[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: The French Top 16 pushes Nakamura over 2700

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
The French Top 16 pushes Nakamura over 2700
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1212720838.shtml


   This past weekend, the [1]French Top 16 (a team competition)
   concluded, and Hikaru Nakamura's 3-0 finish will put him over 2700 on
   the July 2008 FIDE list, according to his stepfather, Sunil
   Weeramantry. (This I discovered from a brief chat with him earlier
   this evening at the tournament site for the National Open. The main
   event starts tomorrow; today (Thursday) there were some side events: a
   G/10 tourney (won by Nakamura, I was told), a couple of simuls, and a
   G/5 (yet to occur by the time I left). (I have no results to report -
   I was just checking out the site and the bookstore.))
   There are a lot of 2700s nowadays, so this isn't yet enough to get him
   surefire invites to the superduper tournaments, but it's a big step in
   that direction. One might think that on the verge of this milestone,
   he'd try to play it safe and defeat his opponents by superior
   technique, but as you'll see from [2]this game, he didn't exactly go
   out of his way to avoid complications.

References

   1. http://www.echecs.asso.fr/
   2. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/files/nakamura_ninov_france2008.htm