TWIC is 30. First issue 17th September 1994.
46th Biel Chess Festival 2013 (7)
Bacrot holds on to Biel lead after 7 rounds
Mark Crowther - Monday 29th July 2013
Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in Biel. Photo © Biel Chess Festival. | http://www.bielchessfestival.ch
Etienne Bacrot escaped with a draw against Liren Ding in Round 7 of the Biel Breisacher Memorial and leads the event on 11/21 points a point clear of Ding Liren, Alexander Moiseenko and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.
Liren Ding looked very close to a win but the players couldn't find a definitive win for him in a very sharp 4.f3 Nimzo-Indian and so Bacrot got a draw and kept his lead.
Richard Rapport took an aggressive approach against Alexander Moiseenko's solid opening and ended up with a difficult position to play with positional weaknesses which quickly started to tell and after 26...Qg4 he was busted although it took a very long time to grind the point out.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave slowly crushed the life out of Ian Nepomniachtchi's Gruenfeld with a Fianchetto system where black's position gradually became more and more passive. 34.Bxd5 won a pawn without compensation but Nepomniachtchi fought on to a rook and pawn ending before being forced to resign.
Round 7 Standings: Bacrot 11pts, Liren Ding, Moiseenko, Vachier-Lagrave 10pts, Nepomniachtchi 5 pts, Rapport 4pts.
Round 8 Pairings: Bacrot-Vachier-Lagrave, Nepomniachtchi-Moiseenko, Rapport-Ding Liren.
| Breisacher Memorial Biel (SUI), 22 vii-1 viii 2013 | cat. XIX (2709) | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||||||||||
| 1. | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2714 | * | * | 1 | ½ | ½ | . | ½ | . | ½ | ½ | 1 | . | 11 | 2812 |
| 2. | Ding, Liren | g | CHN | 2714 | 0 | ½ | * | * | ½ | 1 | 1 | . | ½ | . | ½ | . | 10 | 2757 |
| 3. | Moiseenko, Alexander | g | UKR | 2699 | ½ | . | ½ | 0 | * | * | ½ | . | ½ | . | 1 | 1 | 10 | 2759 |
| 4. | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | g | FRA | 2719 | ½ | . | 0 | . | ½ | . | * | * | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 10 | 2756 |
| 5. | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | g | RUS | 2717 | ½ | ½ | ½ | . | ½ | . | 0 | 0 | * | * | ½ | . | 5 | 2608 |
| 6. | Rapport, Richard | g | HUN | 2693 | 0 | . | ½ | . | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | . | * | * | 4 | 2553 |
| Round 7 (July 29, 2013) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ding, Liren | - Bacrot, Etienne | ½-½ | 57 | E20 | Nimzo Indian | |
| Moiseenko, Alexander | - Rapport, Richard | 1-0 | 75 | A40 | Unusual Replies to 1.d4 | |
| Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | - Nepomniachtchi, Ian | 1-0 | 66 | E60 | King's Indian without Nc3 | |
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