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Originally Posted by Plsmrshenry
I'm a total chess noob but starting to get fascinated with the characters at the highest level and enjoy watching high level YouTube videos of quick games and I've been following this tourney daily. Crazy two of the lower rated guys are leading however this seems to be a case where it's less about rating and more of a specific match up thing where Vishy seems to still do quite well. How big of an underdog will any of the potential winners be to Carlson. Like 3-1 dog or is it even worse like 8-1 or higher
Yea I think tournaments like this you can throw the 'ratings' favourites out the window. Plus they are all relatively close in rating
Think all the players will be a dog to carlsen pretty badly. My own personal view is that giri would run him the closest though it would be a draw feast.
He is the kind of guy if he won a game early he is so tough to beat it would be a close match.
However the problem for him is that to qualify you need to win games not draw in the candidate tournament!