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Norway Chess Round 02: Caruana beats Carlsen

The second round of the Norway Chess Super-Tournament 2015 produced a solitary decisive result as Fabiano Caruana overcame the defenses of World Champion Magnus Carlsen in the latter’s favorite Berlin Ruy Lopez. This puts the World Champion in the last place with no points from the first two rounds of this 9-round event.

The rest of the games ended in draws, although they weren’t short of excitement.

After 2 rounds, as many as 5 (!) players lead the table with 1.5 points each. Indian hope Vishy Anand is on the sole second spot with 2 draws in as many games.

Round 2 Results:

Name

 Rtg Res. Name

Rtg

Grischuk

 2781 ½-½ Aronian

2780

Hammer

 2677 ½-½ Vachier-Lagrave 2723
Topalov 2798 ½-½ Nakamura

2802

Caruana

 2805 1-0 Carlsen 2876

Giri

 2773 ½-½ Anand

2804

Mayor’s Cup: Eventful start

The Mumbai Mayors Cup witnessed an eventful start with the top seeds having no problems in dispatching their lower rated opponents. As many has 18 Grand Masters and 16 International Masters are participating in this event. Five players are rated above 2600.

The middle and lower boards however saw a lot of upsets with lower seeds making the most of their chances. Unheralded youngster from Maharashtra Sammed Shete (2071) beat Bangladeshi GM Abdulla Al-Rakib (2498) while Tamil Nadu player Sa Kannan (2003) beat IM Himanshu Sharma (2420), among the most notable reverses.

Check the pairings for Round 2 here.

IASI Open: GM Sengupta joins two others in lead

Indian GM Deep Sengupta (2571) defeated GM Vladimir Onischuk (2669) to join Ukranian GM Yuriy Kuzubov (2650) and Turkish GM Baris Esen (2563) at 4.5/5.

GM Abhijeet Gupta, GM Vishnu Prasanna and GM Sundararajan Kidambi won their respective games. GM Gupta and GM Prasanna move to 4.5/5 while GM Kidambi has 3.5/5.

Check the Round 6 pairings here.

Chicago Open: IM Jeffery Xiong wins

IM Jeffery Xiong (2497) beat GM Lazaro Batista (2684) to win the Chicago Open, 2015 with a score of 7.0/9, half a point ahead of GM Gata Kamsky (2673) and six others who tied for second place with 6.5/9.

Indian IM Ashwin Jayaram, who had earlier registered a GM norm performance, settled for a draw in his last round game to finish with 6.0/9.

You may check the final standings here.

Chicago Open: Nine players tied for lead, another norm for IM Ashwin Jayaram

Nine players were tied for lead at the end of eight rounds with 6.0/8. In the eighth round, the top board witnessed a crucial encounter between Cuban GM Lazaro Batista (2684) and America GM Gata Kamsky (2673) which ended in a draw.

IM Ashwin Jayaram of India meanwhile won his round eight encounter to move to 5.5/8 to score his GM norm. He has all the required norms and just needs to cross 2500 elo rating to become a Grand Master.

See the standings here.

Sivakasi: GM Deepan Chakkravarthy wins

GM Deepan Chakkravarthy (2487) won the 1st SCS International Open, 2015 with a score of with 8.0/9. he tied for first place with IM V.A.V. Rajesh (2343) and Kunal M. (2323), but had a better tie-break.

The top seed of the event GM Murali Karthikeyan had to be content with the tenth place after scoring 7.5/9. The surprise of the event was who had a memorable tournament was Hemanth Raam (1903), holding GM R.R. Laxman (2424) to a draw to finish sixth with 7.5/9 on account of his tie-break.

View the complete standings here.

Sivakasi: Four players lead SCS International Chess Tournament

Four players: GM Murali Karthikeyan, IM P. Shyam Nikhil, GM R.R. Laxman and GM Deepan Chakkravarthy share the lead with 6.0/6 at the 1st SCS International Tournament at Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu.

Three Grandmasters and three International Masters are competing for the top honours in a field of 493 players.

Check the pairings for Round 7 here.

Zalakaros open Round 5: Four players in joint lead

After 5 rounds of the Zalakaros Open 2015, four players – GMs Efimenko, Ragger, Boruchovsky and Papp Gabor – lead the table with 4 points each. GM Efimenko joined the leaders group courtesy of his important victory over GM Vajda Levente in Round 5.

Amongst Indian results, GM Adhiban drew GM Medvegy and now, is on the joint-second position with 3.5 points. Meanwhile, the husband/wife duo of IM Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal is on 2.5/5 each. The two have been paired against each other for the 6th round of the tournament.

Full Round 5 Results:  http://www.chess-results.com/tnr164932.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=5&wi=821