Final standings:
1 Ivanchuk Vassily 2740 UKR * * 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 8,0
2 Topalov Veselin 2767 BUL 0 ½ * * ½ ½1 1 1 0 1 1 6,5
3 Radjabov Teimour 2751 AZE 0 ½ ½ ½ * * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 5,5
4 Cheparinov Ivan 2695 BUL 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ * * 1 1 ½ ½ 4,0
5 Bu Xiangzhi 2708 CHN 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 * * ½ ½ 3,0
6 Aronian Levon 2763 ARM 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * * 3,0
What is your impression of this tournament? What was the biggest surprise and what was the biggest shock?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
The biggest surprise has got to be Ivanchuk winning by such a large score. The biggest shock must certainly be Topalov’s loss to Bu.
it is of course gratifying that he was able to cap his earlier efforts, which were spectacular whether or not he won.
Ivanchuk played well enough, but his performance must be judged in view of the weak play by everyone else except for Topalov and perhaps Radjabov.
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IVANCHUK GETTING +6
Levon Aronian 🙁
In the end Ivanchuk did twice as well as Topalov from 50%- +6 against +3!
The great Ivanchuk is less than another such tournament away from world number 1 and 2800 now! Finally he wins another major!
Ivanchuk at his best is the best player in the world- I have always thought so- and ask Kasparov about it!
Ivanchuk could yet become world champion- he is the same age as Anand- they both have years left.
When was the last time someone won a supertournament with atleast 80%?
At San Luis Topalov scored just 71%! I think that we will have to go back to Kasparov to find an example (did he do one since Karpov’s 11/13 at Linares 1994? I am not sure)
Ivanchuk. But it’s never enough to be good – you have to be lucky too, and Chucky benefitted from some BuBus
and blunders. Just like the World Cup of Soccer – seven or eight teams are good enough to win, but you can be taken down by a lucky deflection,
a red card, a weird bounce of the ball off the pitch.
Aronian way off form. Used to be known for being relaxed…why would he get uptight at this point in his career?
Palestine can be free any time. Just has to accept Israel’s right to exist.
Ivanchuck has been a great player for a long time….so I was not surprised…perhaps a little…and pleasantly.
Topa was Topa..Bu was Bu…everything else seemed noemal…but I was a little surprised by Aronians lack of resistance.
Mike Magnan
The biggest shoch was Toparinov. I’m glad this split personality couldn’t cope with Chucky!!!
Former no. 2 of the world people, behind Kasparov. No surprize there!
I think it is really a scandal that Cheparinov gave away two points to Ivanchuk, which enabled him to win the tournament!! :))
This is irony aimed at all who cry ‘cheating!’, obviously. Topalov had his usual strong performance (6.5/10 has always been enough to win a major tournament), but Ivanchuk was simply outstanding! Kudos to both great players for a very entertaining tournament!
The disappointment of the tournament is of course Aronian… I don’t think such outbursts of helplessness are the mark of a future world champion…
Whit this result Ivanchuk is aplying to be on the list of all the great chessplayers that happend not to be world champions – like Korchnoi, Larsen, Bronstein, etc.
I bet Aronian will come back soon, for example in Sotschi or then in Dresden.
Remember my words!
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I considered Aronian as a bit overrated player and this sort of confirms it.
Now if Cheparinov were to leave Topalov and go to work for Ivanchuk we’d have a real inspiration for conspiracy theories.
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What can I say? Amazing! I hope he has more results like this!
Palestine can be free any time.
that is a lie and you know it, i know it and everyone knows it.
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“Palestine can be free any time.
that is a lie and you know it, i know it and everyone knows it.”
Stop being muslim douche-bags and you might be lucky to have a people, nevermind a country, by the 22nd century.
“Topalov had his usual strong performance (6.5/10 has always been enough to win a major tournament),”
He got 5½ last year. This year was considerably better. If we don’t count games played against his own second, he scored 4½-3½.
I’d like to see a Topalov-Cheparinov match now. I wonder if Topalov would have the #1 rating afterwards?
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This is irony aimed at all who cry ‘cheating!’,
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Pretty weak irony. If you can’t see any difference between Cheparinov losing to an outsider and Cheparinov losing to his countryman and employer, botching a won game in the process, then you’re fooling yourself, my friend.