12 June 2017

Hikaru Nakamura Maintains Leadership in Stavanger

All round 5 games were drawn.

On June 11, the fifth round of the Altibox Norway Chess Tournament was played in Stavanger. The games Karjakin - Caruana, Anand - So, Carlsen - Giri, Vachier-Lagrave - Aronian, and Kramnik - Nakamura ended in a draw.

Standings after round 5:

1. Hikaru Nakamura - 3.5,
2-3. Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian - 3,
4-7. Wesley So, Fabiano Caruana, Sergey Karjakin, Anish Giri - 2.5 
8-9. Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - 2,
10. Viswanathan Anand - 1.5.

Round 6 pairings:

Carlsen - Vachier-Lagrave, Aronian - Kramnik, Nakamura - Karjakin, Giri - So, Caruana - Anand.



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