It's noon here on the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. and three of the 5 6th round games have been completed today. Tournament leader Fransisco Vallejo Pons(4 pts) was going into today's round one full point ahead of 2nd place Vassily Ivanchuk(3 pts), with a multi-way 3rd place tie. Both of their games have finished up along with a third, so let us start the show.

   Game one is Short/Movsesian game, with both players coming into today involved in that very same multi-way tie with a 2.5/5 score. That has now changed since Movsesian won his game after a 20 move resignation by Short after 20...Qa4 in a Sicilian opening:

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   Next up, the game involving 2nd place competitor Vassily Ivanchuk, who has black today against Vugar Gashimov, who also has 2.5/5. They locked up today in an Advance Variation of the Caro Kann, and after 27.Ra8, Ivanchuk resigned:

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  Now, we have the game involving the tournament leader Fransisco Vallejo Pons, who has a near perfect 4.0/5 going into today, and is facing off against Fabiano Caruana, another of the 2.5/5 tribe. They duked it out today in a 24 move Semi-Slav Meran System opening, only going 24 move sets:

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   There are two games left and will be posted upon completion with a rough standings list. 

   -Mark

  Game 4 just finished up with David Navara, with 2 points takes on the bottom dweller tournament, native Italian Michele Godena, who is 1.0/5. They went to 38 moves in a QGD: Semi-Slav. Godena resigned after 38.Ne2

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   The last game, Morozevich/Onischuk, the last two players with 2.5/5 should be done very shortly.

   -Mark

nigel short lost via auto-destruction.

godena is showing this is not tournament for him

morozevich seems to be lost after missed advantages throught all the game

The last game, Morozevich/Onischuk, the last two players with 2.5/5, have just finished up their game, being the longest one of the day. It opened with a QGD: Exchange Variation and went into the 2nd time phase at 47 moves.

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    That's it for today everyone.  Here are the standings after 6 rounds:

ESP  GM Fransisco Vallejo Pons    4.5/6

USA  GM Alexander Onishcuk       3.5/6

SVK  GM Sergei Movsesian           3.5/6

AZE  GM Vugar Gashimov            3.5/6

UKR  GM Vassily Ivanchuk            3.0/6

CZE  GM David Navara                3.0/6

ITA   GM Fabiano Caruana            3.0/6

ENG GM NIgel Short                    2.5/6

RUS  GM Alexander Morozevich   2.5/6

ITA   GM Michele Godena            1.0/6

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  See you tomorrow everyone for Round 7 

  -Mark