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Tata Steel 2012

Nakamura marks first US win

Hikaru Nakamura after his win

The fifth round games (18 ko)

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Hikaru Nakamura won his first game of the tournament in the fifth round of the Tata Steel tournament, which brings him back to 50%. The leading pair drew on a day where the veterans Boris Gelfand and Vassily Ivanchuk both won with the black pieces. Harikrishna and Turov still retain the lead in the lower groups.

Here is the summary of the fifth round games:

Group-A:

White	Country	Rating	Result	Black	Country	Rating	Moves	Opening
Loek Van Wely	NED	2692	½-½	Levon Aronian	ARM	2805	31	Queen's Gambit 5.Bf4
Hikaru Nakamura	USA	2759	1-0	David Navara	CZE	2712	34	English Opening
Gata Kamsky	USA	2732	½-½	Fabiano Caruana	ITA	2736	84	Spanish Neo-Archangel
Vugar Gashimov	AZE	2761	0-1	Vassily Ivanchuk	UKR	2766	35	Pirc Defence
Teimour Radjabov	AZE	2773	½-½	Veselin Topalov	BUL	2770	28	Queen's Gambit 5.Bf4
Magnus Carlsen	NOR	2835	½-½	Anish Giri	NED	2714	64	King's Indian Smyslov
Sergey Karjakin	RUS	2769	0-1	Boris Gelfand	ISR	2739	44	Sicilian Najdorf

The points tally:

Seed	Name	Age	FED	Elo	World rank	Points
1	Magnus Carlsen	21	NOR	2835	1	3.5
2	Levon Aronian	29	ARM	2805	2	3.5
3	Teimour Radjabov	24	AZE	2773	5	3
4	Veselin Topalov	36	BUL	2770	6	2.5
5	Sergey Karjakin	22	RUS	2769	7	2
6	Vassily Ivanchuk	42	UKR	2766	8	3
7	Vugar Gashimov	25	AZE	2761	10	1.5
8	Hikaru Nakamura	24	USA	2759	12	2.5
9	Boris Gelfand	43	ISR	2739	16	2.5
10	Fabiano Caruana	19	ITA	2736	17	3
11	Gata Kamsky	37	USA	2732	20	2
12	Anish Giri	17	NED	2714	28	2.5
13	David Navara	26	CZE	2712	30	1
14	Loek Van Wely	39	NED	2692	54	2.5

The top two seeds are half-a-point ahead of three players.

Group-B:

White	Country	Rating	Result	Black	Country	Rating
Harika Dronavalli	IND	2516	0-1	Lazaro Bruzon	CUB	2691
Viktorija Cmilyte	LTU	2503	½-½	Dimitri Reinderman	NED	2581
Erwin L'Ami	NED	2606	½-½	Pentala Harikrishna	IND	2665
Jan Timman	NED	2568	1-0	Sipke Ernst	NED	2606
Vladimir Potkin	RUS	2684	½-½	Daniele Vocaturo	ITA	2545
Sergei Tiviakov	NED	2677	½-½	Illya Nyzhnyk	UKR	2568
Kateryna Lahno	UKR	2557	0-1	Alexander Motylev	RUS	2677

The points so far:

Rk	Name	Age	FED	Elo	World rank	Points
1	Lazaro Bruzon Batista	29	CUB	2691	55	2.5
2	Vladimir Potkin	29	RUS	2684	65	2
3	Sergei Tiviakov	38	NED	2677	70	2.5
4	Alexander Motylev	32	RUS	2677	72	3.5
5	Pentala Harikrishna	25	IND	2665	82	4
6	Sipke Ernst	33	NED	2606	-	1.5
7	Erwin L'Ami	26	NED	2596	-	3
8	Dimitri Reinderman	39	NED	2581	-	2.5
9	Jan Timman	60!	NED	2571	-	3
10	Illya Nyzhnyk	15	UKR	2568	-	2.5
11	Kateryna Lahno	22	UKR	2557	5w	2
12	Daniele Vocaturo	22	ITA	2545	-	2.5
13	Dronavalli Harika	21	IND	2516	11w	1.5
14	Viktorija Cmilyte	28	LTU	2503	16w	2

Alexander Motylev is now only half-a-point behind the leader Pentala Harikrishna.

Group-C:

White	Country	Rating	Result	Black	Country	Rating
Daan Brandenburg	NED	2527	½-½	Tania Sachdev	IND	2411
Baskaran Adhiban	IND	2561	½-½	Matthew Sadler	ENG	2660
Etienne Goudriaan	NED	2279	0-1	Sahaj Grover	IND	2532
Elina Danielian	ARM	2490	0-1	Hans Tikkanen	SWE	2549
Maxim Turov	RUS	2645	1-0	Lars Ootes	NED	2326
Lisa Schut	NED	2290	0-1	Anne Haast	NED	2290
Elisabeth Paehtz	GER	2454	½-½	Pieter Hopman	NED	2342

The points so far:

Rk	Name	Title	Age	FED	Elo	World rank	Points
1	Matthew Sadler	GM	37	ENG	2660	88	3
2	Maxim Turov	GM	32	RUS	2645	-	5
3	Baskaran Adhiban	GM	19	IND	2561	-	3.5
4	Hans Tikkanen	GM	26	SWE	2549	-	4
5	Sahaj Grover	IM	16	IND	2532	-	3
6	Daan Brandenburg	GM	24	NED	2527	-	2.5
7	Elina Danielian	GM	33	ARM	2490	20w	1
8	Elisabeth Paehtz	IM	27	GER	2454	34w	2
9	Sachdev Tania	IM	25	IND	2411	60w	2
10	Pieter Hopman		39	NED	2342	-	1
11	Lars Ootes		20	NED	2326	-	2
12	Lisa Schut	WIM	17	NED	2290	-	2.5
13	Anne Haast	WIM	18	NED	2290	-	1
14	Etienne Goudriaan	FM	21	NED	2279	-	2.5

Maxim Turov maintains his perfect score and is one point ahead of Hans Tikkanen.

For more information and live games go to: http://www.tatasteelchess.com/

For the live games, it's worth noting that play begins at 13.30 local time:

13.30 Paris and Madrid

12.30 London

07.30 New York

04.30 Los Angeles

16.30 Moscow

18.00 Mumbai

23.30 Sydney

Published: 20/01/2012 09:53, modified: 29/01/2012 19:23

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