(Photo taken from the official site of the event)
There have been two decisive games yesterday but all games were really interesting with various missed chances.
Round 6 on 2013/04/24 at 14:00
GM Kasimdzhanov Rustam 2709 0 – 1 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2767
GM Radjabov Teimour 2793 ½ – ½ GM Topalov Veselin 2771
GM Ponomariov Ruslan 2733 1 – 0 GM Kamsky Gata 2741
GM Morozevich Alexander 2758 ½ – ½ GM Leko Peter 2744
GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2766 ½ – ½ GM Giri Anish 2727
GM Caruana Fabiano 2772 ½ – ½ GM Karjakin Sergey 2786
Ponomariov-Kamsky transformed into a Nimzo-Indian with Black making a novelty on move 15. White looked a little better due to space advantage in the center and queenside throughout the middlegame. He could have pushed …d5 even on move 27 and get an attack but even on 29th it was very strong and he immediately became much better. Once Black got pinned on the e-file, position became hopeless…
Interesting choice of move order was played in Kasimdzhanov-Nakamura. White had a more pleasant position in the opening and middlegame. The game became quite messy when Black castled long and perhaps white should have attacked with a pawn sacrifice – 19.b5 and then 20.a4 to try to get to the King first. The idea of a R sac on d6 was interesting but didn’t work although Black pieces were very passive.
Pairings of today’s round
GM Karjakin Sergey 2786 – GM Kasimdzhanov Rustam 2709
GM Giri Anish 2727 – GM Caruana Fabiano 2772
GM Leko Peter 2744 – GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2766
GM Kamsky Gata 2741 – GM Morozevich Alexander 2758
GM Topalov Veselin 2771 – GM Ponomariov Ruslan 2733
GM Nakamura Hikaru 2767 – GM Radjabov Teimour 2793