Round 5 results
| Nakamura, Hikaru | - Ivanchuk, Vassily | 1-0 |
| Morozevich, Alexander | - Vitiugov, Nikita | 1-0 |
| Caruana, Fabiano | - Giri, Anish | 0-1 |
Standings after 5 rounds
| 1. | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2758 | 11 |
| 2. | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2762 | 10 |
| 3. | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2775 | 8 |
| 4. | Giri, Anish | g | NED | 2714 | 5 |
| 5. | Caruana, Fabiano | g | ITA | 2727 | 4 |
| 6. | Vitiugov, Nikita | g | RUS | 2729 | 2 |
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1 comments:
Nakamura-Ivanchuk was great entertainment for us spectators! -- esp. assisted with the computer, Houdini, on Chessdom.com
At one stage, after 35...Qxg3+, Ivanchuk appeared to be winning.
It's pretty hard to defend in general, more so when your king is exposed and the other side's pieces are swarming around it. Nakamura played amazingly to defend. e.g., 42. Rc2, wow.
But according to Houdini, Ivanchuk misplayed on his 37th and 40th moves, probably in time pressure.
Still, very entertaining game for us spectators! The players will get high blood pressure if they continue this way :-)
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