Bruzon, ELO 2691, playing with black pieces, defeated Russian Vladimir
Potkin in 31 moves of a Bogo-Indian Defense, and now accumulates 6 points,
the same amount than Russian Motylev and Nederland’s L´Ami.

The Cuban grand master had a bad beginning in this tournament when he
started by losing his first game to Indian GM Harikrishna, and then had
three consecutives draws that left him in the bottom position after four
rounds.

Bruzon, with the highest ELo in this group, took a second air, and has won
4 of the last 5 games, only drawing with L´Ami in round 7.

Indian GM Harikrishna leads the group with 7 points out of 9 possible.

Meanwhile, Group A is now led by Armenian Aronian, holder of the second
highest ELO in the world, after world’s number one Norwegian Magnus
Carlsen was surprisingly defeated by the Russian GM Serguei Karjakin.