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43rd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting 2015 (2)
Nisipeanu leads Dortmund Chess tournament alone on 2/2
Mark Crowther - Sunday 28th June 2015
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu leads the Dortmund Chess tournament with a 2/2 with an impressive defeat of Arkadij Naiditsch in the second round. This was a razor-sharp advance Caro-Kann where Nisipeanu got running pawns in the centre and a rook in return for bishop and knight. Nisipeanu leads the rest of the field by a point already going into the first rest day.
Vladimir Kramnik found an impressive pawn sacrifice straight out of the opening against Hou Yifan which left her with a difficult position to play and she never really extracted herself from the bind Kramnik set up and the game finished in 28 moves.
Georg Meier got a good Steinitz French as black against Ian Nepomniachtchi and the game finished in a draw by repetition.
Fabiano Caruana's awful record against the Najdorf Sicilian continued as he went down to a loss against Wesley So. It might have all been different had Caruana found 20.c5! which the computers gave as a rather large advantage to white. Insteand So's Rook and two pawns were far better than bishop and knight and although Caruana put up great resistance he couldn't save the game in the end.
Rest day Monday.
Round 2 Standings: Nisipeanu 2pts, Naiditsch, Meier, So, Nepomniachtchi, Kramnik 1pt Caruana, Hou 0.5pts,
Round 3 Pairings Tuesday 30th June 2pm: Meier-Caruana, Kramnik-Nepomniachtchi, Nisipeanu-Hou, So-Naiditsch
| 43rd GM 2015 Dortmund GER (GER), 26 vi-5 vii 2015 | cat. XIX (2724) | |||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |||||||
| 1. | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | g | GER | 2654 | * | 1 | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | 2 | |
| 2. | Naiditsch, Arkadij | g | GER | 2722 | 0 | * | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | 1 | 2718 |
| 3. | Meier, Georg | g | GER | 2654 | . | . | * | ½ | . | . | ½ | . | 1 | 2698 |
| 4. | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | g | RUS | 2720 | . | . | ½ | * | . | . | . | ½ | 1 | 2729 |
| 5. | So, Wesley | g | USA | 2778 | 0 | . | . | . | * | . | . | 1 | 1 | 2729 |
| 6. | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2783 | . | 0 | . | . | . | * | 1 | . | 1 | 2699 |
| 7. | Hou, Yifan | g | CHN | 2676 | . | . | ½ | . | . | 0 | * | . | ½ | 2525 |
| 8. | Caruana, Fabiano | g | USA | 2805 | . | . | . | ½ | 0 | . | . | * | ½ | 2556 |
| Round 2 (June 28, 2015) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naiditsch, Arkadij | - Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | 0-1 | 49 | B12 | Caro Kann Advanced | |
| Nepomniachtchi, Ian | - Meier, Georg | ½-½ | 25 | C11 | French Defence | |
| Hou, Yifan | - Kramnik, Vladimir | 0-1 | 28 | C65 | Ruy Lopez Berlin | |
| Caruana, Fabiano | - So, Wesley | 0-1 | 69 | B90 | Sicilian Najdorf Variation | |
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