The final round will be very interesting. Topalov still has a shot at a tie for first IF he wins and Ivanchuk loses to Cheparinov.
Topalov, V – Radjabov, T
Cheparinov, I – Ivanchuk, V
Aronian, L – Xiangzhi, Bu
What is your prediction?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
If Cheparinov wins he will give 3 points out of 7 to Topalov. IT would be better to ban seconds in the same tournament for transparency, and more when we talk Topalov.
Topalov & Cheparinov were playing as a team from the start.
That’s why one needs to have a match for deciding the world champion, and not a tournament.
There is nothing wrong if Cheparinov wins tomorrow. Surely he will be highly motivated to win. It is fine and natural and nothing wrong with it.
It was OK for both Topalov and Cheparinov to participate in the same tournament.
As a whole and one round to go, I think it was a successful tournament. Both Ivanchuk and Topalov impressed me.
We can’t judge Cheparinov for losing two games to Topalov. There’s an important strength difference, or is anyone blaming Aronian for also giving 2 points?.
It’s only to be expected for Topalov, Cheparinov and Ivanchuk to play their best in the last round. But by the way Chucky has handled the tournament I do see Topalov catching up with him.
I expect Ivanchuk to hold Cheparinov to a draw, and thus winning all his individual matches 1.5-0.5.
Unlikely.
Cheparinov will try his heart out, that’s for sure, but I think Topa himself doesn’t win his game, so it will be in vane.
Toparinov you mean?
so…
Chepa loses, he loses to help topalov
Chepa wins, he wins to help topalov…
omg…
If Cheparinov wins and Topalov wins and ties the points, Topalov will actually win the tournament having the greater number of wins. He and Ivanchuk both have 5 at the moment by my reckoning.
Am I the only one who reads the tournament regulations???
In case of a tie for the FIRST PLACE between TWO players tie-break matches will be played. First rapid, then blitz, and if there is still no decision a sudden death game will decide.
both Topalov and Cheparinov are cheats and must be banned from chess altogether.
Anybody knows why the organization changed the playing order in the rounds 9 and 10?? Today Ivanchuk should be playing against Radjabov, not Cheparinov!
It smells…like also Cheparinov’s too easy defeats against Topalov (especially the first one, where he almost outplayed his boss, in the second game Topalov played well, but black to loose like that against a Bd2-Grünfeld?!)
Rini Luyks, Portugal
What are you talking about??? they didn’t change anything.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4620
Or are you accusing that ChessBase change it too?
This is the most disgraceful crooked tournament I have ever heard of in my life. This is worse then stealing elections. Outrageous. Only Fide and Danailov could stoop so low.
I hope Chucky wins today and buries Topalov.
Fischer used to complain about the Russians back in his era. Now we have Team Danailov to show the world how to cheat.
Chess will never make the big times unless it can find a way to run honest contests. It is a shame because this is hurting all the Grand Prix tournaments.
I wish people would stop talking about things they know nothing about.
1) Nobody is cheating.
2) They didn’t change anything.
3) What does m-Tel masters have to do with the Grand Prix series?
Sorry, Ebutaljib, but…
Round 1 is the reverse (colours) of round 6, idem for round 2 and 7, round 3 and 8, but round 4 is the reverse of round 10, round 5 of round 9. Why?
Even if it is the regulament, it is strange, no?
Rini Luyks
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The point is that the schedule was fixed BEFORE (way before) the tournament and it wasn’t changed later.
So there is absolutely no ground for any cheating accusations.
“Fischer used to complain about the Russians back in his era. Now we have Team Danailov to show the world how to cheat.”
Yeah, but Fischer was wrong. He accused Korchoi of throwing games, and nobody believes that happened. Even Fischer seems to have quietly changed his mind years later.
This is another black eye for Bulgarian chess, to be sure, though. Even if nothing wrong happened, the devil is in the appearances. Having 20% of a top player’s result consisting of games with his second looks horribly bad, if the second should lose both games. Even if nobody did anything wrong, it looks bad.
Another Danailov Disaster.