Round 5 at Biel
What happened to our regular single round victory? All games in round 5 at the Biel GM tournament were drawn, although Alekseev and Caruana battled it out in Sicilian Dragon that provided some real interest.
The expected game of the round barely started before it was over. The normally creative and pugnacious Morozevich and Ivanchuk managed just 12 moves before agreeing to share the point. Did they have something better to do that day? A great shame.
So at the halfway point of this double-round robin competition, the scores are:
Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2703 | 3 |
Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | 2751 | 3 |
Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 2670 | 2½ |
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2703 | 2½ |
Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2755 | 2 |
Alekseev, Evgeny | RUS | 2714 | 2 |
Ivanchuk and Morozevich...have a day off (pic from the official site)