GM Alex Yermolinsky video recap
Pos. | Points | Player | Rating |
---|---|---|---|
1-3 | 1.0 | Magnus Carlsen | 2851 |
Vladimir Kramnik | 2801 | ||
Anish Giri | 2790 | ||
4-7 | 0.5 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2788 |
Levon Aronian | 2784 | ||
Veselin Topalov | 2754 | ||
Li Chao | 2755 | ||
8-5 | 0.0 | Pavel Eljanov | 2765 |
Pentala Harikrishna | 2763 | ||
Nils Grandelius | 2649 |
There are two great news about Round 1 of the Altibox Norway chess tournament: Anish Giri interrupted a fastidious streak of draws after the Candidates', winning against Eljanov; Magnus Carlsen dominated Harikrishna and won the first round of a tournament after over two years. With Kramnik beating the qualified Swedish GM Grandelius, all the top three guys won with white today, in a rather spectacular round. Carlsen's game went down to a crazy time-scramble, and the world champion showed once again that he can think really fast.
MVL wasn't able to get a lot out of the opening, and LI Chao found a nice tactic to enter an opposite-color bishop endgame, which he held comfortably.
Aronian found himself in trouble; for a while Topalov had the upper hand in the game, but then the Bulgarian ace failed to find the determination to bring home the full point.
An exciting first round of a tournament that promises to be really interesting!
Today Radja is the winner of the GTR contest. He was able to guess 4 out of 5 results. Well done!
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