A very strong chess tournament has begun in Medias, Rumania. This tournament involves the following players:
GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Sergey Karjakin, GM Vassily Ivanchuk, GM Hikaru Nakamura, GM Teimour Radjabov and GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. These are the results from round one of the tournament:
| Round 1 (June 11, 2011) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlsen, Magnus | - Nakamura, Hikaru | 1-0 | 38 | D31 | Semi-Slav Defence | |
| Ivanchuk, Vassily | - Radjabov, Teimour | 1-0 | 35 | E73 | King's Indian Averbakh | |
| Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | - Karjakin, Sergey | ½-½ | 20 | E54 | Nimzo Indian | |
These results mean the following standings exist after one round of play:
1st-2nd: Carlsen and Ivanchuk: 1 point each
3rd-4th:Nisipeanu and Karjakin: 1/2 point each
5th-6th: Nakamura and Radjabov: 0 points each.
I have analyzed the game between Ivanchuk and Radjabov from round one and it will be my next blog post using Chessviewer Deluxe. Enjoy! I used the programs Deep Hiarcs 13.2 and Deep Junior 12.5 as well as Chessbase 11 and Chessbase Megadatabase 2011 to help me analyze the game. You can play through all of the moves from these 3 games by going to Nikolai Pilafov's blog:
http://chesstuff.blogspot.com/2011/06/kings-tournament-2011-live-games.html
