The Tal Memorial begins soon, running from June 12-24. The average ELO of the tournament is 2777 and features 7 of the world's top 10 players. Here are the participants.
Time controls are one hour and 40 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for the 20 moves and 15 minutes for the remainder of the game. There is a 30 second increment starting from the first move.
This should really be a great event, lots of exciting players here. Can't wait.
Getting close now, once again no Kramnik and Topalov. I thought we might see them both in Norway but since kramnik pulled out maybe we'll have to wait another 5 years before they play each other in a classical game.
It will be interesting to see if Karjakin and Caruana can continue recent good results and if we get a new 2800 player from this event, or if Carlsen gets revenge after 2nd place in his home country's tournament. I'd back Magnus, I think he's mad :-)
Wow, impressive indeed. I just went and played through his games, they're a lot of fun. Naka plays some pretty eccentric stuff in blitz. Great for watching.
Did y'all see the game Carlsen-Kramnik, 1-0 today? Just incredible. Magnus was again able to win what appeared to be a drawn position, this time against Kramnik. I can hardly imagined the skill required to win a position like that against someone that strong. He's amazing.
Did y'all see the game Carlsen-Kramnik, 1-0 today? Just incredible. Magnus was again able to win what appeared to be a drawn position, this time against Kramnik. I can hardly imagined the skill required to win a position like that against someone that strong. He's amazing.
No. I did not see that game. The game *I* saw was the dead draw with no play left in the position that prompted me to turn chessbomb off and get back to work without bothering to watch the conclusion. I figured I'd pop back on at my lunch break, verify the 1/2-1/2 result, and then post something snarky about the semi-controversy of the Candidate's tie-break not being resolved today.
Well said. I just love that he plays pretty much whatever opening he wants, not hardly any deep sharp prep lines, then goes on to outplay every top player in the world from an equal position.
Kramnik looks to be in poor form this tournament. Today he had a better position against Nakamura, with an extra pawn and evaluated as a +0.94 after move 23. As I type this move 40 was just played and the position is now evaluated as -1.37 for Nakamura. Not sure what is going on with Kramnik right now.
I was playing chess all day, and just now checked the round 3 results. Caruana beat Carlsen? With BLACK? What happened there??? Also, Fabiano is now up to 2796.6 in the live ratings, one more win away from cracking 2800.
it looks like he beat anand and carlsen with black and lost to gelfand with white.
ok im a chess newb but i watched a daniel king video on you tube on caruana v gelfand. it was a Najdorf and caruana just collapsed. caruana made some pretty bad moves starting at like move 26. he went h4 which allowed gelfand to close up the postion, then he avoided a queen exchange and just let black f his day up.
naka stuck it to vlade. i like naka since he plays online and is american. i would say he is my favorite player. i think naka had a heroic effort vs vlad in the past olympiad iirc and that is when he became my favorite.
Yeah Caruana's loss to Gelfand was really bad. Cliffs of the game:
1) Go into a long theoretical line of the English Attack
2) Get nothing out of the opening as White
3) Fall apart
haha
