London Grand Prix Round 6: Nakamura Blunders

Hikaru Nakamura lost with the white pieces against Wang Hao in round six of the FIDE London Grand Prix. Nakamura blundered with 45.Nxa4 and resigned two moves later.

There were two other decisive results in the round: Veselin Topalov won an impressive game against Leinier Dominguez Perez, and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov defeated Rustam Kasimdzhanov thanks to a blunder from the Uzbek player on move 38.

Boris Gelfand drew his game against Vassily Ivanchuk and leads with 4 points out of 6.

The standings after 6 rounds

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Hikaru Nakamura and Wang Hao shake hands at the start of their game

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Veselin Topalov was impressive against Leinier Dominguez Perez

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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov beat Rustam Kasimdzhanov

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Alexander Grischuk and Michael Adams

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Peter Leko and Anish Giri

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Boris Gelfand and Vassily Ivanchuk

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The London Grand Prix is the first tournament of the 2012/13 FIDE Grand Prix series. After the first contest in London, the series moves on to Tashkent, Lisbon, Madrid, Berlin and Paris.  Each tournament is a single round-robin featuring 12 out of the 18 players in the Grand Prix, and each player competes in four of the six events.  Details of dates and participants can be found here.

The overall winner and runner-up of the Grand Prix qualify for the March 2014 Candidates Tournament.

The schedule for the London Grand Prix:

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Rounds start at 14:00 local time (13:00 UTC). The time control is 40 moves in 2 hours, followed by 20 moves in 1 hour, then an extra 15 minutes to a finish with a 30 second increment after the second time control.

Draws can only be claimed for triple-repetition of position, theoretical draws, or 50-move rule.

The official regulations for the 2012 FIDE Grand Prix can be found here.

Official website here. Games via TWIC. Photos by Ray Morris-Hill.

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