Round 2
G1 G2 G3 G4 G5 G6 TB Total
Match 1
Aronian Levon (ARM) 1 ½ ½ 2.0
Shirov Alexei (ESP) 0 ½ ½ 1.0
Match 2
Leko Peter (HUN) 1 ½ 1 2.5
Bareev Evgeny (RUS) 0 ½ 0 0.5
Match 3
Grischuk Alexander (RUS) 1 ½ ½ 2.0
Rublevsky Sergei (RUS) 0 ½ ½ 1.0
Match 4
Kamsky Gata (USA) ½ ½ 0 1.0
Gelfand Boris (ISR) ½ ½ 1 2.0
Which match has been most surprising to you so far? Can Shirov, Rublevsky and Kamsky come back from a 2-1 deficit?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
I think Gata will come back. I don’t think so with Shirov and Rublevsky.
Shirov surprises me for the best. I think that even in the games that he lost he is giving Aronian an unexpected at least an equal match if not more. If Shirov can keep this up he may surprise Aronian
I hope Kamsky’s poor preformance in the last game is not a sign for the future. If Kamsky continues in this road it will be a surprise to me as he was the favorite.
Leko’s good shape is also surprising. It seems he is sharp. So dangerous in his way. I thought Leko is drawish and that his position at the top is temporal. But his convincing preformance shows that he belongs there.
None of the results are surprising.
>>I think Gata will come back. I don’t think so with Shirov and Rublevsky.>>
Yeah, they’re not Americans. 🙂
Maybe if they took out citizenship VERY quickly, they might have a chance…
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By Dennis Monokroussos.
Here you can have the Elista games with nice notes by Dennis.
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/files/elista_candidates_2007_rd2_g3.htm
One improtant detail is that Rublevsky and Shirov have 2 white left, while Kamsky has only 1. Though the truth is that given the oppening repertoire of Kamsky, he does not seem to play any better with white. He is becoming (in this respect) a new Morozevich 🙂
Hi,
Gata performance in last game is the surprise for me.
Regards
Pony.
Leko is showing Judit how to crush the Caro Kan. Just incredible that Judit could do nothing against it and Leko makes it look so easy.
The only real surprize must be Gata, but it’s not such a big one, because Gelfand does have quite a solid carreer for many, many years.
That goes as well for Shirov. Anyone who is surprized of him giving Aronian good resistence does him wrong. Shirov played at the top level for many years and although he may have a scrappy record against Kasparov, it was Garry himself who announced him as a big one.
Shirov actually goes for it every game, and was only pushed by Aronian in the last one. Aronian’s win was one in which he had to defend, which he did well of course, but it wasn’t what we call ‘making the game’.
All top class players, don’t get me wrong!
So you think it’s impossible for Bareev to come back from a 2 point deficit? well, i think so too 😛
Shirov will win against Aronian, in a fashion similar to what he did against Adams.
Bareev, Rublevsky and Kamsky will lose and shall be eliminated.
In Mexico, Grischuk, Kramnik and Morozevich will fare miserably.
“Leko’s good shape is also surprising. It seems he is sharp. So dangerous in his way. I thought Leko is drawish and that his position at the top is temporal. But his convincing preformance shows that he belongs there.”
Leko is the real deal. He had beaten Kramnik in their World Chess Championship match in a wonderful Marshall gambit, only to loose the last game and loose the match. What an agony !
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1309482
For his performance against Topalov whom people exagerate a lot, see :
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?yearcomp=exactly&year=&playercomp=either&pid=12290&player=&pid2=12089&player2=&movescomp=exactly&moves=&opening=&eco=&result=