International Chess Invitational Tournament in Nanjing
The Category 21 (2751.6) Pearl Spring Super GM Tournament will take place from December 10 to 22, 2008 in Nanjing, China.
Who is the smartest person?
This is a question with no standard answer. But we assume that everybody will agree that the chess grandmasters are some of the smartest people. On the 10th of next month, 6 top international chess grandmasters will gather in Nanjing and show their intelligence through chess art. At the same time, they will contend for a giant prize of €250,000 in total. The champion will win €80,000 and the last one will also be awarded €20,000.
The current tournament is organized by Municipal People’s Government of Nanjing and Chess & Cards Administration Center of General Administration of Sport of China; undertaken by People’s Government of Pukou District, Nanjing, and Administration of Sport of Nanjing; sponsored by our newspaper, Jiangsu Kanion Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Mundell International University of Entrepreneurship. The event will take place in Mingfa Pearl Spring Hotel, in the scenic spot of Pukou. The opening and closing Ceremony will be held on 10th and 22nd of December and the fixture is from the 11th to 21st.
Players participating the event are: Veselin Topalov from Bulgaria (Elo rating 2791, ranked first in the world); Vassily Ivanchuk from Ukraine (Elo rating 2786, raked third in the world); Levon Aronian from Armenia (Elo rating 2757, ranked seventh in the world); Sergei Movsesian from Slovakia (Elo rating 2732, ranked thirteenth in the world); Peter Svidler from Russia (Elo rating 2727, ranked seventeenth in the world); Bu Xiangzhi from China (Elo rating 2714, ranked twenty-sixth in the world).
Official website: http://www.chess-pearlspring.com/yindex.htm
Topalov will win it.
Wow, Chucky really has a busy schedule. Dresden Olympiad, then Benidorm, now Nanjing. Does that guy ever sleep?!
Who is the smartest person?
Grandmasters are certainly intelligent, but smart? If measuring in money earned, they are not exactly in the top..
I’ve asked this question before and I am asking again! Has anybody wondered why Wang Yue, China’s top-rated GM and no. 9 in the world at 2750 was not invited to this tournament?
Wang Yue was their best chance. Bu is going to get licked by the other super-GMs
I think Wang Yue plays in Elista Grand Prix.
Few would agree that chess grandmasters are the smartest people.
There are harder games than chess, so by any game-centric standard, expert Go players are the smartest in the world.
The problem is that game players are not ‘creators’ synthesising something in an ‘open world’. Rather, they are only analysing in a closed world.
So I think I’d rate authors, scientists and philosophers as smarter than Chess GMs for starters.
There’s always the argument that GMs are merely victims of their own specific talent, one that does unfortunately does not have a great market – and that this is pragmatically not a smart thing to do.
Where there’s money, there is Danailov….
….. and where there’s Danailov, there’s trouble brewing!
where there are Bulgarians, there is suspicion someone stepped in dog crap… or didn’t take a bath.
“Wow, Chucky really has a busy schedule. Dresden Olympiad, then Benidorm, now Nanjing. Does that guy ever sleep?!”
Well, he has to play as much as he can before geting a 2 year ban.