HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 16 (acn) All matches of the seventh round in the Capablanca Memorial Chess Tournament Elite Group finished in draw, but the same didn't happen in the Premier, although leaders of both pooles were ratified.
In the Elite main group, Ukrainians Vassily Ivanchuk (2710 Elo points) and Yuriy Krivoruchko (2682) signed peace after 27 moves of a French defense.
The first of them, six-time winner of these contests, was confirmed at the top with 4.5 units, strengthen thus what seems another accession to the throne.
The games between Cuban Leinier Dominguez (2723)-Hungarian Zoltan Alamsi (2688) and the also host Lazaro Bruzon (2681) vs. Bulgarian Ivan Cheparinov (2687) were also draws.
Ivanchuk is seconded by Almasi, Cheparinov and Kryvoruchko, all with three points, and then appear Leinier (2.5) and Bruzón (2).
In the Premier there were interesting results, but young American Jeffery Xiong (2627) remained as leader now with total of 4.5 points.
The current leader of the U-16 world ranking achieved his third consecutive draw, this time against Cuban Yuniesky Quesada (2631).
This round at the Barceló Solymar-Arenas Blancas hotel was better for local Camilo Gomez (2546), who reached his first win in the contest when becoming victimizer of the also American Samuel Sevian (2603).
In addition, Chilean Ivan Morovic (2572) beat Cuban Yusnel Bacallao (2554) and Polish Kamil Dragun (2599) defeated Spanish Angel Arribas (2544).
According to the official website of the competition, the game between the hosts Yuri González (2555) and Isan Ortiz (2578) finished in draw.
Now Xiong is escorted by Yuniesky and Ortiz, both with four points, Dragun (3.5), Yuri (3), Sevian, Arribas and Camilo (2.5), Bacallao (2) and Morovic (1.5).
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