NH Tournament, Round 2
Friday, August 13, 2010 at 8:27PM
Dennis Monokroussos in NH Tournament 2010

The "old" guys had White today, but they were even less successful than the kids were yesterday! Four games were drawn, though White had an edge in a couple of games and a won position in van Wely-Nakamura. Ultimately, though, the only winner was David Howell, with Black, against a very slow moving Ljubomir Ljubojevic. The Rising Stars "team"* thus leads by one, with all the youngsters on 50% except for Nakamura, who is on +1 despite his somewhat shaky play thus far.

The tournament website is here, the games - with my notes - are here.

 

* I put "team" in scare quotes because it's in each team member's interest for his teammates to fail dismally: the top scorer on the Rising Stars team (at least if he finishes with a plus score) wins an automatic spot to the Amber rapid & blindfold tournament in early 2011.

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