Miraculous MVL

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

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