The voting for the Chess Oscar has concluded and Anand has won it for the 5th time in his illustrious career.
The first place costs 13 points, second place – 11 points, third place – 9 points, fourth place – 7 points, fifth place – 6 points, etc. The player who collects the greatest number of points wins the Chess Oscar 2007.
Nominated players
Evgeny Alekseev
Vishy Anand – 1st place
Levon Aronian
Wang Yue
Boris Gelfand
Alexander Grischuk
Vassily Ivanchuk
Gata Kamsky – 3rd place
Magnus Carlsen
Sergey Karjakin
Vladimir Kramnik – 2nd place
Peter Leko
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Alexander Morozevich
Teimour Radjabov
Peter Svidler
Veselin Topalov
Ivan Cheparinov
Alexei Shirov
Dmitry Jakovenko
Source: http://www.64.ru/
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
And the Chess Oscar goes to: Anand….for being the best DRAW MASTER in the world!!
lame, lame, lame
“lame, lame, lame”
and where is your Oscar schwanz-lieber?
Hmmmmmm, who is giving awards for being the #1 at drawing games??
Anand drew a few games at the end of a tournament to clinch first place – a sensible tournament tactic.
Kramnik (Drawnik) sets out to deliberately draw (eg Petroff) at least 50% of his games no matter what the tournament situation.
What is it with these Kramnik clowns? Why are they such sore losers?
Win with Grace, Lose with Dignity!, Susan says.
Anand has won the Oscar 5 times; Kramnik only 2.
Guess who’s going to win in October!
Kramnik will crush Anand to oblivion in October. No doubt about that. Whoever thinks otherwise, is clueless.
Remember it will be a match….not a tournament.
Yeah, that’s what they said regarding Fischer until he started winning matches 6-0.