Saturday, November 26, 2011

Carlsen takes the trophy at the 2011 Tal Memorial

Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura to take first place in the 6th Tal Memorial in Moscow. Carlsen quickly obtained a decisive advantage with black which he realised in a lengthy technical ending.

He edged out Levon Aronian who finished level with him on 5.5/9 due to the fact he had played more games with black, most other tie-breaks favoured the Armenian.

Final standings:
1-2. Carlsen Magnus NOR 2826 and Aronian Levon ARM 2802 – 5½
3-5. Karjakin Sergey RUS 2763, Nepomniachtchi Ian RUS 2730 and Ivanchuk Vassily UKR 2775 – 5.0
6-7. Anand Viswanathan IND 2811 and Svidler Peter RUS 2755 – 4½
8. Kramnik Vladimir RUS 2800 and Gelfand Boris ISR 2744 – 3½
10. Nakamura Hikaru USA 2758 – 3.0

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