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Ivanchuk Maintains Lead As Tata Steel Visits Rotterdam
- PeterDoggers
- on 15.01.15 15:22.
The fifth round of the Tata Steel masters was held in Rotterdam, where GM Vassily Ivanchuk managed to maintain his lead.The Ukrainian grandmaster drew quickly with one of the two players trailing by half a point: GM Ding Liren. The other, GM Fabiano Caruana, lost to GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek.
World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen played his best game so far and defeated GM Levon Aronian to reach plus one. There were two more winners today: GM Anish Giri beat GM Baadur Jobava and GM Teimour Radjabov won against GM Ivan Saric.
The challengers group, which played its games in an almost empty playing hall in Wijk aan Zee, again saw no fewer than six decisive games. GM Erwin l'Ami, GM David Navara and GM Wei Yi are tied for first place with 3.5/5.
GM Vassily Ivanchuk's online analysis with GM Yasser Seirawan on Tuesday ended quite funnily. The tournament leader asked, "what time the bus would leave Wijk aan Zee on Thursday," and for several minutes he was discussing practical matters — on air.
Ivanchuk did make the bus in time, in which the players (except Magnus Carlsen, who went separately) traveled from Wijk aan Zee to Rotterdam, the first of two “satellite” cities this year.
Next week, one round will be played in The Hague.
