16 June 2012
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
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| Alexander Morozevich in Joint Lead with Vladimir Kramnik at Tal Chess Memorial after six rounds. |
The 7th Tal Chess Memorial resumed on Saturday after a day’s break. Six rounds had been played till Friday and the talk of the previous round was leader Alexander Morozevich’s loss to US Chess Champion Hikaru Nakamura.
This allowed Vladimir Kramnik – who beat Evgeny Tomashevsky – to catch up for a joint lead. Fabiano Caruana beat Luke McShane. Other games were drawn.
Round 6 standings:
1-2. Morozevich, Kramnik – 4, 3-5. Carlsen, Radjabov, Caruana – 3,5, 6. Nakamura – 3, 7-8. Grischuk, Aronian – 2,5, 9. McShane – 2, 10. Tomashevsky – 1,5
You can watch the tournament live a the official website. You can check out Nakamura’s inspiration play with Chess King.
1-2. Morozevich, Kramnik – 4, 3-5. Carlsen, Radjabov, Caruana – 3,5, 6. Nakamura – 3, 7-8. Grischuk, Aronian – 2,5, 9. McShane – 2, 10. Tomashevsky – 1,5
You can watch the tournament live a the official website. You can check out Nakamura’s inspiration play with Chess King.
