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Konstantin Landa and Vugar Gashimov joined overnight leader, Zoltan Almasi at the Reggio Emilia chess tournament. They have collected 2 points each out of the possible 3. The tournament is a very strong one and even Navara, who was recently above 2700 is in the last place with just one point. Landa beat Marin and Gashimov beat Navara (with black pieces). The remaining games were drawn. Standings after round 3: Almasi, Landa, Gashimov - 2 Korchnoi, Ni Hua, Harikrishna, Marin - 1.5 Tiviakov, Godena, Navara - 1

Harikrishna beat in form Godena in the second round of the Reggio Emilia tournament. All the other games were drawn. Results of second round: Gashimov vs Ni Hua 0.5 - 0.5 Korchnoi vs Almasi 0.5 - 0.5 Marin vs Navara 0.5 - 0.5 P Harikrishna vs Godena 1-0 Tiviakov vs Landa 0.5 - 0.5

The strong Reggio Emilia tournament has started. There were two winners today: Mihail Marin beat Sergei Tiviakov and Zoltan Almasi beat Pentala Harikrishna. Gashimov vs Godena, Korchnoi vs Landa, Navara vs Ni Hua were drawn.

Tournaments to be held in the near future: Hastings Chess Congress - 28 December 2007 to 6 January 2008 (David Howell,Stuart Conquest, Glenn Flear, Danny Gormally, Valeriy Neverov, Mark Hebden, Nicholas Pert,Safarli Eltaj Nidjat, Mamedov, others ). Contact Stuart Reuben. 50th Torneo di Capodanno Reggio Emilia - December 29th 2007 - January 6th 2008 (Almasi Zoltan, Landa Konstantin, Harikrishna Pentala, Gashimov Vugar, Navara David, Tivjakov Sergej, Ni Hua, Korchnoi Viktor, Marin Mihail, Godena Michele) 6th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament New Delhi, 12-20 January 2008 http://www.delhichess.com/