2012 London Chess Classic - Chess and Board Game Strategy

The 2012 London Chess Classic starts tomorrow and should be a fantastic event. I'm excited to watch it. Here's the link to the official website.

http://www.londonchessclassic.com/

It's a 9-round round robin format, where each player plays 8 games and has 1 bye in which they assist in the commentary. Time control is 2 hours for 40 moves, plus 1 hour for 20 moves, followed by 15 mins + a 30 second increment for the remainder of the game. Here's the lineup.

Magnus Carlsen
Levon Aronian
Viswanathan Anand
Vladimir Kramnik
Hikaru Nakamura
Judit Polgar (excited to see her play in a long time control event)
Luke McShane
Gawain Jones

Very much looking forward to this one.

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11-30-2012 , 03:32 PM

heltok

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one win and carlsen gets the highest rating ever?

http://www.2700chess.com/

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12-01-2012 , 07:50 AM

EGarrett

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One game to rule them all! (and piss off Garry Kasparov!)

...let the sweat begin.

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12-01-2012 , 11:47 AM

SavageTilt

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Is it wrong that I'm already sick of Nigel Short?

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12-01-2012 , 03:05 PM

EGarrett

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The only consistent coverage I can find is the live game player at 2700chess.com.

Magnus looks like he's dead-even with McShane, but he's way up on time.

FLAG this fool and let's go to Sizzler.

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12-01-2012 , 03:23 PM

heltok

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http://www.livestream.com/londonches...onchessclassic

is working for me

also:
http://chessbomb.com/site/

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12-01-2012 , 03:51 PM

heltok

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WOW he does it again

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12-01-2012 , 04:05 PM

EGarrett

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12-01-2012 , 04:15 PM

EGarrett

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****, he's only tied it??

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12-01-2012 , 04:43 PM

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Bedreviter

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Originally Posted by heltok

one win and carlsen gets the highest rating ever?

http://www.2700chess.com/

Kasparov had 2855 as his best live-rating, so not quite there yet.

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12-02-2012 , 03:05 PM

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heltok

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this is amazing. how can he squeeze a win from every drawn position?

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12-02-2012 , 09:32 PM

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Montrealcorp

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capablanca ghost o0....

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12-03-2012 , 07:49 AM

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Ajezz

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Haven't followed a tournament for quite some time (I guess Wijk in January was the last) but I think I will follow this one. I'd really like to see Michael Adams to do good, he's one of my favourite players. If he ever writes a book about his best games, I'll buy it instantly.

Also good to see Kramnik and Anand again.

Fun fact: The current Grand Prix tournament in Tashkent is on average 120 Elo points and 4 categories higher rated than London...

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12-03-2012 , 08:28 AM

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Fun fact: The current Grand Prix tournament in Tashkent is on average 120 Elo points and 4 categories higher rated than London...

London average: 2752
Tashkent average: 2747

Does not compute.

Last edited by Vempele; 12-03-2012 at 08:41 AM.

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12-03-2012 , 09:00 AM

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Ajezz

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Sorry, I just looked without thinking at this table, published at chessbase.de (Link):

It says the average rating is 2631 which is obviously wrong. My bad. I should have noticed that, of course.

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12-04-2012 , 02:24 PM

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heltok

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**** just got real

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12-04-2012 , 02:30 PM

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John_Douglas

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Wow, Kudos to Jones for sacking his Queen against Carlsen today. Looks like pretty good compensation too.

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12-04-2012 , 02:39 PM

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wlrs

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Seems like Jones just folded under the pressure caused by the scary h3+Qe3, I doubt the sac is correct enough

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12-04-2012 , 03:48 PM

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Thrilling effort today by Jones, but he just ended up dragging a great white shark into the water.

Carlsen's 3-0 so far is fantastic, and the dispute over the rating record is now completely over. 2857.4. Holy ****.

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12-05-2012 , 03:55 AM

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Originally Posted by SavageTilt

Is it wrong that I'm already sick of Nigel Short?

No, he's annoyingly smug. His columns suck too

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12-05-2012 , 11:50 AM

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EGarrett

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Here is the post-match interview with Carlsen and Gawain Jones.

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12-06-2012 , 11:42 AM

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Ajezz

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Kramnik - McShane, position after 16..Nb3:

Kramnik plays 17. a5!

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12-06-2012 , 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Ajezz

Kramnik - McShane, position after 16..Nb3:

Kramnik plays 17. a5!

I saw this move, but I didn't get the reasoning behind it.

(Good games btw in our games, I got smoked)

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12-06-2012 , 01:37 PM

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heltok

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lol carlsen is soo lucky, this tournament will go to the history ^^

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12-06-2012 , 10:27 PM

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DaMaGor

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Once or twice, it's luck. Again and again, it's skill.

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