| Sunday August 22 Round X |
| 12:00 |
Gelfand – Nakamura |
½ - ½ |
|
Ljubojevic – Caruana |
½ - ½ |
|
van Wely – So |
½ - ½ |
|
Nielsen – Giri |
1 - 0 |
|
Svidler - Howell |
1 - 0 |
Rising Stars defeat Experience 26-24
Nakamura wins ticket to 2011 Amber
Blindfold and Rapid Tournament
In the tenth and last round of the NH Chess
Tournament the Experience team defeated the Rising Stars 3½-1½, but couldn’t
prevent the youngsters’ overall win of 26-24. Peter Heine Nielsen beat Anish Giri, while Peter Svidler decided the longest game of the
tournament, against David Howell, in his favour.
The fight for the ticket to the 2011 Amber
was decided in a blitz tie-break after Giri had dramatically suffered his first
loss in the tournament and Hikaru Nakamura managed to catch up with him. The
tie-break confirmed the American’s blitz reputation. Nakamura won both games
and will make his Amber debut in the 20th edition of this blindfold
and rapid spectacle. At the closing dinner tournament director Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam announced that this fifth edition had been the last NH Chess tournament. Read more..
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