By beating Ivanchuk, Carlsen now has the sole lead once again over Karjakin. Nakamura is 1.5 point back of the leader with just 3 rounds to go.
Round 7 results
| GM | Karjakin Sergey | 2776 | ½ | GM | Radjabov Teimour | 2744 |
| GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | 2662 | ½ | GM | Nakamura Hikaru | 2774 |
| GM | Carlsen Magnus | 2815 | 1-0 | GM | Ivanchuk Vassily | 2776 |
Standings after 7 rounds
| 1. | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2815 | 5 |
| 2. | Karjakin, Sergey | g | RUS | 2776 | 4½ |
| 3. | Nakamura, Hikaru | g | USA | 2774 | 3½ |
| 4. | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2744 | 3 |
| 5. | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2776 | 2½ |
| 6. | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | g | ROU | 2659 | 2½ |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
I don’t know whether anyone has yet compared Magnus Carlsen’s playing style to Emanuel Lasker’s style. Both seem to have a nonchalant opening style designed, by hook or by crook, aimed at tempting their opponent into mistakes. Ivanchuk today mananged to avoid most of the tempations, but got ground down eventually by the magnificent Magnus.
If Magnus was so magnificent,he could have demonstrated his magnificence in the candidates i/o chickening out. He certainly lacked confidence there! Doubtless he revels in round robins.
Magnus.
Great show.
Best regards
Stef
To call someone a chicken anonomously on an internet-forum… might that be the work of a chicken?! 😛
Anyways, it might be better to show some more respect. 🙂
Until the candidates become a test of a player’s strength in classical chess it’s understandable that Carlsen or any other player might avoid them.
If you love chess, you should respect it. Distorting it for scheduling concerns cheapens the game and doesn’t assure the best players end up in the finals.
To show such dominant play at only 20 years old deserves our great respect !
Bravo Magnus.
The first anon’s childish gibes are childish. It doesn’t qualify as ‘chickening out’ to abstain from an obviously flawed process.
The proof that the process was flawed is the number of tiebreaker speed games played, compared to the number of proper games at a decent time control.
The candidates match was silly. Magnus a chicken? Stupid comment. Kramnik afterwards indirectly gave Magnus credit for withdrawing the silly event. Kramnik said he played more blitz and rapid in Kazan. That’s a weird way to play to find the finalist in classical chess WC.
Carlsen looks like Mr Spock in that hairdo.