Carlsen, M (2772) – Radjabov, T (2757) [B30]
2nd Pearl Spring – Nanjing, China (5), 02.10.2009
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 e6 4.0–0 Nge7 5.c3 a6 6.Ba4 b5 7.Bc2 Bb7 8.Qe2 d5 9.e5 d4 10.Be4 Qb6 11.d3 Rd8 12.a4 Nd5 13.axb5 axb5 14.cxd4 cxd4 15.Nbd2 Nf4 16.Qd1 Nb4 17.Nb3 Bxe4 18.dxe4 Nfd3 19.Bg5 Rc8 20.Nfxd4 Nxb2 21.Qe2 Nc4 22.Rfc1 Bc5 23.Nxb5 0–0 24.Nxc5 Nxe5 25.Be7 1–0
　
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
I bet you more people are following this than they followed the Kasparov-Karpov event in Valencia!
Carlsen is super-exciting to watch!
Kamalakanta
It’s hard to be believe that anyone will catch him so probably he cemented 1st place.
Is it just me or rest of the field seems quite scared? 🙂
if Carlsen beats Topalov he will become the new number1 in the world and will be a copule of points shy of 2800.
Cool down, all you excited people! Last year there was a time when he lacked successes, and so it will be again. I bet Carlsen’s turn will be in 2015 and later, but not now.
This is Anand’s time, followed be Levon’s.
okay
What score does Carlsen need to break 2800 after this tournament in live ratings?
Does officially being chess world champion mean anything anymore if Carlsen decides to just be the best by rating (getting ahead of ourselves here a bit), and not care about the championship cycle?
If Carlsen plays this well throughout the tournament, and the next couple of tournaments, what is the quickest path to a match between him and either Topalov, Kramnik or Anand? Or are these matches only for the boys who play by the bully’s rules?
I don’t believe Carlsen would quite attain #1 status if he beats Topalov in two days time. He’d go up about 5 points and Topalov would drop about 5 points but that would still leave him a point or two behind Topalov. He’d still need to outperform Topalov in the final 4 games of this tournament to overtake him in ranking. Here are the current big five’s live rankings:
Live ratings – updated October 2, 2009
Rank Name Rating Change Games
01 Topalov 2803,8 -9,2 5
02 Carlsen 2791,4 +19,4 5
03 Anand 2788,0 0 0
04 Aronian 2784,2 +11,2 6
05 Kramnik 2772,0 0 0
to Jetze:
two more wins and he will reach 2800, assuming he will not loose.
His current success all due to the red dragon dress he wears.
Carlsen has the best mind in chess helping him. It will be difficult for anyone to stop him because Kasparov is continuing Botvinnik’s legacy by training Carlsen.
People need to calm down about Carlsen. Yes, it is great he is winning. But look at the game. Pretty easy to win when your opponent spends all game shuffling his knights around and forgets to castle (till it’s too late).
One tournament makes no summer, or maybe that was not quite the right allegory 🙂 Ah well, it is all a bit over the top at the moment – newspapers in Norway are getting carried away (and given that chess is a non-sport in Norway that is saying something).
However Magnus is young, he has had good tournaments before, he needs to prove that he can sustain his level for extended periods of time (e.g. next year). His performance this tournament makes me proud as a Norwegian, but he needs to keep it up for some time to be called “great” I think.
I think it’s quite impressive.
But doesn’t his opponents seem a bit intimidated?
There’s a lot of psykology in chess…
Why should we calm down? Carlsen is playing wonderful chess and the fact that the Norwegian newspapers are writing about it is good for chess, isn’t it? Kasparov was bemoaning this fact after his exhibition match.
Nice job by magasparov! i want one of thoses suits though much better, so i can look like Bruce Lee!!! Susan since fide wont give the Africans decent ratings i think we have decide to “ignore” their EGO list! haha. So i guess im gunna have to beat their “elite” gms with a low rating just like i did on ICC!! hehe.They funny!
Lionel, you lay down brotha!
Dynomite!