GM Aronian – GM Carlsen
GM Shirov – GM Adams
GM Gelfand – GM Kasimdzhanov
GM Bacrot – GM Kamsky
GM Grischuk – GM Malakhov
GM Ponomariov – Rublevsky
GM J. Polgar – GM Bareev
GM Leko – Gurevich
Which are the top 3 most intriguing matchups? Aronian – Carlsen? Bacrot – Kamsky? Shirov – Adams? Polgar – Bareev? Gelfand – Kasimdzhanov?
Which 4 will advance to Mexico City? Here is the official website of the 2007 World Championship in Mexico City.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
The most intriguing match up is Reblevsky-Ponomariov. It’s the one that is most difficult to pick a winner. I can’t help but to think of this in terms of Rublevsky: if he’s on, he wins; if not, he loses.
I hope Rublevsky is on, because when he is he is a lot of fun to watch.
I have no second or third in that department.
Other predictions:
Aronian over Magnus
Adams over Shirov
Gelfand over Kasimdzhanov
Kamsky over Bacrot
Grischuk over Malakhov
Ms. Polgar over Bareev
Leko over Gurevich
I agree 100% with those predictions but am very much looking forward to aronian carlsen. Can the young maestro pull something special out of the bag?
Niall
All the matches are very intriguing. It will be a fun event to follow!
I hope Judit gets real far this time!!!
….even WINS?!?
that would be amazing!!!! Jutka world champion!! :))
i’d love that!!
Aronian-Carlsen for sure
I think it will be a hard-fought battle and very hard to pick a winner. I’ll give Aronian the slightest edge though but it can go either way.
Shirov over Adams: very interesting and nice match that surely will produce nice attacking games. I predict Shirov will win in his current good form.
This would mean a possible Aronian-Shirov match. Again hard to predict. Shirov has better chances than most people may think and I think he may pull out the big surprise of the tournament.
Ponomariov over Rublevsky
Grishuk over Malakhov. If Grishuk will be on form he may well advance to Mexico and I think he will be and beat Pono in the second round
Kasimdzhanov over Gelfand. I think Kasim will prove yet again that he is an awesome match player and emerge as the winner
Bacrot over Kamsky. I can’t see Kamsky winning although it would be nice to roll back the years.
I predict Kasimdzanov will beat Bacrot in the second round.
Polgar over Bareev, but beware Judit, Evgenij is playing better again and will be a hard nut to crack.
Leko over Gurevich
so Polgar-Leko. Based on Leko’s current poor form I think Judit will win
so my four qualifiers for Mexico are:
Shirov
Grishuk
Kasimdzanov
Polgar
shirov would be interesting.