Round 7 results:
Carlsen, Magnus – Alekseev, Evgeny 0-1
Dominguez Perez, Leinier – Pelletier, Yannick 1-0
Onischuk, Alexander – Bacrot, Etienne 0-1
Standings after 7 rounds:
1. Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2708 5
2. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2775 4½
3. Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2708 4½
4. Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2691 3½
5. Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2670 3
6. Pelletier, Yannick g SUI 2569 ½
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Carlsen pushed too hard for a win, eventually losing. Great fighting spirit though…
Carlsen finally got a taste of his own medicine: Exploit time advantage, play a drawn position, await the opponents blunder, execute opponent.
Probably he has started to believe the mythology tha has been repeated all over – that he is unbeatable in endgames etc. If so, this loss was exactly what Carlsen needed.
Well, he had 45 games in a row without losing, so it only shows he’s human.
Carlsen is human?
Carlsen is machine!
Pelletier has 0.5/7, Carlsen got 2/2 against him.
But against the remaining players he got just 50% (2.5/5) so far.
When he traded queens I almost fainted……he was being quite obnoxious about the position before that….poking and prodding.
Hey thats his style….Happened to Fischer sometimes too. It’s not the end of the world.
It was a pretty tense game before he did that….
First of all: Congratulations to Alexeev for winning this great game. -His opening choice caught Carlsen by surprise. -He equalized early on, played very accurate during the midgame. -And when ‘hell broke loose’ in the end game, he kept cool and won. Truly a great game by Alexeev!
Second, the honors goes also the Carlsen for playing such an exciting game. Rather than an easy draw he put the table on fire in the end game with so litle time left on each clock. Of course he knew the risk involved, but still he dared.
His remarkable will to win is the stuff of a world champion. Within a few years he will also have gained the skill to win end games like this.
Thanks for a thrilling end game. -Chess doesn’t get more entertaining than this!
Yeah, that was a great game. Was wondering why Carlsen exchanged queens as the black pawns seemed (and eventually proved) more dangerous than white’s, however, Carlsen took a great deal of his few remaining minutes and I suspected he had looked so deep into the endgame he had figured out that he would at least not lose. Nice to see that even he can miss something…
Dominguez pulls out another win in a flat-out draw end-game vs Pelletier this time. This kid will be in the 2009’s top 10 for sure. I’m expecting a great match vs Carlsen on wednesday. Should he keep the trend, he might be the surprise winner of the event. I’d say 2 pts in the next three games should crown him.
any thoughts?
beautiful game !!! congratulations, what a show !!!
Carlsen is chess history in the making…
Alekseev proves that there are many very talented players these days beside the supertalents Carlsen and Karjakin. So isn’t it thrilling to be witness of this contemporary process of chess?
I am german and will be live there:
– Coming weekend in Mainz (Rapid Anand, Carlsen and others)
– One Day in Bonn in October (Match Worl Champiuon Anand-Kramnik)
– Five Days in November in Dresden
(Chess Olympics featuring everybody including women like Hou Yifan and Humpy Coneru).
WOW!
Sincerly,
okay
Under normal circumstances Magnus wouldn’t press that hard for a win, because it was a drawn game and he didn’t make any progress for quite a while. But he really wanted to win since he’d then pass 2800 and Anand on the live rating list.
I’m not sure why he exchanged queens, because black got a small advantage after that. After a few inaccuracies in time trouble, he ended up with a lost position.
But he showed great fighting spirit.
And those people who simply say that Magnus is playing to exploit time advantage, don’t get it: He plays to win, and he puts his opponent under pressure.
Magnus is a practical player, and opponents often find themselves in time trouble because he often plays difficult or challenging moves. I think it’s ironic that people’s time control problems are used as an argument against Magnus: After all, it’s not his fault that his opponents spends so much time.
I still think Magnus will win this tournament, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he beats Dominguez tomorrow. Magnus is good at recovering from losses.
Dominguez finished Alekseev.
Bizzare support for Carlsen…when he pushes hard and wins, everybody goes gaga over his ability to push and confuse the opponent.
So, when he finds someone who doesnt crack under pressure, he he loses with the same strategy.
Carlsen has talent but he has won more by others mistakes vs. by creatign new novelites that players like Kasparov, Anand or Fischer have done.
“Carlsen has talent but he has won more by others mistakes vs. by creatign new novelites that players like Kasparov, Anand or Fischer have done”.
– Come on! You can only fairly and reasonably judge Carlsen with the likes of Kasparov, Anand, Fischer and whoever else on their games BEFORE they were 18 years old. (And in Bobby Fischer’s case don’t forget nearly all of his opponents were relatively weak.)