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5th King's Tournament in Medias 2011 (3)

Nisipeanu beats Ivanchuk in only decisive game of round 3

Nisipeanu beat Ivanchuk. Photo © Chirila Radu-Catalin.

Nisipeanu beat Ivanchuk. Photo © Chirila Radu-Catalin. | http://www.turneulregilor.com

Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu won the only game of the day beating Vassily Ivanchuk in a Ruy Lopez Berlin where he exposed Ivanchuk's king and forced him into a losing ending. Nisipeanu converted after surviving terrible time trouble. Magnus Carlsen got less than nothing against Teimour Radjabov and flirted with danger in trying to keep some complexity in the game before the draw was agreed. Nakamura too had no problems on the black side of a Najdorf against Sergey Karjakin.

5th Kings Tournament Medias (ROU), 11-22 vi 2011 cat. XXI (2757)
1 2 3 4 5 6
1. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2815 * * 1 . . . ½ . . . ½ . 2 2889
2. Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2774 0 . * * 1 . . . ½ . . . 2750
3. Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROU 2659 . . 0 . * * 1 . ½ . . . 2775
4. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2776 ½ . . . 0 . * * . . 1 . 2739
5. Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2776 . . ½ . ½ . . . * * ½ . 2725
6. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2744 ½ . . . . . 0 . ½ . * * 1 2664

Round 3 (June 13, 2011)
Carlsen, Magnus - Radjabov, Teimour ½-½ 37 D37 QGD 5.Bf4
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter - Ivanchuk, Vassily 1-0 54 C67 Ruy Lopez Berlin
Karjakin, Sergey - Nakamura, Hikaru ½-½ 31 B90 Sicilian Najdorf Variation

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