Caruana and Laznicka win

Laznicka a few days ago in Slovenia

There were two decisive results in the first round of the 12th Poikovsky tournament. Victor Laznicka beat Lazaro Bruzon and Fabiano Caruana beat second seed Dmitri Jakovenko. Both of the losers went badly astray just before the time control.

First round results:

White	Rating	Results	Black	Rating
Victor Laznicka	2701	1-0	Lazaro Bruzon Batista	2682
Fabiano Caruana	2712	1-0	Dmitry Jakovenko	2716
Sergey Karjakin	2772	½-½	Alexander Onischuk	2669
Etienne Bacrot	2705	½-½	Alexander Motylev	2690
Sergey Rublevsky	2681	½-½	Zahar Efimenko	2703

The official site: http://admoil.ru/chess_2011.html