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  • London Chess Classic round 6: Caruana’s brilliant queen sacrifice

London Chess Classic round 6: Caruana’s brilliant queen sacrifice

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  • Categories UK Chess News
  • Date 16th December 2016

Fabiano Caruana is within 11 points of Magnus Carlsen on the rating list after beating Hikaru Nakamura with a in a razor-sharp line of the Najdorf Sicilian. Wesley So still leads after cashing in on Veselin Topalov’s continuing self-destruction, while Maxime Vachier-Lagrave did the same when Levon Aronian over-pressed. Even Vishy Anand was in trouble after a speculative sacrifice, but he managed to hold against Anish Giri.

8th London Chess Classic LIVE coverage

The final game between Vladimir Kramnik and Mickey Adams saw Big Vlad take a leaf out of Carlsen’s playbook:

It featured an exchange sacrifice met by an exchange sacrifice and a neat piece sacrifice to end the game in perpetual check, but it couldn’t help but pale into insignificance against the backdrop of the other games.

round-6-standings

The net result is the table you can see below, where So, Caruana and Kramnik are spread out in the top three places before a group of five players on 50%.

With only three rounds to go it’s time for anyone with ambitions of winning the event to strike, so don’t miss Round 7 on Friday. Tune in from 17:00 CET for all the Round 6 action, while you can replay the Round 6 show, including all the player interviews, below:

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