What is your prediction? Can Leko add another big title to his resume?
Final Round 7 Pairings:
Peter Leko (4.0)- Arkadij Naiditsch (3.0)
Ian Nepomniachtchi (3.5) – Jan Gustafsson (3.5)
Vassily Ivanchuk (3.0) – Vladimir Kramnik (3.0)
Loek van Wely (1.0) – Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (3.0)
Standings going into the final round:
1. Leko, Peter g HUN 2741
2-3. Nepomniachtchi, Ian g RUS 2634 3½
2-3. Gustafsson, Jan g GER 2603 3½
4-7. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2752 3
4-7. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2740 3
4-7. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2788 3
4-7. Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2624 3
8. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2677 1
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Leko will win clear first. Nepom and Gustaf will take a quick draw to share second.
I think Van Wely will come in last, even if he wins. 🙁
Van Wely. The loser everyone loves.
van wely what is wrong with that guy? how does he stay at high 2600 even w/so many loses lately? leko crushes nepo. surprise win leko over chucky. gusti great tourney. kramnik…yikes. anand must be licking his chops. kamsky beats topalov and then beats an exhausted anand. wc returns to u.s. sky bleeds. fire and brimstone. cats and dogs, living together.
Leko has become such a choker that you just never know.
High time Van Wely was retired from these events.
Let’s hope that Ivanchuk will take advantage of the opportunity to drop Kramnik down to sixth on the Live List!
High time for anoynymous to shut up, or at least make himself known making bold statements.
Yep, Leko, the fighting machine, will win this one with a margin to spare.
If Ivanchuk wins he will be second on the virtual list, with Kramnik in 6th!
Well, that’s a bit rich – one anoynymous (oh dear, didn’t spell that right, did I?) telling another to make himself known!
Freudian mistyping indeed, for Anonymous could well be called An(n)oynymous.
He who makes the bold statements should make himself known, not I who makes no personal claims.
What bold statements?
For anyone who has been reasonably observant, they are obvious and natural comments.
Apparently Leko just won the tournament. Congratulations, he really needed this win.
WHOO-HOO!! Kramnik lost!
Wonder if ‘Anoynymous’ 3:27AM still thinks my comments were too ‘bold’?
Of course he thinks so, but he/I was referring to call Van Wely out of such tournaments. I bet he/you replayed all his games eagerly.