The Daily Update: Dortmund, Biel, Computers
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 3:04PM In Dortmund, it's looking like Ruslan Ponomariov will be the winner. Le Quang Liem pushed against Mamedyarov, but couldn't win, and Leko - Kramnik was everything we thought it would be; i.e., nothing. But Ponomariov outplayed Naiditsch in good style, and he leads by a full point with two rounds to go.
In Biel, there was a shakeup atop the leaderboard. Wesley So had been leading, but he was defeated by Fabiano Caruana, and now it's Caruana who leads with 3.5 out of 5. So is half a point back, as are Dmitry Andreikin, Evgeny Tomashevsky, and Maxim Rodshtein, who defeated Anish Giri in the day's other decisive game.
Finally, the current computer match is tied at 3-3. Stockfish 1.8 won the first game, Houdini 1.3 the second, and the next four games were drawn. Note: I probably won't mention these matches any longer, except (if I'm reminded) when one ends and another one begins.
No annotated games today - sorry - I have too much else to do. But I do recommend that readers have a look at the decisive games from Dortmund and Biel, as they were all quite interesting.
Reader Comments (1)
The pairings actually make this more interesting than it seems as Pono will be taking on both his pursuers in the last 2 rounds. So its not over yet.