| Friday August 28 Round VII | |||
| 13:30 | Svidler – Stellwagen | ½ – ½ | |
| Nielsen – Smeets | 1 – 0 | ||
| Beliavsky – Caruana | 1 – 0 | ||
| van Wely – Nakamura | ½ – ½ | ||
| Ljubojevic – Hou Yifan | -½ – ½ | ||
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Experience taking on Rising Stars
Doesn’t look like the Red Bull’s been helpin’
Nielsen and Beliavsky won, all other games drawn.
Nakamura was supposedly in trouble against Van Wely today, but if he was, the pawn move 16. . . .e5 was to blame. If he had gone for the standard Benko gambit counterplay instead, with 16. . . .Qb6, he would have had an easy game and no worse than a draw.
SRS