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Carlsen champion on tie-break
 
Youthful rivals
 All the games from the 2011 event (23 ko)
 
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A draw in the last round left Sergey Karjakin and Magnus Carlsen in equal first. The Norwegian retained the title on tie-break. Vassily Ivanchuk managed to squeeze a win out of the Exchange Slav against Hikaru Nakamura in a controlled positional game.

In the tenth round, the Carlsen-Karjakin battle was of course the main focus of people's attention. Sergey Karjakin simplified and managed to keep his position active, indeed it was Carlsen who had to bail out with a repetition.

The Exchange Slav sometimes has a drawish reputation, but can be a dangerous weapon when the white player is able to keep a pull and Black isn't able to obtain any counterplay. Ivanchuk's win is a fine example of White squeezing out a win, due in a large part to the Ukrainian's fine technique.

Teimour Radjabov faced the Caro-Kann, but the game didn't stay solid for long. Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu sacrificed a pawn to get his king into safety and then switched his pieces over towards Radjabov's king. He then gave up the exchange to deliver perpetual check.

White Black Result Moves ECO Opening
Teimour Radjabov Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu ½-½ 34 B18 Caro-Kann Classical
Magnus Carlsen Sergey Karjakin ½-½ 30 E43 Nimzoindian Defence
Vassily Ivanchuk Hikaru Nakamura 1-0 60 D14 Slav Exchange


The final table was as follows.

Standing  Name (World Ranking) Country Rating Age C C K K Na Na R R Ni Ni I I Score
1= Magnus Carlsen (2) NOR 2815 20 * * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½
1= Sergey Karjakin (6) RUS 2776 21 ½ ½ * * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 6 ½
3= Hikaru Nakamura (8)  USA 2774 23 ½ 0 ½  ½  *  *  ½ ½ 1 ½  ½
3= Teimour Radjabov (13) AZE 2744 24 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * * ½ ½  ½ 0 
5= L-D Nisipeanu (81) ROU 2659 34 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ *  * 1 ½ 4
5= Vassily Ivanchuk (5)  UKR 2776 42 ½ 0 0 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½  0  *  * 4

The earlier rounds were as follows.

Round 1: White Black Result Moves ECO Opening
Magnus Carlsen Hikaru Nakamura 1-0 38 D31 Semi-Slav Defence
Vassily Ivanchuk Teimour Radjabov 1-0 35 E73 King's Indian Averbakh
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu Sergey Karjakin ½-½ 20 E54

Nimzo-Indian Defence

Nakamura hit back in the second round.

Round 2: White Black Result Moves ECO Opening
Hikaru Nakamura Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu 1-0 86 C96 Spanish Keres
Vassily Ivanchuk Magnus Carlsen ½-½ 33 C84 Spanish with d3
Teimour Radjabov Sergey Karjakin ½-½ 90 D12 Slav Defence

In the third round, only the bottom seed Nisipeanu won.

Round 3: White Black Result Moves ECO Opening
Magnus Carlsen  Teimour Radjabov ½-½ 37 D37 Queen's Gambit Declined (Bf4)
Sergey Karjakin  Hikaru Nakamura ½-½  31 B90 Sicilian Najdorf (Be3)
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu Vassily Ivanchuk 1-0 54 C67

Spanish Berlin

Only draws in the fourth round.

Round 4: White

Black Result Moves ECO Opening
Sergey Karjakin Magnus Carlsen ½-½ 35 B12 Caro Kann Advanced
Hikaru Nakamura Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½ 49 E40 Nimzo-Indian Rubinstein
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu Teimour Radjabov ½-½ 31 C63 Spanish Schliemann 

Before the rest day the two youngest players were victorious.

Round 5: White

Black Result Moves ECO Opening
Magnus Carlsen Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu 1-0 31 D27 Queen's Gambit Accepted
Teimour Radjabov Hikaru Nakamura ½-½ 31 B94 Sicilian Najdorf (6.Bg5)
Vassily Ivanchuk Sergey Karjakin 0-1 37 C53 Giuoco Piano 

Karjakin won again in round six.

Round 6: White Black Result Moves ECO Opening
Sergey Karjakin Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu 1-0 66 C63 Spanish Schliemann
Teimour Radjabov Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½ 45 D41 Queen's Gambit Semi-Tarrasch
Hikaru Nakamura Magnus Carlsen ½-½ 34 C95 Spanish Breyer 

Round seven was another good day for Carlsen.

Round 7: White Black Result Moves ECO Opening
Sergey Karjakin Teimour Radjabov ½-½ 30 C63 Spanish Schliemann
Magnus Carlsen Vassily Ivanchuk 1-0 72 D38 Queen's Gambit Ragozin
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu Hikaru Nakamura ½-½ 31 B92 Sicilian Najdorf (Be2) 

The eighth round was the second one with all draws.

Round 8: White Black Result Moves ECO Opening
Teimour Radjabov Magnus Carlsen ½-½ 29 D37 Queen's Gambit (with Bf4)
Vassily Ivanchuk Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu ½-½ 24 B41 Sicilian Kan (by transposition)
Hikaru Nakamura Sergey Karjakin ½-½ 47 E12 Queen's Indian Defence

Ivanchuk had a bad day in the ninth round.

Round 9: White Black Result Moves ECO Opening
Hikaru Nakamura Teimour Radjabov ½-½ 46 B32 Sicilian Kalashnikov
Sergey Karjakin Vassily Ivanchuk 1-0 22 B09 Pirc defence (Austrian)
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu Magnus Carlsen ½-½ 32 C95 Spanish Breyer

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Published: 21/06/2011 21:14



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