Group A
| Round 11 – Friday the 28th | |
| M. Vachier-Lagrave – V. Anand | ½-½ |
| I. Nepomniachtchi – H. Nakamura | 0-1 |
| V. Kramnik – M. Carlsen | 0-1 |
| Wang Hao – J. Smeets | |
| A. Grischuk – E. l’Ami | ½-½ |
| L. Aronian – R. Ponomariov | ½-½ |
| A. Shirov – A. Giri | ½-½ |
Group B
| Round 11 – Friday the 28th | |
| G. Sargissian – L. Fressinet | ½-½ |
| J. Hammer – L. Liem | 0-1 |
| Z. Efimenko – R. Wojtaszek | ½-½ |
| S. Ganguly – L. McShane | 0-1 |
| W. So – F. Nijboer | ½-½ |
| D. Navara – V. Tkachiev | 1-0 |
| W. Spoelman – Li Chao | 1-0 |
Group C
| Round 11 – Friday the 28th | |
| I. Nyzhnyk – B. Bok | 1-0 |
| R. van Kampen – D. Swiercz | 0-1 |
| D. Vocaturo – K. Lahno | 1-0 |
| M. Kazhgaleyev – I. Ivanisevic | ½-½ |
| J.W. de Jong – S. Siebrecht | 1-0 |
| M. Bluvshtein – M. van der Werf | |
| T. Sachdev – R. Pruijssers | ½-½ |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Naka is winning because he filtched Carlsen’s orange juice. Look at the picture!
What’s up with the boards? At the top level, I really prefer to see them playing on quality wooden boards. I love tournament / plastic sets, but there’s nothing like wood.
Andrew:
That’s just an analysis board. The games take place on wooden boards of course.
That picture is taken back stage while the players were analysing.
Note that there are no clocks on the table.
The tournament sets are wooden boards and pieces by DGT, which allow the moves to be easily transmitted.
Let’s just hope that he does not now become a paranoid anti-Semite.
Can someone please tell me what is the highest or least amount of time for a game in a tourney?
It’s about time for a crazy american chess player
Morphy
harry nelson pillsbury
Fischer
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I knew Nakamura when he was 16 or 17, and I disliked him. I have always said to people that, although he was very good at Blitz, his arrogance about his ability (eg saying he could be best in world at classical if he worked at it) would lead to him being too scared to actually work at it in case he found he wasn’t as good as he thought. So I’ve always said he would never achieve great results at the elite level. He seems to be be proving me wrong right now, and all I can say is ‘Well done, Hikaru. I misjudged you’
I didn’t misjudge him. He still has a tattoo of Nigel Short on his left buttock. When Naka becomes WC, then I’ll drink the Koolade and noodle after him.
@Codes People can change..