-½
|
Pentala Harikrishna |
2726 |
Anish Giri |
2750 |
1-0
|
Alexander Motylev |
2698 |
Radoslaw Wojtaszek |
2733 |
½-½
|
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
2766 |
Round 05 – July 18, 2014 |
Pentala Harikrishna |
2726 |
½-½
|
Radoslaw Wojtaszek |
2733 |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
2766 |
1-0
|
Anish Giri |
2750 |
Alexander Motylev |
2698 |
½-½
|
Hou Yifan |
2629 |
Round 06 – July 19, 2014 |
Pentala Harikrishna |
2726 |
½-½
|
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
2766 |
Radoslaw Wojtaszek |
2733 |
½-½
|
Alexander Motylev |
2698 |
Anish Giri |
2750 |
½-½
|
Hou Yifan |
2629 |
Round 07 – July 21, 2014 |
Anish Giri |
2750 |
½-½
|
Pentala Harikrishna |
2726 |
Hou Yifan |
2629 |
½-½
|
Radoslaw Wojtaszek |
2733 |
Alexander Motylev |
2698 |
0-1
|
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
2766 |
Round 08 – July 22, 2014 |
Pentala Harikrishna |
2726 |
|
Alexander Motylev |
2698 |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
2766 |
|
Hou Yifan |
2629 |
Radoslaw Wojtaszek |
2733 |
|
Anish Giri |
2750 |
Round 09 – July 23, 2014 |
Radoslaw Wojtaszek |
2733 |
|
Pentala Harikrishna |
2726 |
Anish Giri |
2750 |
|
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
2766 |
Hou Yifan |
2629 |
|
Alexander Motylev |
2698 |
Round 10 – July 24, 2014 |
Pentala Harikrishna |
2726 |
|
Hou Yifan |
2629 |
Alexander Motylev |
2698 |
|
Anish Giri |
2750 |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
2766 |
|
Radoslaw Wojtaszek |
2733 |