Round 1 pairings
GM Caruana, Fabiano vs GM Anand, Viswanathan
GM Bacrot, Etienne vs GM Baramidze, David
GM Aronian, Levon vs GM Carlsen, Magnus
GM Adams, Michael vs GM Naiditsch, Arkadij
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Grenke Classic: Aronian v Carlsen, Caruana v Anand
These cowards are afraid to invite Wesley So and Lotis Key. They’re afraid of the American genius.
If you’re comparing Wesley So with the elite, considering him as equal to the established elite players like Anand, Kramnik, Aronian, not to speak of Caruana and Carlsen, you obviously do not have a clue. He has achieved nothing yet. I hope (for you) he develops to an elite player. But objectively considering his results, he will suffer lots of losses when confronted with the elite. I would love to see So’s results over an one year period playing (lets say) four games against 5 elite players. I bet he needs Prozac and starts to dream of his good times, when he managed to stay undefeated 50+ games…against the ‘less gifted’ chess GM’s… Yeah, crying like a Naka!
This is the kind of line up Wesley is trying to avoid to preserve his undeserve rating. He is good playing 2500 rated players and after a good rest, can face all the exhausted elite players and if he wins, brags that he is among one of the best.
Karjakin, Negi, Carlsen are the top three youngest grand masters. These 3 players acquired their norms playing in Europe which is very competetive and tough place to be. Wesley, #10 on the list, got his playing in Asia which is not too strong compared to Europe. Yet his fanatical fans were so excited that he moved to #7, at age 21, in rankings. Now they are declaring that he is the best among the elites. Hogwash.
that is why he moved to u.s so he can play more in europe to slay the russians and the europeans!! at age 16 he humiliated ivanchuk and kamsky at world cup these 2 were 2700 plus at those time!! dont worry wesley will make his presence at european tournaments