Nakamura loses the Lead

It has been an exciting day in Paris! Nakamura lost an exciting game and his lead to Gelfand, and Caruana also won to join in the lead. With only one round to go, Caruana will have a chance to qualify for the 2014 World Championship Candidates tournament. Following are the two critical games.

Carlsen winning Sinquefield Cup

Carlsen only needed a draw today against Aronian to win the first Sinquefield Cup, while Aronian had to win. While pushing hard for a win and getting a good chance towards that, Aronian lost the initiative and ended up losing. 

The interesting move was after Aronian played 30. ... Rd4 offering an exchange and Carlsen responded with the brilliant move 31. Ne1!!. Few moves later Aronian should have repeated moves and taken the draw but instead he was looking for a win, when his position was getting worse.

Sinquefield Cup

Another interesting tournament started yesterday in Saint Louis. This tournament is a round robin that brings together the top two players in the world, Carlsen and Aronian, with the top two US players, Nakamura and Kamsky. It's not very common to have players at the level of Carlsen and Aronian playing in the US.

All games so far have been exciting, although with a lot of mistakes.