Round 6 pairings
Van Wely, L. – Aronian, L.
Caruana, F. – Carlsen, M.
Hou, Y. – Wojtaszek, R.
Jobava, B. – So, W.
Radjabov, T. – Giri, A.
Ivanchuk, V. – Saric, I.
Vachier-Lagrave, M. – Ding, L.
Challengers Group
Round 6 – Friday the 16th
Wei, Y. – Sevian, S.
Klein, D. – Gunina, V.
l’ Ami, E. – Potkin, V.
Haast, A. – Saleh, S.
Shankland, S. – Michiels, B.
Dale, A. – Van Kampen, R.
Navara, D. – Timman, J.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Nakamura and So will make the US #1 in the world.
#1 in terms of defeat.
Both of these guys are pretenders who have never won a MAJOR tournament to date. Fail.
Double Fail for you too! Get some work & start to have some life instead of spending time commenting here always lol
What’s a major tournament Jack ? The Capablanca Memorial avg 2700 and invitational Masters in Italy avg 2700,both won by Wesley So !! Let us not forget the Tata Steel the TM that is now being played, classical chess, with black pieces he held Magnus Carlson to a draw! Carlson commented that he was outplayed in the middle game by So, he had to steer it to a draw!
Draws will not win So this tournament.
You will be surprised what draws can do! He does not have to win the TM, but place in the top 4, inch his ELO up, get invited to more elite TMs, remember he is 21yrs old and Girl Is 20. Wesley just turned professional, Giri has been playing for Holland for awhile, supported by the government and wealthy parents has a head start, being in Europe.
So drew with WGM Yifan and you are so proud of that too.
anyone that plays in tata are all good, otherwise it will not be that prestigious. even carlsen can be beaten.. dont underestimate yifan, just because wesley drew her does not lessen wesley nor hou yi fan.. hou yi fan has beaten giri twice last year and hou yifan beat anand last year tournament as well
Are you sexist? Yifan has Mens grandmaster title, look at Giris record against her! She is edging towards 2700 ELO! Will be in the top 50 in the world(Mens) soon. Give her some credit ! She beats strong GMs all the time. She is still young.Yes l am proud of Wesley So,we all are here in Minnesota.We all should be in the U.S.A.
Wesley So is a turncoat. He is now managed by Lotis Key.