Bazna 'Kings' Tournament

The latest chess super-tournament is currently taking place in Bazna, Romania.

This is the third edition of the tournament, and the format has changed to a double round-robin featuring six strong Grandmasters, including local star Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (pictured).

After four rounds, the standings are:

The official site can be found here, where you can find player biographies, interviews, pictures, reports and live games.  All games start at 15:30 local time, except the last round which starts at 13:30.

The time control is 120 minutes for the first forty moves, 60 minutes for the next twenty moves and then 15 minutes and an increment of 30 seconds per move.   The tournament finishes on 25 June.

Nisipeanu (left) taking on Ivanchuk (right) in round 1 (picture from official site)

The decisive games so far are shown below.  It's nice to see Shirov and Ivanchuk playing well after their recent disappointing tournament results.  They slugged it out in an entertaining draw in round two.

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by master0062 - 2 years ago
Canton United States

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cool

by tofan - 2 years ago
Bucharest Romania

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very interesting game between Gelfand and Nisipeanu. Something was wrong in Nisipeanu"s game calculations finally.

by jumawanelbertm - 2 years ago
Dipolog City Philippines

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very nice game for gelfand and nisipeano

by hwatuseke - 2 years ago
Jakarta Indonesia

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Very interesting and a good game to see Ivanchuk is playing better than the other in the tournament the last time! I mean between the sample game that is above the graft yaaa stars if I can 4 and the other 3 ok? and your readers can 5 stars

by chris1011 - 2 years ago
new york United States

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i think he played 0-0-0 to get his rook straight to the open file

by Al_Qamar - 2 years ago
Toshkent Uzbekistan

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nice

by Helipacter - 2 years ago
Asturias Spain

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Could someone explain the benefits of Ivanchuk's 10..0-0-0 in his game against Shirov? The queenside seems decimated in comparison to the kingside.

Is it because he would need two extra moves in order to clear his KS and he just wanted his king away from the centre?

by littleAlekhine - 2 years ago
Stuttgart Germany

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very interesting games and nice to see that Ivanchuk is playing better than in the other tournaments last time!