Nakamura Extends Reggio Emilia Lead
Hikaru Nakamura has extended his lead at the 2011/12 Reggio Emilia tournament in Italy with another win in round six.
Nakamura won for the second time against last-placed Nikita Vitiugov to put himself in a commanding lead.
His closest challengers Alexander Morozevich and Vassily Ivanchuk both lost today and now have a mountain to climb to catch the American.
As a result of his strong results so far, Nakamura is up to #5 in the live rankings!
The scores after six of ten rounds (3-1-0 scoring):
| Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2758 | 14 |
| Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | 2762 | 10 |
| Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2775 | 8 |
| Giri, Anish | NED | 2714 | 8 |
| Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 2727 | 7 |
| Vitiugov, Nikita | RUS | 2729 | 2 |
Nakamura seeing in the New Year in style with players from the women's event
The games in round seven on 3 January will be Morozevich v Giri, Caruana v Nakamura, and Vitiugov v Ivanchuk. Games start at 15:00 local time (14:00 UTC), and live coverage is available from the official website here.
Photo from Accademia Internazionale di Scacchi.
