Standings after 9 rounds:
| 1. | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2772 | 7 | |||||||||||||
| 2. | Topalov, Veselin | g | BUL | 2813 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| 3-4. | Wang Yue | g | CHN | 2736 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 3-4. | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2742 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 5-6. | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2762 | 3½ | |||||||||||||
| 5-6. | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2757 | 3½ |
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Yeah, he won, but today he was no better than the last placed Radjabov?? What kind of sport is this?
Last place Rajabov?? In case you don’t know, Rajabov is a top 10 player in the world, it is very hard to beat a top 10 player in the world in the game of chess.
“Yeah, he won, but today he was no better than the last placed Radjabov?? What kind of sport is this?”
In which sports do the highest ranked sportsmen and women ALWAYS win? Must be extremely boring sports.
This is more related to my previous post in a previous news on this tournament, but I am now officially also a fan of Volokitin (though I had remembered him from before, from interesting play): He played the last days in the European team something twice the dutch with a 2-0 score! 🙂
So, Carlsen, Morozevich and Volokitin will fight for the WC after Anand and Topalov have had their duel. 🙂
You’ve just made a great point, mate! Congratulations on your wisdom!
We need straight thinking minders to straighten out the ones who went astray.
‘In case you don’t know, Rajabov is a top 10 player in the world,’
Sorry mate, Radjabov is maybe top ten – BY RATING only. By strength, with Anand being the strongest, Radjabov fares much, much lower. Carlsen, too, for that matter. Am I in the wrong?
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uppirroNow, with the tournament victory allready secured, he can play absolutely without compromise against Jakovenko.
Let’s see what kind of game Magnus will come up with tomorrow with the white pieces.
I think he wil not disapoint…
“Sorry mate, Radjabov is maybe top ten – BY RATING only. By strength, with Anand being the strongest, Radjabov fares much, much lower. Carlsen, too, for that matter. Am I in the wrong?”
Yes,you are “in the wrong”..
Sorry mate, Radjabov is maybe top ten – BY RATING only. By strength, with Anand being the strongest, Radjabov fares much, much lower. Carlsen, too, for that matter. Am I in the wrong?
With all due respect, I think you are in the wrong. With all due respect to Anand, he became the WC in a very chaotic state of the chess world. He deserved it under the circumstances.
Having said that, if there would be a classic style, in the form of what it used to be (like when Bobby Fisher became the WC), I have some serious doubts which one (Anand or Carlsen) would get further (if both would have to play to get among the best 8, then matches to get to play with the world champ). I am not even saying that for sure Carlsen would get further, but I don’t see any obvious advantage to Anand (at THIS point of time) either.
Anand is a great chess player.
Carlsen is a great chess player.
Only an honest match against each other could really tell which is better.
All hail Magnus!
Magnus rules. He will be world champ, more likely sooner than later
I really wish Carlsen was playing Anand for the Championships. I am a fan of Anand but would not feel too bad if if the result went either way. But Topalov? He leaves a bad taste in my mouth! ugggh.
“Sorry mate, Radjabov is maybe top ten – BY RATING only. By strength, with Anand being the strongest, Radjabov fares much, much lower. Carlsen, too, for that matter. Am I in the wrong?”
You’re probably wrong, but no one can disprove that, cause you just pulled that ridiculous statement out of your a**
“Yeah, he won, but today he was no better than the last placed Radjabov?? What kind of sport is this?”
What a ridiculous statement: Did you expect Carlsen to go all out for a win with the black pieces when he only needed a draw in order to win the tournament? (and get more prize money). Carlsen chose the most rational approach and you can’t blame him for that.
If you want to see Magnus going for the kill, then wait until tomorrow: I can promise you that Magnus will try very hard to beat Jakovenko in order to reach 2800 ELO.
‘I can promise you that Magnus will try very hard to beat Jakovenko in order to reach 2800 ELO.’
Magnus will satisfy homself with a quick draw tomorrow. Mark my words. If he plays more moves, its because they agreed to do so, because of the rules breaking which may result in harsh punishments to both of them and their coaches, both finacial, moral and physical.
(and get more prize money)
He doesn’t need money. He’s as ric as Rockafellaw was.
‘Magnus will try very hard to beat Jakovenko’
He can’t beat Jakowenko. Why not? Because Jakowenko’s trainer Alex Nikitin will not allow it.
I doubt Magnus would make a clean sweep if simuled against all the bloggers in here.
What facts support the fact that millions of yuans have been spent during these two weeks?
‘Rajabov is a top 10 player in the world’
Top ten in US terms means NOTHING. US values only the #1, all else is pizza delivery.
‘Rajabov is a top 10 player in the world’
Being top ten, he would never be sent to the Moon for an intergalactical match, as he would have low chances of winning a medal, as compared to the top 9.
‘Yeah, he won, but today he was no better than the last placed Radjabov?? What kind of sport is this?’
It chess!!! Anyone can beat anyone! And everyone can lose to anyone! As long as the mood is good.
‘it is very hard to beat a top 10 player in the world in the game of chess.’
It is very hard to beat a 2250 nowadays also.
Without Viktor and Anatoly and Gary this tournament is not popular.
Can someone organize simul between Magnis and top 20 arbiters? I am sure they know endgames better than him and would put up a strong display if not gotten checkmated by then.
Women can beat men in chess. Men can beat boys. Boys lose to girls.
Magnus needs a 2-month rest now. Then play again, against the same crowd. Then soon pass 2900 mark. Then prove to Rybka he is no Kasparov.
For all still in doubt, proof lies near, after just a click away, all is clear:
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Viswanathan+Anand&word2=Magnus+Carlsen
People don’t have an “infinite capacity” for anything, chess either, so I think that if we start picking apart this tournament, it will go on for a while. But I like it anyway.
I remember watching parts of the Fischer/Spassky match on TV – one fo the stations in NYC ran hours of it, with commentary from some local players. I realized how hard it must be to be on TV, since at one point all of these guys proposed a terrible next move for one of the players – it would have cost him the game almost immediately – and they didn’t see it. At first I thought they were “dopes”, but then I figured out that they were very stressed and just couldn’t think. They got better as time went on, as I recall.
This article by Mr. Szalay need be stored for future generations:
What a piece of Cold War nostalgia! Fused together by their similar names, through four marathon matches over four years, they were like Siamese twins. Karpov and Kasparov. Kasparov and Karpov. So for a schoolboy of the 1980s, to see their names paired again in Spain—where they played their final world championship match in 1987—was a Proustian experience.
Etc.
New scandal in Nanjing:
At two in the morning she summoned the hotel doctor, who diagnosed chicken pox. Chief Arbiter Ignatius Leong decided that WGM Batkhuyag Mungutuul of Mongolia could continue playing, in an isolated room, with a face mask and sergical gloves.
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Oh, my goodness! They have an FM commenting games in Nanjing!! With all the IMs and GMs in the world reading the nonsense.
A lot of ridicuolous patzer comments here =)
People who think that FMs can’t comment on GM games are dead wrong, IMO.
The GM is strong because he sees good moves in a limited time period. Once he has played the moves, weaker players can divine their meaning.
It’s anti-intellectual in the extreme to say that only top level players can annotate top games.
It’s really absurd—it’s like saying that only Stephen Hawking can explain one of his own papers.
A good FM understands almost all of the principles that a GM plays by; with a computer to aid his analysis, he can be quite a good annotator.
Number One in the world is TOPALOV!