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Carlsen takes the lead at Tata Steel Masters 2016 |
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Monday, 25 January 2016 05:40 |
Magnus Carlsen took the lead at the first top tournament of the year 78th Tata Steel Masters after drawing against Sergey Karjakin in the eighth round of the competition. The world champion collected 5.5/8 points to surge ahead with half a point advantage in front of Fabiano Caruana.
The former leader Caruana took second position with 5 points, after being defeated by David Navara. The Czech top player showed stunning technique in the endgame and trapped Caruana’s king into a checkmate net.
The other decisive game of the eighth round was Hou Yifan, playing Keres Attack with White pieces against Dutch player Loek Van Wely. Black’s imminent attack transformed into material advantage which was easily converted by Van Wely.
The games Michael Adams – Pavel Eljanov, Anish Giri – Evgeny Tomashevsky, Wesley So – Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Ding Liren – Wei Yi ended in a draw.
Schedule:
January 25th – Free day
January 26th – Round 9
January 27th – Round 10
January 28th – Free day
January 29th – Round 11
January 30th – Round 12
January 31st – Round 13
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