Name: Hou Yifan
Age: 23
Country: China
World ranking: No. 96
Name: Magnus Carlsen
Age: 27
Country: Norway
World ranking: No. 1
Name: Matthias Blübaum
Age: 20
Country: Germany
World ranking: Nr. 138
Name: Viswanathan Anand
Age: 48
Country: Indien
World ranking: No. 9
Name: Levon Aronian
Age: 35
Counry: Armenia
World ranking: No. 5
Name: Nikita Vitiugov
Age: 31
Country: Russland
World ranking No. 26
Name: Fabiano Caruana
Age: 25
Country: USA
World ranking: No. 7
Name: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Age: 27
Country: France
World ranking: No. 6
Name: Georg Meier
Age: 30
Country: Germany
World rankinge: No. 109
Name: Arkadij Naiditsch
Age: 32
Country: Azerbaijan
World ranking: No. 41
Read more: Video Impressions | Round 6 | GRENKE Chess Classic
At the end of today’s live show Peter Leko was surprised when Jan Gustafsson announced all five games had ended in draws – it had been such an exciting day that for a second Peter struggled to believe there hadn’t been a single decisive result. Meier and Naiditsch are the two players who will be having the biggest regrets tonight as they had completely crushing positions against Carlsen and Bluebaum respectively. But let’s first have a look at the three games that ended peacefully without quite so much drama.
After being on the verge of defeat against Naiditsch yesterday, Matthias Bluebaum bounced back in the most sensational of ways – by taking out former World Champion Vishy Anand. Meanwhile Naiditsch himself also seemed to have recovered as he got the better of Georg Meier.
Read more: Bluebaum shocks Anand as Naiditsch bounces back to beat Meier
