Fabiano Caruana amazed the chess world with his performance in the first half of Sinquefield Cup 2014. The Italian-American player starter the strongest ever closed championship with a perfect 5 out of 5, defeating every single opponent in the event.
With his achievement Caruana emulates the start ofIvanchuk at Mtel Masters and is chasing the unprecedented sweep of 6,0/6 of Fischer in Candidates events.
Before the tournament Caruana shared to be aiming for 5,0 or 5,5 points and he has practically completed his goal. A higher goal is certainly now in place, as the rating difference between Caruana and Carlsen is melting. They started 69 ELO points apart, now Carlsen stands at 2864 ELO and Caruana at 2826 ELO, thus with a difference of only 38 points.
Carlsen himself is in a mini-slump came to an end yesterday, not without the help of Levon Aronian who misplayed the endgame. If you are following closely the World Champion do not forget to take your copy of Chess Insider pdf magazine Sinquefield edition with GM commentary of Carlsen’s games. It is only available as part of Carlsen – Anand package where subscribers have already received ALL games of Carlsen from Shamkir, Norway Chess, the Olympiad, as well as Anand’s games from Candidates, the coming Bilbao Masters, and of course the World Chess Championship 2014.
Nakamura is on the top ten rank players in the world. He acquired this ELO rating by playing under rated GMs. Now his dillera is facing the real competition. Don’t know how is he gonna handle this.
Nakamura comparing himself to Bobby Fischer? And he said he is better than Bobby? What a pathetic guy. Nice try but nobody will believe him.
What ever happens to this tourney, Nakamura is still the best, intelligent, smartest player in the universe.
Nakamura will destroy this toddler next time around and you can take that to your bank. Talent wise, this kid is garbage compared to Naka.