Rising Stars Wins Big In Match Round 3

15 August 2010, Amsterdam – The Rising Stars team won important round 3 matches of the NH Chess Tournament being held from 12 – 22 August 2010.

Match 3 results:
Nakamura – Nielsen   1 - 0
Caruana – Svidler      1 - 0
So – Gelfand            ½ - ½
Giri – Ljubojevic       ½ - ½
Howell – van Wely    1- 0

In the third round of the NH Chess Tournament the Rising Stars swept the Experience team 4-1. Hikaru Nakamura improved his personal score to 2½ from 3 with a win over Peter Heine Nielsen, Fabiano Caruana successfully exploited a strong opening novelty against Peter Svidler, and David Howell posted his second consecutive win in a wild time-trouble fight with Loek van Wely. The overall score after three rounds is 9½-5½ in favour of the Rising Stars.

To read more of the round 3 report, please click here.

Official website: http://www.nhchess.com/index.html