Just a few minutes after Ian Nepomniachtchi and Dmitry Kokarev repeated for a draw, Rauf Mamedov and Pavel Smirnov followed suit. Mamedov and Smirnov played awell known line of Sicilian Alapin, which led to material balance on the board. The players repeated moves and shook hands for a draw at move 27. The only players [...]
Two of the round 8 leaders at Moscow Open 2013, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and GM Dmitry Kokarev, finished their game from round 9 with an early draw. The game started as an interesting version of French Defense, but the players repeated moves and draw was signed on move 21. This leaves the first position up [...]
Final round live games with analysis
Seven players share the lead before the last round…
Romanko’s 7/7 impresses…
GM Boris Savchenko joins the leaders…
Romanko is on 6/6 in the women’s section…
Eliseev defeated the Indian GM S.P. Sethuraman…
Kokarev and Ponkratov are the new leaders…
WGM Dinara Saduakassova remains a point ahead…
