Cuban Chess GM Remains Undefeated in Wijk aan Zee
HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 25 (acn)
Cuban GM Leinier Dominguez drew his match against host Loek van Wely, thus remaining undefeated along other four players at the Grand Slam underway in the Dutch city of Wijk aan Zee.
The Cuban now has 4.5 points, resulting from 7 draws and a win, wich places him tied in the 6-8 position. This last game he agreed to the draw after 45 moves of a Sicilian Defense, Najdorf variant, according to www.chesscenter.com Spaniard Alexei Shirov leads the tournament after tying with Norweigian Magnus Carlsen after only 30 moves of a Sicilian Defense, and now accumulates 6 points, more than any of the other 13 GMs participating in this Grand Slam.
It is precisely the Wonderboy Carlsen his closest rival with 5.5 units, along Russian Vladimir Krammik who defeated American Hikaru Nakamura.
Meanwhile, defending champ Russian Sergey Karjakin beat English Nigel Short after 61 moves of a Spaniard Opening, while Hungarian Peter Leko added another point thanks to his victory over Dutch jan Smeets in 45 moves of a Petroff Defense.
The standing positions have Shirov in the top place followed by Carlsen and Krammik. After them Nakamura has 5 points and has a half unit advantage over the group made of Karjakin-Leinier-Leko-Ivanchuk, all of them with 4.5.World champion Anand accumulates 4 points for the ninth position, ahead of Caruana (3,5), Tiviakov and Short (2,5), Van Wely (2) and Smeets (1,5).
Source: http://www.ain.cubaweb.cu
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