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Chessgames.com Update:
The 1st round of the Candidates tournament was about as placid as chess can
get, but afterwards the event took on a distinctly brutal demeanor. In round
2's Aronian-Gelfand
Boris apparently overlooked the deflection finesse 26.Bh6+! and later 30.g4!
(threatening to trap the bishop) leading to Aronian's first win. Meanwhile, Radjabov-Ivanchuk
came to a screeching halt after 21.Bxe5! forced Chuky to give up the queen.
It wasn't until round 3 when Gelfand-Carlsen
scored the Norwegian favorite his first win in a complicated Queen's Gambit.
Round 4 saw Carlsen
give Grischuk a lesson in the intricacies of the Ruy Lopez Berlin
Defense, while Chuky's
Tromp got trounced by Aronian. After four rounds, the score was tied:
Carlsen and Aronian both with 3/4.
While round 5 was all draws it was anything but boring, featuring a miracle save in Kramnik-Aronian where two full pawns were not enough to win, and Grischuk-Radjabov saw a piece sac for three connected passed pawns. Round 6 upped the ante, when both tournament leaders, Aronian and Carlsen, scored victories from the Black side of the board in Radjabov-Aronian and Svidler-Carlsen. Friday the players get a well-deserved rest day. Going into round 7 on Saturday, Aronian and Carlsen are still tied, and the scoreboard looks like this:
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