Merida Round 5 Results:
1 Hou YIFAN (2549) 1 0 Julio GRANDA (2609)
2 Zhang PENGXIANG (2640) ½ ½ Humpy KONERU (2603)
3 Manuel Perez CANDELARIO (2537) 0 1 Michael ADAMS (2729)
4 Fabiano CARUANA (2620) 0 1 Gabriel SARGISSIAN (2643)
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Adams is clearly in his own class.
Well what did you expect?
GM Adams(2729) is 89pts higher than the second highest rated player!!
As much as Julio doesn’t deserve the talent he was gifted with, it always hurts to see talent go to waste.