Carlsen Beats Nakamura In Bazna

The 5th Bazna Kings tournament opened with convincing wins for Carlsen and Ivanchuk against Nakamura and Radjabov respectively.

Carlsen played aggressively against Nakamura's QGD, castling queenside and attacking down the g and h-files, eventually breaking through to win.

Ivanchuk took aim at Radjabov's King's Indian defence and blew it apart with a lovely attacking game, which ended with checkmate just two moves away.

Rank outsider Nisipeanu comfortably obtained a draw with the white pieces against Karjakin by engineering a triple repetition of the position after 20 moves.  Nothing in the the anti-draw rules could stop that, apparently.

Joint leaders Carlsen and Ivanchuk will meet tomorrow, with Ivanchuk having white.  Carlsen tweeted that he is keen to avenge his 2 losses to Chucky at Amber!  Who will prevail?

Games start at 15:30 local time (12:30 UTC) except the last round which is 2 hours earlier.  June 15 and 20 are rest days.

The time control is 2 hours for the first 40 moves, 60 minutes for the next 20 moves, then 15 minutes to finish with a 30 second increment after move 60.

The official site with live broadcasts of the games is here, and the full draw can be found here.

Look out for updates at Chess.com!