Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament 2011 (Monaco MNC) – day one

The first day brought us not only some incredible blunders but also very interesting games 🙂 Aronian, Grischuk, Gelfand and Gashimov lead with 2 points.

Here are the oversights:

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Reykjavik Open 2011 – round 5

There were two rounds yesterday and the five leaders lost half a point so far.

Review of round 4

Among players with 3 points only Halkias and Hess won, and WGM Sharevich who had 2.5 won against GM Fier. Here are the interesting games:

This game was particularly fighting with a basic R endgame in the end.

Results of top 10 boards

1 24 GM Hillarp Persson Tiger 3 ½ – ½ 3 GM McShane Luke J 1
2 2 GM Miroshnichenko Evgenij 3 0 – 1 3 GM Halkias Stelios 15
3 4 GM Sokolov Ivan 3 0 – 1 3 GM Hess Robert L 17
4 6 GM Kuzubov Yuriy 3 ½ – ½ 3 IM Berbatov Kiprian 32
5 34 IM Ziska Helgi Dam 3 ½ – ½ 3 GM Miton Kamil 11
6 23 GM Sveshnikov Evgeny 2½ 0 – 1 2½ GM Adly Ahmed 5
7 8 GM Hansen Sune Berg 2½ 1 – 0 2½ IM Dronavalli Harika 25
8 10 GM Baklan Vladimir 2½ 1 – 0 2½ IM Sammalvuo Tapani 31
9 62 WGM Sharevich Anna 2½ 1 – 0 2½ GM Fier Alexandr 13
10 14 GM Gupta Abhijeet 2½ 1 – 0 2½ IM Gunnarsson Jon Viktor 35

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