26-01-2018 21:00 via theguardian.com

Chess: Leaders tightly grouped going into final rounds at Wijk aan Zee

The top six – Carlsen, Mamedyarov, Giri, Anand, Karjakin and Kramnik – are separated by one point with two rounds to go3531 Gary Quillan v Vugar Gashimov, Gibraltar 2009. Play went 1 Re3 Nd5 2 Rxc3 Nxc3 with an eventual draw. What did White miss during this sequence?The “chess Wimbledon” at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee looks like going to the wire this weekend. Two rounds from the finish a single point covered the top six in the standings. The world champion, Magnus Carlsen, t
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