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43rd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting 2015 (5)

Caruana and Nisipeanu lead on 3.5/5 with two rounds to go in Dortmund

Fabiano Caruana defeated Vladimir Kramnik in an interesting struggle in the fifth round of the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting. Kramnik's 13.Bxe4 was probably based on a miscalculation with his follow up 15.Qc2 being met by the strong 15...Bf5! Caruana was better from then on and got a mating attack on the run up to the first time control.

Wesley So won a fluctuating struggle in a Benoni structure against Ian Nepomniachtchi, 31...Nb6 would most likely have kept the balance for black but 31...c4?! followed by 34...Rxa4? lost the game for the Russian.

Georg Meier managed a solid draw against Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu and Arkadij Naiditsch drew against Hou Yifan.

Round 5 standings: Caruana, Nisipeanu 3.5pts/5, Kramnik 3pts, Naiditsch, So 2.5pts, Hou Yifan 2pts, Nepomniachtchi, Meier 1.5pts.

Round 6 Satuday 4th July 2015. Caruana-Hou Yifan, Nepomniachtchi-Naiditsch, Meier-So, KRamnik-Nisipeanu

43rd GM 2015 Dortmund GER (GER), 26 vi-5 vii 2015 cat. XIX (2724)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1. Caruana, Fabiano g USA 2805 * . 1 1 0 . ½ 1 2880
2. Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g GER 2654 . * . 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 2859
3. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2783 0 . * 0 . 1 1 1 3 2787
4. Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2722 0 0 1 * 1 ½ . . 2739
5. So, Wesley g USA 2778 1 0 . 0 * ½ 1 . 2715
6. Hou, Yifan g CHN 2676 . ½ 0 ½ ½ * . ½ 2 2646
7. Nepomniachtchi, Ian g RUS 2720 ½ ½ 0 . 0 . * ½ 2585
8. Meier, Georg g GER 2654 0 ½ 0 . . ½ ½ * 2578
Round 5 (July 3, 2015)
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter - Meier, Georg ½-½ 42 E42 Nimzo Indian Rubinstein
Kramnik, Vladimir - Caruana, Fabiano 0-1 38 D78 Gruenfeld 3.g3
Naiditsch, Arkadij - Hou, Yifan ½-½ 64 E48 Nimzo Indian
So, Wesley - Nepomniachtchi, Ian 1-0 49 E60 King's Indian without Nc3

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