It’s rest day today for the Sinquefield Cup 2016, so we just let GM Maurice Ashley do the recap and show us what happened in Round 5.
Round 6 is coming up soon. Wesley So will be up against the tournament leader, Veselin Topalov. The rest of the pairings are the following:
Sinquefield Cup 2016 Round 6 Match-Ups
Name | Rtg | Res. | Name | Rtg |
---|---|---|---|---|
Levon Aronian | 2792 | -- | M. Vachier-Lagrave | 2819 |
Hikaru Nakamura | 2791 | -- | Fabiano Caruana | 2807 |
Ding Liren | 2755 | -- | Peter Svidler | 2751 |
Wesley So | 2771 | -- | Veselin Topalov | 2761 |
Anish Giri | 2769 | -- | Viswanathan Anand | 2770 |
For your reference, here’s the ranking after Round 5:
Sinquefield Cup 2016 Ranking after 5 Rounds
# | Name | Pts | SB |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Topalov, Veselin | 3.5 | 7.00 |
2 | So, Wesley | 3.0 | 7.50 |
Anand, Viswanathan | 3.0 | 7.00 | |
Aronian, Levon | 3.0 | 6.25 | |
5 | Caruana, Fabiano | 2.5 | 6.50 |
Nakamura, Hikaru | 2.5 | 6.00 | |
7 | Ding, Liren | 2.0 | 5.50 |
Giri, Anish | 2.0 | 5.00 | |
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | 2.0 | 4.75 | |
10 | Svidler, Peter | 1.5 | 3.50 |