Tata Steel Masters, Wijk aan Zee 2018 12th round

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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Tata Steel Masters, Wijk aan Zee 2018 11th round

Mamedyarov, Carlsen and Giri lead with 7.5 points.

Results of the 11th round

Anand, Viswanathan – Hou, Yifan 1-0

So, Wesley – Jones, Gawain C B 1-0

Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar – Carlsen, Magnus ½-½

Matlakov, Maxim – Svidler, Peter ½-½

Karjakin, Sergey – Kramnik, Vladimir 1-0

Caruana, Fabiano – Giri, Anish ½-½

Adhiban, B. – Wei, Yi ½-½

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Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2018 – Masters 4th round

Nakamura leads with 4 points.

Top 10 results of the 4th round

GM Nakamura Hikaru 2781 3 1 – 0 3 GM Grandelius Nils 2647
GM Duda Jan-Krzysztof 2724 3 ½ – ½ 3 GM Gledura Benjamin 2612
GM Antipov Mikhail Al. 2588 3 ½ – ½ 3 GM Howell David W L 2682
GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2793 2½ 1 – 0 3 IM Batsiashvili Nino 2504
GM Grigoriants Sergey 2568 2½ ½ – ½ 2½ GM Aronian Levon 2797
GM Peralta Fernando 2559 2½ ½ – ½ 2½ GM Le Quang Liem 2737
GM Adams Michael 2709 2½ ½ – ½ 2½ GM Pichot Alan 2552
GM Baron Tal 2548 2½ ½ – ½ 2½ GM Rapport Richard 2700
GM Gelfand Boris 2697 2½ ½ – ½ 2½ GM Lalith Babu M R 2542
GM Sutovsky Emil 2673 2½ 1 – 0 2½ GM Muzychuk Mariya 2540

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