Nakamura Falters Against Ljubojevic
August 26, 2009
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Nakamura in today's game against Ljubojevic. Photo Cathy Rogers

Today at the Rising Stars vs. Experience NH tournament in Amsterdam , our U.S. Champion Hikaru Nakamura came back from an opening mishap (He is supposed to 0-0 before Nb3 in this line of the Accelerated Dragon) against Ljubojevic but then pushed too hard and lost. GM Ian Rogers, who wrote a report from the scene yesterday , told CLO: " He did fall into an opening trap (Correction- According to Macauley Peterson of chess.fm's audio interview, Nakamura intentionally played Nb3) but then fought back well and it was only because he pushed too hard with 29.Qb5+ (instead of Rxc8 and Rb8) that he got into trouble. After the game he admitted that he was feeling worse every day (healthwise)."

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GM Jan Smeets won his second game against Beliavsky in the double round robin to keep the Experience team's lead at two points.

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