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Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2018 – Masters 6th round

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Nakamura leads with 5.5 points.

Top 10 results of the 6th round

GM Nakamura Hikaru 2781 5 ½ – ½ 4½ GM Howell David W L 2682
GM Antipov Mikhail Al. 2588 4½ ½ – ½ 4 GM Harikrishna P. 2745
GM Gupta Abhijeet 2610 4 ½ – ½ 4 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2793
GM Gledura Benjamin 2612 4 ½ – ½ 4 GM Navara David 2749
GM Vitiugov Nikita 2732 4 ½ – ½ 4 GM Vocaturo Daniele 2609
GM Sandipan Chanda 2579 4 1 – 0 4 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2726
GM Narayanan S. L. 2573 4 0 – 1 4 GM Wang Hao 2711
Henderson De La Fuente Lance 2429 4 ½ – ½ 4 GM Rapport Richard 2700
GM Cheparinov Ivan 2699 4 ½ – ½ 4 GM Ju Wenjun 2572
GM Dubov Daniil 2694 4 ½ – ½ 4 GM Moussard Jules 2571

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Tata Steel Masters, Wijk aan Zee 2018 13th round

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Carlsen and Giri shared 1st-2nd places with 9 points but Carlsen went on to win a blitz tie-break with 1.5-0.5.

Results of the 13th round

So, Wesley – Hou, Yifan 1-0

Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar – Anand, Viswanathan ½-½

Matlakov, Maxim – Jones, Gawain C B ½-½

Karjakin, Sergey – Carlsen, Magnus ½-½

Caruana, Fabiano – Svidler, Peter ½-½

Adhiban, B. – Kramnik, Vladimir 0-1

Wei, Yi – Giri, Anish ½-½

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Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2018 – Masters 5th round

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Nakamura leads with 5 points.

Top 10 results of the 5th round

GM Duda Jan-Krzysztof 2724 3½ 0 – 1 4 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2781
GM Gledura Benjamin 2612 3½ ½ – ½ 3½ GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2793
GM Howell David W L 2682 3½ 1 – 0 3½ GM Svane Rasmus 2595
GM Sutovsky Emil 2673 3½ 0 – 1 3½ GM Antipov Mikhail Al. 2588
GM Moussard Jules 2571 3½ ½ – ½ 3½ GM Saric Ivan 2664
GM Navara David 2749 3 1 – 0 3½ FM Esipenko Andrey 2571
GM Aronian Levon 2797 3 ½ – ½ 3 GM Huzman Alexander 2561
GM Harikrishna P. 2745 3 1 – 0 3 GM Grigoriants Sergey 2568
GM Le Quang Liem 2737 3 ½ – ½ 3 GM Deac Bogdan-Daniel 2549
GM Peralta Fernando 2559 3 0 – 1 3 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2732

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Tata Steel Masters, Wijk aan Zee 2018 12th round

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Giri and Carlsen lead with 8.5 points.

Results of the 12th round

Hou, Yifan – Wei, Yi ½-½

Giri, Anish – Adhiban, B. 1-0

Kramnik, Vladimir – Caruana, Fabiano 1-0

Svidler, Peter – Karjakin, Sergey ½-½

Carlsen, Magnus – Matlakov, Maxim 1-0

Jones, Gawain C B – Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar ½-½

Anand, Viswanathan – So, Wesley ½-½

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