It was a fighting battle but Carlsen and Karjakin ended their bout in a draw. In the mean time, Ivanchuk knocked out Nakamura to salvage some rating points and pride.
Final round results
| GM | Radjabov Teimour | 2744 | 1/2 | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | 2662 |
| GM | Carlsen Magnus | 2815 | 1/2 | GM | Karjakin Sergey | 2776 |
| GM | Ivanchuk Vassily | 2776 | 1-0 | GM | Nakamura Hikaru | 2774 |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Ivanchuk was lucky. Nakamura is higher rated and is better.
I’m really glad Chucky won today and ironed out his terrible performance from yesterday.
To the previous poster: You always make your own luck in chess. By denigrating Ivanchuks win you are denigrating your golden boy Nakamura. And by flooding this blog with your constant fanboy trollposts you are not making a fool out of Nakamuras opponents but only of yourself.
“And by flooding this blog with your constant fanboy trollposts you are not making a fool out of Nakamuras opponents but only of yourself.”
Thank you! Finally someone says this. One thing: I don’t think he’s making a fool out of Nakamura’s opponents, if anything he’s just making a fool out of Nakamura. The same with the writer of that other article Susan posted making all types of apologies for Nakamura and saying he was “disheartened” by his tournament performance so far and that was his excuse, but of course Chucky doesn’t get the same respect.
According to the ratings, Ivanchuk is rated higher than Nakamura. I assume that the troll wants us to fall into his trap of saying this and then he would retort something about live ratings or how the ratings will change or some nonsense like that. Well don’t bother.
Did you even look at the game? If you knew anything about chess you’d realize that that game was not luck. Look at the increasing computer evaluations of the game, how Ivanchuk ground down Nakamura bit by bit and Nakamura didn’t know **** about what was going on. Admit it, you just said “lucky” because it was Nakamura.