CORUS 2010: Round 7 Results

(photo by: Nadja Woisin)


Nakamura beats Shirov, Carlsen beats Ivanchuk

Detractors had pointed out that Alexei Shirov's blistering 5.0/5 start was achieved without playing any of the tournament favourites. Today the Latvian GM encountered one, Hikaru Nakamura – and dropped the full point. Magnus Carlsen scored his third win, against Vassily Ivanchuk, who self-destructed on move eight. Nigel Short came tantalizing close to beating Vladimir Kramnik.


GROUP A - Round 7
F. Caruana - V. Anand ½-½
S. Tiviakov - P. Leko ½-½
J. Smeets - L. Dominguez ½-½
L. van Wely - S. Karjakin ½-½
N. Short - V. Kramnik ½-½
H. Nakamura - A. Shirov 1-0
M. Carlsen - V. Ivanchuk 1-0


GROUP B - Round 7
A. Giri - E. l'Ami ½-½
D. Howell - T. Nyback 1-0
A. Muzychuk - E. Sutovsky ½-½
A. Naiditsch - Ni ½-½
W. So - D. Reinderman 1-0
V. Akobian - L. Nisipeanu ½-½
P. Negi - P. Harikrishna ½-½


GROUP A - Round 7
S. Kuipers - S. Swaminathan ½-½
Z. Peng - M. Muzychuk ½-½
B. Bok - R. Swinkels 0-1
D. Vocaturo - R. Robson 1-0
S. Plukkel - A. Gupta 0-1
L. Chao - N. Grandelius 0-1
R. van Kampen - K. Lie ½-½