Three draws in Biel

International Chess Festival in Biel

Round Six

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

Video Recap

Still solidly in first: French #1 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

This game was quite a spectacle as the evaluation and the material balance swung wildly!

Despite the three draw results today, it is clear that the day was far from peaceful. For starters the game between Pentala Harikrishna and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave had "sacrifice" as the name of the game. Black sacrificed an exchange for activity, only for the Indian player to counter-sacrifice a piece! At the end Black had to be winning at some point in the endgame, but with time pressure looming MVL could not convert.

Radoslaw Wojtaszek didn't find any entry points in Alexander Motylev's position and the game was relatively dull.

Radoslaw Wojtaszek hasn't had the most exciting games this tournament, but his results are good

The last game of the day was an intense fight. Anish Giri came up with an excellent preparation in a sharp variation of the Scheveningen Sicilian and it was clear that Hou Yifan was in trouble. Somehow or another the World Champion mustered resources and defenses and despite her clear disadvantage she was able to make a draw; albeit a very suffered one!

The "mini-match" favored Hou Yifan 1.5-0.5

You could say Anish Giri let Hou Yifan escape

But with such resourceful defense from the World Women's Champion it is unclear where Giri could have improved

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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		Pentala Harikrishna	2726
Hou Yifan	2629		Radoslaw Wojtaszek	2733
Alexander Motylev	2698		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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