First to finish was the Harikrisna v Kamsky game. Pentala played the rare 6. Bd2 in an a6 slav (D15), which didn't seem to faze Kamsky at first. However, he spent 15 minutes on 7. ... dxc4 and a further 30 minutes on 10. ... Nd7. However, after Kamsky blitzed out a few more moves, the peace was nonetheless signed on move 15.
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Ivanchuk ground down the hapless Sutovsky in a marathon game. Sutovsky never seemed to get enough compensation for a pawn shed in the opening (a Gruenfeld with 4.Bg5 D80) and was forced to shed another pawn and then a piece late into the endgame.
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Tiviakov handed Short his third loss in a row. Short may be out of form, but this was nonetheless a fine attacking game by Tiviakov, who tore black apart in a Ruy Lopez(Worrall Attack C86), sacrificing two pawns along the way.
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Bluvshtein is just a half point off the pace after his victory over fellow Canadian Pascal Charbonneau. A Kings Indian(E98), both players thought during the postmortem that the other was worse at some point, but nonetheless agreed that Pascal's 25. ... Bh6 was "crazy" and led to a quick loss.
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Miton v Elyanov was a fighting draw that went the duration before the player's agreed to share the point.
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Coleaders Sergey Tiviakov and Pentala Harikrishna
Nigel Short is having no luck this tournament
FQE select Myriam Roy had the daunting task of facing the legendary Pia Cramling in the first round of the Women's Grand Prix Finale
Fresh from her victory at the US women's championship, Irina Krush
Take this (the Personal Chess Manager by Monroi)
Combine it with this
And you get this, real time broadcast for the benefit of live spectators and on those on the internet.
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