Kings Tournament Bazna, Romania 2010 with Carlsen

[Crossroad]

The Kings Tournament will take place in the period 14-25 June in Bazna, Romania. This year’s participants are Magnus Carlsen, Wang Yue, Boris Gelfand, Teimour Radjabov, Ruslan Ponomariov and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. The playing modus is double-round robin event with 2 free days. Sofia (anti-draw) rules apply.

The Kings Tournament replaces the Sofia M-Tel Masters in the Grand Slam circuit of this year. The Romanian Gas Company „Romgaz” is sponsoring the event, while the main organizer of Kings Tournament is „The chess club Elisabeta Polihroniade”.

Official tournament site: Kings Tournament 2010

[Meister]

Who will win the battle for second place? :P

Seriously, it looks like a pretty nice tournament.

[Sonic]

Boris Gelfand or Ruslan Ponomariov

[Crossroad]

Six more round to go!

[Meister]

It's hard to see Carlsen not win the tournament now. And he's picked up a lot of rating points.

[Crossroad]

Yes, about 10 rating points (still 1 round to go). Carlsen is in the lead now with 6.5/9 and one point ahead of Gelfand with 5.5/9. I guess he will draw his game tmr so secure his tournament win. I begin to wonder, when Carlsen will break Kasparovs Elo record (something like 2850).

[Checkmate]

Carlsen wins the tournament with +5. His opponent in the last round played like a chicken. I am sure Carlsen played for a draw with his Grunfeld, but his opponent played way to passive and Carlsen could push without risking anything.

[Event "4th Kings Tournament"]
[Site "Medias ROU"]
[Date "2010.06.25"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Wang Yue"]
[Black "Carlsen, M."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D85"]
[WhiteElo "2752"]
[BlackElo "2813"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[EventDate "2010.06.14"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Bd2 Bg7 6. e4 Nb6 7. Be3 O-O 8.
Bb5 Be6 9. Nge2 c6 10. Bd3 Nc4 11. Bxc4 Bxc4 12. O-O Nd7 13. Qd2 Qa5 14. Rfd1
Rad8 15. Bh6 Bxe2 16. Nxe2 Qxd2 17. Bxd2 Nb6 18. Bc3 Rd7 19. b3 f5 20. f3 Rfd8
21. Re1 fxe4 22. fxe4 e5 23. dxe5 Rd3 24. g3 Nd7 25. e6 Bxc3 26. Nxc3 Ne5 27.
Red1 Kf8 28. Rac1 Ke7 29. Rxd3 Rxd3 30. Rc2 Nf3+ 31. Kf1 Nd4 32. Rc1 Kxe6 33.
Rd1 Rxc3 34. Rxd4 Rc2 35. a4 Rxh2 36. a5 Rh5 37. b4 Rh2 38. a6 b5 39. e5 Ra2
40. Rd6+ Kxe5 41. Rxc6 Kf5 42. Rc7 Rxa6 43. Rxh7 Kg4 44. Kf2 Ra2+ 45. Ke3 g5
46. Rg7 Rb2 47. Rxa7 Kxg3 0-1