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Monday, July 25, 2011

Dortmund Chess R4: Kramnik leads with 3.5 points

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Hi everyone,


Former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik is turbo-charged in Dortmund, Germany and notched up his third win in four rounds by taking care (with Black) of Hikaru Nakamura. In the other games of Round 4, Anish Giri and Le Quang Liem drew their game while Ruslan Ponomariov and Georg Meier also drew their game. You can access the official website at this link




As you know, the 39th Sparkassen Chess-Meeting is taking place in Dortmund, Germany from July 21 to July 31. It is a six-player round robin tournament and a game can be declared a draw only by the arbiter or on three-fold repetition. 




Player
Title
Nat.
Born
Rating
Kramnik, Vladimir
GM
RUS
1975
2781
Nakamura, Hikaru
GM
USA
1987
2770
Ponomariov, Ruslan
GM
UKR
1983
2764
Le, Quang Liem
GM
VIE
1991
2715
Giri, Anish
GM
NED
1994
2715
Meier, Georg
GM
GER
1987
2656


Here are the Round 4 games.










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