Standings after 5 rounds:
Rank – Name – Title – Country – Rating – Score – Performance
| 1. | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2772 | 3½ | 2887 | ||||||||||||
| 2-3. | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2756 | 3 | 2813 | ||||||||||||
| 2-3. | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2759 | 3 | 2813 | ||||||||||||
| 4. | Jakovenko, Dmitry | g | RUS | 2760 | 2½ | 2741 | ||||||||||||
| 5. | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2721 | 2 | 2676 | ||||||||||||
| 6. | Naiditsch, Arkadij | g | GER | 2697 | 1 | 2513 |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
I think Carlsen will break 2800 soon.
Carlsen will be the chess King soon.
And who’s now?
I’d love to hear Susan’s prediction for Magnus future since she even coached him a bit when he was little and has played against him as well – my 2 cents is that he will soon (2 years max) be the best Chess player in the world 🙂
I think Carlsen owes Matt Damon some money.
Personally, I think Carlsen is probably already the best player in the world. If Anand and Topalov played the same number of tournaments Carlsen and some of the other top guys play in (Aronian, Shirov, Ivanchuk etc..) there’s no way they could keep their ratings as high as they are. Anand, and especially Topalov, seem to only play in 3 events a year!