“Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find truth” Heraclitus
Report by Martha Fierro
Before the last round everybody could have won, four players were leading the tournament. The expected game between Giri and Caruana (who are the first and the second player in the U20 ranking) ended in draw. The Dutch played a very solid English and when it was time to draw, white had some advantage. but he secures first place..
Nakamura chooses a Berlin variation of the Spanish, perhaps with the aim of playing solid against the “re-born” Ivanchuk. Vassily coherent with his very particular personality plays very good and his goal is to win. Maybe his desire of revenge has won against his pessimism.
It seems that Morozevich, facing the last player in the ranking Vitiugov, can draw and win the tournament thanks to the tie break. The twist arrives at the 40th move, black moves Ba4 with just a second on the clock, but this isn’t the right move and Morozevich and in a very tough endgame with some possibilities of a e draw the Russian makes a mistake and finally Vitiugov wins his second game in the tournament.
In this way the Dutch player Anish Giri, the youngest player in this tournament wins the 54th edition of Reggio Emilia’s tournament, one of the most exciting edition in the entire chess history.
In the female tournament the round finishes with the quite foreseeable win of the Georgian player Sopiko Guramishvili, after she drew against Anna Sharevic.
Well done for Marina who beating Maria De Rosa gets 6,5 points and the third place on the podium.
Marianna ends the tournament loosing against Iva Videnova, who improves her final score
Anish Giri, made history in Reggio by being the youngest player who has ever won Reggio Emilia with 17 years old and has obtained a whole new record after 54 editions.
Nakamura just wanted to help Giri by giving him some confidence.
That`s why he let Chucky beat him too (and Carlsen all the time)
The truth….always wins.
That explains why Naka looked so helpless.
I don’t know about you but I get extremely tired of reading the same ‘tired’ comments by a lazy poster. I come to a chess site to read thoughtful comments and instead, after every loss (or perhaps wins), someone comes on here and posts, what he must feel, is funny. He makes Nakamura looks even worse.
Goodness, I wonder what I’m doing here.
I don’t know about you, but I can be sensitive to how I spend my time and these comments will sure atrophy my neuronal cells. The comments are dumb, they lack humor, they are extremely dry. And I’m sure the majority here agrees.
Not a good way to start the new year by this anonymous poster. Normally, I quickly close the browser but I figured I’d give my two cents.
You`re right, it sure is getting boring reading about Nakamura all the time!!!
Dry and humor aren’t opposites.
And one can spend quite some words for someone who is doubting every useful timespan in life.
I guess my advice is better read real literature and don’t try to value internet comments. My prediction would be you will be frustrated on almost every site you visit.