Continental Chess Championship 2013 Rd8-Hambleton A(CAN)

Results
Hambleton won in rd8 and now has 5.5/8. Here are his results by round.

Rd.		Name	FIDE	FED	Pts.	Res.
1	WIM	Cordero Daniela	2074	BOL	3.5	w 1
2	FM	Saavedra Carlos	2179	BOL	3.5	s 1
3	FM	Cuellar Diego	2323	PER	5	w 1
4	IM	Cornejo Max	2380	PER	5	s 0
5	IM	Pacheco Marco	2384	PER	5.5	w 0
6	FM	Lopez Mario Iver	2197	BOL	4	s 1
7	FM	Principe Alexander	2261	PER	5	w ½
8	IM	Ruiz C Joshua D	2370	COL	5	s 1

Standings
Granda Zuniga,Bruzon,Ortiz and Iturrizaga share the lead with 6.5/8.

More on Iturrizaga,E(Spanish)

Rk.		Name	FED	FIDE	Pts.
1	GM	Granda Zuniga Julio E	PER	2659	6.5
2	GM	Bruzon Batista Lazaro	CUB	2707	6.5
3	GM	Ortiz Suarez Isan Reynaldo	CUB	2598	6.5
4	GM	Iturrizaga Eduardo	VEN	2655	6.5
5	GM	Flores Diego	ARG	2586	6
6	IM	Pacheco Marco	PER	2384	5.5
7	GM	Bachmann Axel	PAR	2531	5.5
8	GM	Cubas Jose Fernando	PAR	2550	5.5
9	IM	Gonzalez Bernal	CRC	2461	5.5
10	IM	Leiva Giuseppe	PER	2388	5.5
11	IM	Sarkar Justin	USA	2437	5.5
12	IM	Ynojosa Felix Jose	VEN	2371	5.5
13	GM	Mekhitarian Krikor Sevag	BRA	2551	5.5
14	GM	Lenderman Aleksandr	USA	2585	5.5
15	FM	Gutierrez Carmelo	PER	2253	5.5
16	IM	Hambleton Aman	CAN	2468	5.5
17	IM	Prasca Sosa Rafael	VEN	2426	5.5
18	GM	Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo	CHI	2554	5.5
19	IM	Ruiz C Joshua D	COL	2370	5
20	FM	Martinez Alcantara Jose Eduar	PER	2208	5
21	FM	Principe Alexander	PER	2261	5
22	IM	Cornejo Max	PER	2380	5
23	FM	Latorre Matias	PAR	2254	5
24	GM	Cori Jorge	PER	2546	5
25	FM	Cuellar Diego	PER	2323	5
26	GM	Zambrana Oswaldo	BOL	2478	5
27		Martinez Ariel A.	BOL	2203	5
28	WGM	Cori T. Deysi	PER	2430	5
29	IM	Rios Cristhian Camilo	COL	2362	5

Here is Hambleton's rd7 game.

Hambleton could make no headway in an even RRBB-RRBN ending with more space. The ending was played out to a drawn K+P but black just would not make a mistake.

Hambleton,Aman (2468) - Principe,Alexander (2261)

King’s Indian[E81]

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