Nakamura Beats Nisipeanu At Bazna
Hikaru Nakamura profited from a blunder from Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu to win the only decisive game of the second round at the Bazna Kings tournament in Medias, Romania.
It was a tragic end for the Romanian who held his own until miscalculating at the second time control with 60...f3? which lost quickly.
Magnus Carlsen easily equalised against Vasilly Ivanchuk in a Ruy Lopez, with the game ending drawn after 33 moves.
Teimour Radjabov probed Sergey Karjakin's defences for a long time in a blocked position, but no amount of manoeuvring could break through and the game was drawn after 90 moves.
Round 3 tomorrow will be Carlsen v Radjabov, Nisipeanu v Ivanchuk, and Karjakin v Nakamura.
The standings after two rounds:
| Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2815 | 1½ |
| Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2776 | 1½ |
| Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | 2776 | 1 |
| Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2774 | 1 |
| Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2744 | ½ |
| Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 2659 | ½ |
Games start at 15:30 local time (12:30 UTC) except the last round which is 2 hours earlier. There are rest days on 15 and 20 June.
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.
