So Finishes Fifth, Nguyen, Vachier-Lagrave and Caruana tied for first in Ninth Round of Biel Chess Festival
Nguyen Truoc Son provided the biggest reversal in the penultimate ninth round of the 43rd Biel Chess Young Grandmasters Tournament as he demolished fast-rising star Anish Giri of the Netherlands 1-0, to forge a three-way tie with Grandmasters Maxim Vachier-Lagrave of France and Fabiano Caruana of Italy who scored draws on their respective games. The three totes an identical 5.5 points out of the possible 9.0 points.
Vachier-Lagrave handling the disadvantageous black pieces was held to a draw by Indian GM Paramirjan Negi while Caruana extracted a draw from GM David Howell of England.
Caruana and Vachier-Lagrave will dispute in a two game knockout matches to determine the finalist against Nguyen.
In other chess actions in Biel, Switzerland, GM Wesley So of the Philippines who was at on the losing game against GM Dmitry Andreikin of Russia, still managed to eked out a hard fought draw to hike his total points to 4.5 and finished at the middle pack of the 10 All-GM, single round tournament that gathered some of the best young woodpushers from around the round.
Second seed GM Evgeny Tomashevsky of Russia was also held to a truce against GM Maxim Rodhstein of Israel.
Standings after nine round in the Young Grandmasters Tournament Section of Biel Chess Festival
| Points | SB | |||
| 1. | Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | (VIE, 2617) | 5.5 | 24.00 |
| Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | (FRA, 2723) | 5.5 | 23.75 | |
| Fabiano Caruana | (ITA, 2697) | 5.5 | 23.25 | |
| 4. | Dmitry Andreikin | (RUS, 2650) | 5.0 | |
| 5. | Wesley So | (PHI, 2674) | 4.5 | 19.50 |
| Evgeny Tomashevsky | (RUS, 2708) | 4.5 | 18.75 | |
| Maxim Rodshtein | (ISR, 2609) | 4.5 | 18.50 | |
| 8. | Anish Giri | (NED, 2672) | 4.0 | |
| 9. | David Howell | (ENG, 2616) | 3.5 | |
| 10. | Parimarjan Negi | (IND, 2615) | 2.5 |
Tags: 43rd Biel Chess Young Grandmasters Tournament, Anish Giri of the Netherlands, Biel, Dmitry Andreikin of Russia, Evgeny Tomashevsky of Russia, Fabiano Caruana of Italy, France, GM David Howell, GM Wesley So, GM Wesley So of the Philippines, Maxim Rodhstein of Israel, Maxim Vachier-Lagrave, Paramirjan Negi, Standings after nine round in the Young Grandmasters Tournament Section of Biel Chess Festival, Switzerland
Chess, Games, Maxim Vachier-Lagrave | howitzer | 
July 29, 2010 8:27 am
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