Tal Memorial Chess: Aronian, Mamedyarov lead after six rounds

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Leading with Levon Aronian: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

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Hello Everyone,

Round six at the Tal Memorial saw all draws and one win. It was Shakhriyar Mamedyarov who won and caught up with Levon Aronian in the lead. Three more rounds are to be played. He beat Eljanov in a much-talked about game later.

The traditional Tal Memorial tournament is taking place from November 4-14 in the GUM Exhibition Hall on Red Square, Moscow. Aronian (ARM, 2801), Kramnik (RUS, 2791), Alexander Grischuk (RUS 2771), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE, 2763), Sergey Karjakin (RUS, 2760), Pavel Eljanov (UKR, 2742), Boris Gelfand (ISR, 2741), Hikaru Nakamura (USA, 2741), Alexei Shirov (ESP, 2735) and Wang Hao (CHN, 2727) are playing in the event.

Hope you're following the excellent video telecast with live commentary at the official website of www.russiachess.org.

Here is the nice Mamedyarov-Eljanov game that you can run the moves through our pgnplayer or watch in flash below.

PGN: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Qc2 dxc4 5. Qxc4 Bf5 6. g3 e6 7. Bg2 Nbd7 8. O-O Be7 9. e3 O-O 10. Rd1 e5 11. Nc3 Qc7 12. h3 Bg6 13. dxe5 Nxe5 14. Nxe5 Qxe5 15. e4 Qe6 16. Qxe6 fxe6 17. Be3 Rfd8 18. Rxd8+ Bxd8 19. Rd1 Ba5 20. f3 e5 21. Na4 Bf7 22. Nc5 b6 23. Na6 c5 24. Bf1 Rc8 25. h4 Be6 26. b3 Bc3 27. Rd6 Bd7 28. Bg5 Rc6 29. Bc4+ Kf8 30. Rxc6 Bxc6 31. Nc7 h6 32. Bc1 Ke7 33. Kg2 Bd4 34. a4 a5 35. g4 Kd7 36. Ne6 Ne8 37. h5 Kd6 38. g5 hxg5 39. Nxg7 Nxg7 40. h6 Nh5 41. h7 Nf4+ 42. Kg3 Ng6 43. Kg4 Be8 44. Bxg5 Nh8 45. Bf6 Ng6 46. Kf5 Be3 47. h8=Q Nxh8 48. Bxe5+ Ke7 49. Bf6+ 1-0

Standings after 6 rounds

1. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2801 4

2. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2763 4

3. Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2760 3½

4. Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2771 3½

5. Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2741 3½

6. Wang Hao g CHN 2727 3½

7. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2791 3

8. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2741 2

9. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2735 1½

10. Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2742 1½

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