17 January 2020
Wesley So and Alireza Firouzja Lead Masters Event at Tata Steel Chess Tournament
Five rounds are over.
The fifth round of the Tata Steel Tournament was played in Eindhoven on January 16. Alireza Firouzja outplayed Anish Giri, Viswanathan Anand bested Jefferey Xiong, while the games Carlsen - Dubov, Caruana - Van Foreest, Vitiugov - Yu Yangyi, Kovalev - So, and Duda - Artemiev were drawn.
Standings after Round 5:
1-2. Wesley So, Alireza Firouzja - 3.5
3-5. Jorden Van Foreest, Fabiano Caruana, Vladislav Artemiev - 3
6-10. Daniil Dubov, Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Jefferey Xiong - 2.5
11-12. Anish Giri, Nikita Vitiugov - 2
13. Yu Yangyi - 1.5
14. Vladislav Kovalev - 1.
Round 6 pairings:
Dubov - Artemiev, So - Duda, Giri - Kovalev, Yu Yangyi - Firouzja, Xiong - Vitiugov, Van Foreest - Anand, Carlsen - Caruana.
Pavel Eljanov, Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Erwin l'Ami are leading the Tata Steel Challengers with 3.5 points scored.
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