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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Biel Young Masters Chess: Caruana beats So, takes lead


Parimarjan Negi: Steadies after a difficult start

Hello Everyone!

Talented young Grandmaster Wesley So ended up with his first loss at the 43rd Biel International Young Grandmasters Chess Tournament at the hands of Italian youngster GM Fabiano Caruana. So lost a 49-move Slav battle with Black and the lead in the tournament.

Caruana leads while So is now tied for the second place with GM Evgeny Tomashevsky, GM Dmitry Andreikin of Russia and GM Maxim Rodshtein with 3 points each. Caruana leads with 3.5/5.

In the other matches, Rodshtein beat GM Anish Giri of the Netherlands, Tomashevsky drew with GM David Howell of England, GM Parimarjan Negi of India drew with GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son of Vietnam and Andrekin drew with GM Maxime Vachier-Lagreve of France.


Results of Round 5
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David Howell-Evgeny Tomashevsky ½ - ½
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave-Dmitry Andreikin ½ - ½
Maxim Rodshtein-Anish Giri 1 - 0
Parimarjan Negi-Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son ½ - ½
Fabiano Caruana- Wesley So 1 - 0

Standings after Round 5
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1. Fabiano Caruana (ITA, 2697) 3.5
2. Evgeny Tomashevsky (RUS, 2708) 3.0
3. Wesley So (PHI, 2674) 3.0
4. Dmitry Andreikin (RUS, 2650) 3.0
5. Maxim Rodshtein (ISR, 2609) 3.0
6. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA, 2723) 2.5
7. Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (VIE, 2617) 2.5
8. Anish Giri (NED, 2672) 2.0
9. David Howell (ENG, 2616) 1.5
10. Parimarjan Negi (IND, 2615) 1.0

You can use the pgnplayer for this Caruana-So game or check it in the flashplayer below. And, here is the official website.

PGN: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Qc2 Bd6 7. Bd3 O-O 8. O-O dxc4 9. Bxc4 a6 10. Ng5 c5 11. Nce4 Qc7 12. Nxd6 Qxd6 13. Bd3 h6 14. Nh7 Ng4 15. g3 Rd8 16. h3 cxd4 17. exd4 Ngf6 18. Bf4 Qe7 19. Nxf6+ Nxf6 20. Rfe1 b5 21. Bc7 Rd7 22. Qc6 Ra7 23. Bb6 Bb7 24. Qc5 Ra8 25. Qxe7 Rxe7 26. a4 Nd7 27. Ba5 bxa4 28. Rxa4 Nb8 29. Bb6 Bc6 30. Rb4 a5 31. Bxa5 Rea7 32. Bb6 Ra1 33. Rf1 Rxf1+ 34. Kxf1 Bf3 35. Ke1 Nc6 36. Rb5 Ne7 37. Kd2 Bc6 38. Ra5 Rb8 39. Bc5 Rxb2+ 40. Kc3 Rxf2 41. Bxe7 Rf3 42. Kd2 Rxg3 43. Rc5 Bd7 44. Rc7 Be8 45. Rc8 f6 46. Bd6 Rg2+ 47. Ke3 Kf7 48. Bh7 e5 49. d5 1-0




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1 comment:

  1. Nadez Kosintseva is tied for first with 5 other players after six rounds in the Masters tournament,all of these players have 5/6! Nadez plays on board one in round 7, she has the black pieces against GM Riazantsev.http://bielchessfestival.ch/en/master-tournament

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