Grand-Prix 2017 Events Venues and Dates confirmed

[NickFaulks]

Hari has worked hard because he had no choice, defending two difficult endings. I'm sure he would have been delighted to play fewer moves.

[Matt Mackenzie]

The real point is that a 9 round Swiss with so few players is a strange format, and that it inhibits enterprising play maybe shouldn't surprise?

[Mick Norris]

Shak has won to take his live rating to 2798

[LawrenceCooper]

Shak has won to take his live rating to 2798

He is a scary player with the initiative.

[LawrenceCooper]

Lots of decisive result today with wins for Mamedyarov with white and Ding, Hammer, Salem & Svidler all with black.

[NickFaulks]

So far six wins and two losses for Black.

[Mick Norris]

Round 4
Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name FED Rtg No.

1 4 GM Ding Liren CHN 2773 2½ 2 GM Svidler Peter RUS 2755 6
2 17 GM Salem A.R. Saleh UAE 2633 2 2 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar AZE 2772 5

3 8 GM Grischuk Alexander RUS 2750 1½ 1½ GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime FRA 2795 1
4 2 GM Nakamura Hikaru USA 2786 1½ 1½ GM Hou Yifan CHN 2652 16
5 18 GM Hammer Jon Ludvig NOR 2621 1½ 1½ GM Giri Anish NED 2785 3
6 12 GM Gelfand Boris ISR 2724 1½ 1½ GM Tomashevsky Evgeny RUS 2696 15
7 14 GM Vallejo Pons Francisco ESP 2710 1½ 1½ GM Radjabov Teimour AZE 2710 13

8 10 GM Adams Michael ENG 2747 1 1 GM Nepomniachtchi Ian RUS 2751 7
9 11 GM Inarkiev Ernesto RUS 2727 ½ 1 GM Harikrishna P. IND 2750 9

[Chris Rice]

ChessBase report on a very exciting Round 3 and lets hope for more of that today. The only downside is that the report starts with Mamedyarov wiping out Mickey.

[Mick Norris]

chess.com report only has it as the second featured game

[LawrenceCooper]

No quick draws today but Adams lost with white to Nepomniachtchi who was an hour up on time very early on and had 2h 8m at one point whilst Mickey was very low on time.

[NickFaulks]

So far six wins and two losses for Black.

Make that nine wins and two losses.

[LawrenceCooper]

Pairings/Results
Round 5 on 2017/05/16 at 14.00
Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name FED Rtg No.
1 5 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar AZE 2772 3 3 GM Ding Liren CHN 2773 4
2 6 GM Svidler Peter RUS 2755 2½ 2½ GM Radjabov Teimour AZE 2710 13
3 1 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime FRA 2795 2 2 GM Salem A.R. Saleh UAE 2633 17
4 3 GM Giri Anish NED 2785 2 2 GM Nakamura Hikaru USA 2786 2
5 7 GM Nepomniachtchi Ian RUS 2751 2 2 GM Gelfand Boris ISR 2724 12
6 16 GM Hou Yifan CHN 2652 2 2 GM Grischuk Alexander RUS 2750 8
7 15 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny RUS 2696 2 2 GM Hammer Jon Ludvig NOR 2621 18
8 9 GM Harikrishna P. IND 2750 1½ 1 GM Adams Michael ENG 2747 10
9 14 GM Vallejo Pons Francisco ESP 2710 1½ 1 GM Inarkiev Ernesto RUS 2727 11

[Mick Norris]

Shak becomes the 13th player to have a live rating of 2800+ @ 2801.1 after today's win

[Christopher Kreuzer]

I feel the urge to update a certain thread coming on...

[Mick Norris]

I feel the urge to update a certain thread coming on...

Yes, but need to wait until it is an actual rating, rather than just a live rating

Shak has gained 29.1 rating points so far this month; no clue where he will finish