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Gibraltar Masters 2016 - Round 6 summary |
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Monday, 01 February 2016 04:28 |
No fewer than ten players now share the lead on 5/6 after Sunday's sixth round. One of the four round five leaders on 4½/5, Etienne Bacrot (France), opted out of the round by taking a half-point bye, while Pentala Harikrishna and Abhijeet Gupta (both India) played a long but ultimately indecisive game.
Markus Ragger (Austria), the other player on 4½, drew an interesting struggle with Hikaru Nakamura (USA).
Six players caught up with the leading pack: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) ground out a win against Gawain Jones (England); Yu Yangyi (China) outplayed Romain Edouard (France); Richard Rapport (Hungary) refuted Adrien Demuth of France's speculative exchange sacrifice; Lazaro Bruzón (Cuba) (left) won what was probably the game of the day against Alexander Donchenko (Germany); Santosh Gujrathi Vidit (India) steadily outplayed Moulthun Ly (Australia); and Harika Dronavalli's great run of success was brought to an end by David Anton Guijarro (Spain).
In the race for the women's prize, Harika Dronavalli is still on 4/6 and has now been caught by Valentina Gunina (Russia), Irina Krush (USA), Padmini Rout (India), Alexandra Kosteniuk (Russia), Alina Kashlinskaya (Russia) and Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine).
Summary by John Saunders for official website
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