Month: December 2015

London: Anand has a lucky escape, Vishnu sole winner among the Indians

The Berlin Defense, which has made an appearance in so many of the previous Anand-Carlsen clashes, was summoned once again by the champion players. Anand got a pleasant edge out of the opening, but he misplayed it towards the 40 move mark. Carlsen was not precise as usual and let the Indian ace slip away to a draw. Anand moved to the joint second position in the crosstable behind Anish Giri of Netherlands and Maxime Vachier Lagrave of France, who beat Bulgarian Veselin Topalov.
Among the Indians competing in the FIDE Open being held simultaneously, GM Vishnu Prasanna (2514) was the sole winner among the Indians as he removed IM Sopiko Guramishvili (2368) out of his way. IM Swayams Mishra (2477), IM Sagar Shah (2441), IM Crg Krishna (2367), IM Tania Sachdev (2357), all drew with their higher rated opponents. (Swayams, though, was playing a slightly lower-rated player). All of them move to the joint second place at 3.5/4, behind the leader Gm Evgeny Postny (2670) of Israel, who has a perfect 4.0/4.
Among the untitled players from India, V. Ap Karthik (2310), who had upset French GM Roman Edouard (2627) in the second round, also held a higher rated IM to a draw.
Round 4 Monday 7 Dec, 16.00-23.00
Anish Giri
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 Levon Aronian
Magnus Carlsen
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 Michael Adams
Hikaru Nakamura
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 Viswanathan Anand
Veselin Topalov
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 Fabiano Caruana
Alexander Grischuk
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 M Vachier-Lagrave

Ugra Governor Cup Final: Bukavshin wins the tournament!

The 9th and final round of the Ugra Governor Cup 2015 saw overnight leader GM Sanan Sjugirov losing to GM Yuri Eliseev while GM Alexander Rakhmanov, another leader going into the final round, being held to a draw by GM Dmitry Bocharov. These results helped GM Ivan Bukavshin to win the tournament on tie-break after overcoming GM Aleksey Goganov in the final round of the tournament.

Bukavshin notched up a total of 6 points, winning 3 games, drawing 6 and remaining undefeated throughout the course of the event.

Despite scoring the same points as Bukavshin, Rakhmanov and Eliseev, on account of their inferior tie-break scores, had to content themselves with finishing second and third respectively.