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The legend, Bent Larsen lost all his 9 games at the Magistral Internacional of the Argentine chess club Ruibal in Buenos Aires. It was the first tournament in four years that Larsen was participating. Some reports criticize Larsen for his "exotic" openings and want him to be invited to the Chess 960 events where he can play those kind of openings. Others suspect that he is losing it. Our hope is that he played those openings to get the young guns out of the opening books right from move one and hence the 1. g4? and and 1 e4 a5 The only chink in this variation of thinking is that he even refused a draw offer from old rival, Argentine player Carlos Garcia Palermo in the 7th round even though he had not scored at all from the first six rounds. Sad indeed! Check out the round by round scores here

Svidler keeps the lead at the Russian Chess Championships. But the news was that Morozevich outplayed Jakovenko. A player to watch is Nikita Vitiugov, who is quietly beating the weaker players(unfortunately 2600 is weak in Russia in such championships!), and drawing the stronger players. If you think Moro only plays those come-back-from-dead openings and shocking moves, think again. Take a look at this game where he displays amazingly innovative technique to beat a top class Grand Master that Jakovenko is. Leaders Svidler 4 Vitiugov 3.5 Morozevich, Lastin, Alekseev, Timofeev 3