The relentless and fearless Magnus Carlsen did not succeed today as Wang Hao emerged as the winner of Biel.
Leading by 1 point (3 pt for win, 1 for draw, and 0 for loss) over Wang Hao and Anish Giri heading to the final game, Carlsen could not beat Bacrot to maintain his lead. Wang Hao, on the other hand, took care of business by beating Anish Giri to capture the 2012 Biel title.
| Hikaru Nakamura | – | Victor Bologan | 1 – 0 | (58) | |
| Wang Hao | – | Anish Giri | 1 – 0 | (32) | |
| Magnus Carlsen | – | Etienne Bacrot | ½ – ½ | (62) |
Final standings
| ELO | games | points | SoBerg | |||
| 1. | Wang Hao | 2739 | CHN | 10 | 19 | |
| 2. | Magnus Carlsen | 2837 | NOR | 10 | 18 | |
| 3. | Anish Giri | 2696 | NED | 10 | 16 | 56.00 |
| Hikaru Nakamura | 2778 | USA | 10 | 16 | 56.00 | |
| 5. | Etienne Bacrot | 2713 | FRA | 10 | 7 | |
| 6. | Victor Bologan | 2732 | MDA | 8 | 4 |
Official website: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/en/home/
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Ok, this is it. I don’t like the 3-1-0 scoring system. The system allows you to win the tournament when you loose against strong opposition, but you win against weaker opponents.
Nakamura is best from this group.
Interesting tournament! Carlsen scored 18 points (not 17).
The basic idea behind the -1-0 system is to encourage win over draw. The chinese did a great job with only 1 draw in the tournament and willing to take risk fighting for win. Although he lost twice to Carlson, he is the very deserved champion.
how could anyone in that group be considered weak opponent?
They are all 2700 super GM’s.Try
winning a game against Hikaru or even Anish Giri.