Beijing Grand Prix, Round 1: Topalov Beats Gelfand
Thursday, July 4, 2013 at 9:07AM
Dennis Monokroussos in 2013 Beijing Grand Prix, Boris Gelfand, Veselin Topalov

It's only round 1, but Veselin Topalov must be very happy to beat one of his main competitors, Boris Gelfand, and with the black pieces too. It's a nice way for him to start his final grand prix event of the current cycle.

Other round 1 results in Beijing: Karjakin won with Black against Giri, Grischuk won with Black against Kamsky (so much for the fourth of July!), and the other three games (Morozevich-Wang Yue, Ivanchuk-Wang Hao and Leko-Mamedyarov) were drawn.

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