Anand, Kramnik, Morozevich, Topalov, Carlsen, and Ivanchuk. They are the top 6 players in the world. In your opinion, which one is the most exciting player? Which two would you like to see in a head to head match?
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Morozevich – Carlsen
Topalov – Morozevich
Ivanchuk-Topalov would be exciting too. I wonder how Morozevich would do in a relatively long match- he hasn’t done any has he?
Strictly speaking, Ivanchuk in your list is not top 6 currently (he is 2740) but is almost sure to be top 6 in the next list (hopefully he won’t collapse in form..)
Moro-Ivanchuk would also be interesting
I would like to see Moro-Anand! How’s that for a WC match! But all of these people bring their own excitement to a match.
To anonymous #4,
http://chess.liverating.org/
That list is what is used today as a reference for ratings (it’s updated every day if any of the 2700’s play)
Ivanchuk-Moro for me.
Also, check out this cool graph at Chess.liverating.org:
http://chess.liverating.org/toplist.php?id=2008052901&graph=1
You can clearly see that the top 6 is in a league of their own.
Moro and Topalov, if only because they’re the two least likely to draw. Accordingly to chessgames.com, they’ve gone head-to-head on 27 occasions and only drawn 6 times. Topalov has 11 wins and Moro 10.
Morozevich is the most exciting player. A Morozevich v. Carlsen match would be exciting.
Match with any two of these players would be interesting.
Regarding the live rating talk- it is not official just showing how players stand if they were to play no more games until the next rating list. It is really ‘virtual’ ratings- just someone calculating them everyday.
Still Ivanchuk is not top 6 and Morozevich is not number 2 in the world on the official list- and other games may affect whether they are in the July list. Highly likely for Ivanchuk to be top 6 as I think he won’t flop in Aerosvit, and reasonable chance but not certain for Morozevich to be number 2.
That list updated everyday is interesting but it is not, I repeat, anything but interim calculations.
Anand and anybody else
the live rating list is doing what FIDE should be doing but apparently doesn’t have the initiative or ambition to – give us real-time information – in our instant electronic age there is no excuse for any time lag, let alone months. Real time is real, anything else is meaningless.
Kramnik v Carlsen would make the best as far as match-play goes, IMO. Recently, Ivanchuk & Morozevich have had great tournament streaks similar to the Anand of the 1990s. Kramnik has also said that he enjoys the Moro style of gambit-play, which might make for a good pair-up, were the youngster to decline a potential future match vs the slayer of Kasparov, which Anand never managed in World Championship match-play. Replace Topalov with Shirov, Kamsky & Leko, & one would have another wonderful AVRO tournament set up.
I cannot believe that nobody has specifically mentioned over the others the match we will already be having – Anand-Kramnik.
This is the match I want to see most as they are currently the two strongest active players in the world. It is a match that should have happened long ago.
[Not that Kramnik is legally entitled to this match. This will be his third challenge without ever having played for them a single qualifying game!]
Next year, the match I would certainly most want to see is Carlsen vs the winner of Anand-Kramnik.
Such a pity Carlsen didn’t win FIDE’s stupid ‘qualifying’ knockout LOTTERY. Topalov-Kamsky or Topalov-Shirov is such a waste of time.
The World Champion for the forseeable future will almost certainly be one of Carlsen, Anand, Kramnik; with an outside chance being given to Topalov only because he is virtually guaranteed a match with Anand or Kramnik next year.
I do not believe in Morozevich or Ivanchuk.
Topalov is the most exciting player. Unfortunately, he lacks a certain necessary degree of soundness and freedom from blunders.
Kramnik is far and away the most boring, negative and unenterprising, certainly with black.
I agree entirely with Anon 7:01 about the Live Rating list. Much thanks is due to Frogbert for producing it.
That FIDE cannot or will not do this shows how pathetic the outfit is.
Even frogbert can not keep up with all games everywhere so that the live rating list is daily but neccessarily not perfect. You need some lag to collect all the data.
For example notice how Judit Polgar has gone from 0 to 3 games in 1 day due to frogbert missing an event she played last year.
Anand – Ivanchuk!
re live rating ability to keep up-to-date.
FIDE could easily make results reporting within a period of time a requirement – software can handle the rest. all it takes is the will and getting the(ir) buts out of the way.