Standings after round 7
1. Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2710) 4.5, Teimour Radjabov
(Azerbaijan, 2746) 4.5
3. Alexander Onischuk (USA, 2650) 4, Judit Polgar (Hungary, 2707) 4
5. Boris Avrukh (Israel, 2645) 3.5, Bu Xianghzi (China, 2685) 3.5, Alexander Grischuk (Russia, 2726) 3.5, Yannick Pelletier (Switzerland, 2583) 3.5
9. Alexander Motylev (Russia, 2648) 2.5
10. Loek van Wely (Netherlands, 2679) 1.5
8th round – Wednesday August 1st
Teimour Radjabov – Alexander Motylev
Alexander Onischuk – Boris Avrukh
Alexander Grischuk – Judit Polgar
Yannick Pelletier – Bu Xianghzi
Loek van Wely – Magnus Carlsen
What are your predictions?
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Radja will win.
Winning today: Judith and Teimor
others matches: draw
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The camera shot came out very poorly, do you agree?
When did JP’s ‘winning’ turn into ‘v likely losing’? She is 2P down and will do well to hold this. Win for Grischuk I think.
Yes – after the R-exchange and 52.Kf2, JP is ‘lost in 31’: Grischuk has to bring it in though.
AG-JP … 61.Kf3?? and it’s now a theoretical draw
AG-JP: they can agree a draw. The gP is lost and then the bN takes the fP to leave a KNK draw.