5th round (July 28th)
Yannick Pelletier – Teimour Radjabov
Loek van Wely – Alexander Grischuk
Magnus Carlsen – Alexander Onischuk
Bu Xiangzhi – Alexander Motylev
Judit Polgar – Boris Avrukh
Standings after round 4
1. Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2710) 3, Alexander Onischuk (USA, 2650) 3
3. Boris Avrukh (Israel, 2645) 2.5
4. Alexander Motylev (Russia, 2648) 2, Judit Polgar (Hungary, 2707) 2, Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan, 2746) 2, Alexander Grischuk (Russia, 2726) 2
8. Yannick Pelletier (Switzerland, 2583) 1.5, Bu Xianghzi (China, 2685), 1.5
10. Loek van Wely (Netherlands, 2679) 0.5
Here is the official website. LIVE games can be seen here.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Hi All,
Sorry to post on a different topic here but I do not know where else to place it and I think it will be of great interest to many. It is regarding the recent news about checkers being “solved.”
I have been keeping track of posts between the World Checker Champion and several top Checker GMs about this and there seems to be a bit of confusion on the media role.
So, for those who would like to follow a very interesting discussion (which also includes many analogies to Chess and Kramnik and Computer chess) here is the link which is part of the American Checker Federations web site…and for those who do not know the World Champion is Alexander Moiseyev.
http://usacheckers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1329&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
In essence, only one form of checkers has been solved. For those who know about the game, the only type that’s been “solved” is abbreviated as “GAYP” (or, “Go as you please”) which is only one form of draughts/checkers.
Why should this interest Chess fans? Well, AI and computers for o ne. Second, a lot of quality chess discussion go on in their forums.
So, with the many allusions to chess, I thought some folks here would want to check it out as I found it very interesting to hear from their world champion.
Very nice picture.
Also Onischuk seems to be doing his homework. He looks very representable and can be promoted. May have been Polgar-Truong influenced. Except of this he is of course playing absoutely tremendous chess.
Impressive.
Say what you want, dress code hard-liners, but Magnus looks sooo awkward in this jacket- maybe it’s a requirement from the organizer- for a kid like him his red sweatshirt was much more appropriate.
What are they holding in their hands!?! (KingLoek and Magnus) ?!?
And oh yea: dresscode is ridiculous….as is moderation on this blog…
Moderation is necessary due to some people acting as knaves. Plus, if you don’t like moderation, make your own blog…it’s free. Anyway, this is GM Polgar’s blog and she can do with it as she wishes.
For me, I’m quite thankful to her for giving chess fans such a wonderful site and keeping us updated on events in the chess world.
Thank you Susan!
Go GM Onischuk!! America is rooting for you!
Well, as far as I remember, the reason for moderation were the USCF elections going on…now as they’re over, it seems to be the right moment to return to the original format..it would be nice for this to happen as every now and then on a larger scale we’re being told that being censored and having our freedoms limited more and more every day is actually supposed to be good for us.