Gelfand played solidly to hold off Morozevich’s creative ideas and scored a full point. He now ties with Anand as the leader of the 2007 World Championship!
Grischuk and Svidler played perhaps the most exciting game of the tournament so far. In spite of their valliant efforts, it ended in a draw.
Leko – Anand was a short 21 move draw.
Aronian – Kramnik made it to move 22 before it ended peacefully.
Standings after 6 rounds:
1-2 Anand, Gelfand 4.0
3-4 Kramnik, Grischuk 3.5
5-6 Leko, Aronian 2.5
7-8 Morozevich, Svidler 2.0
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
To Susan Polgar:
you mentionned twice Gelfand in your standings list.
Evidently Gelfand suffers from MPD.
Is Gelfand the one who crushed Judit Polgar?
Gelfand – Refuting machine
Kramnik x Gelfand, next round, will be very interesting.
“Is Gelfand the one who crushed Judit Polgar?”
Judit was crushed by Bareev which in turn was crushed by Leko.
There are lots of people writing to this blog claiming that Kramnik is boring because he gets very easy draws with black in this field. I would suggest them to play a game as black against one of these players with white side having one pawn (maybe even two)deficit at the start. Then they will understand what they are talking about.
Gelfand never had any major WC success, neither will he now. It’s not logical. His great play has come to an end, so I recommend to him to offer draws quickly to salvage a few points. How do you like Marin’s commentary on Cb? Kramnik IS often boring to watch, especially when gone to the toilet. On another point, he is the only 2700+ player I respect fully, since a month ago. Enough from me. Wish I could delete this after, say, one hour.
Came back to thank the blog owner for the space, kindess, anlaysis, world chess stories, etc, etc, etc, etc. Thank you all.
“Kramnik x Gelfand, next round, will be very interesting.”
Why? The result is already known and youn can see it here: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Vladimir+Kramnik&word2=Boris+Gelfand
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Has not Gelfand played in the pretenders matches in the 90’s of the XXtieh century ?
Rgds
Pony
Gelfand closed out his game well, but wasn’t Rxe3 just a terrible sacrifice? What was Morozevich hoping for?
Hi Susan,
Great site. great stuff. Pls keep up the good work. People like you are a boon to the chess world.
The comments on the official website are annoying and superficial. (www.chessmexico.com)
Complaining about draws, lobbying for the Sofia rule,…
I think in general this has been a good and exciting tournament so far !
Maybe the webmaster is confused and
thinks he’s watching basketball or soccer ; these sports may be more suited for the mexican mind.
Steven
“What was Morozevich hoping for?”
(of course I can not say that for sur but I try…)
For the exchange black gets the bishop pair and a strong Nc5.
In addition white’s pawn structure is shattered.
That seems not to be enough compensation for a whole exchange but is a sign that Moro was willing to fight and try till the end.
I hope he gets at least once more rewarded with another nice win.
If he had offered draw instead of saccing material, Gelfand probably would have accepted – but Moro does not want it simple. All the drawers in the tournament should learn from him and all those here who posted “it was dead draw” should learn from him, too.
Morozevich, please don’t change your aggresiveness but change your success. 🙂
Good luck on the way to (at least) 50%!
Greetings
Jochen
Why should I learn from Morozevich? I don’t want to play beautiful, I want to win my games.
hm… silken, morozevich’s style gives him the world’s best results against below 2700 ELO players…
Is that good enough for you winning your chess games?
I think any GM has got a lot to be learnt from. Any GM.
From Anonymous at 12:10 am
“Gelfand never had any major WC success, neither will he now. It’s not logical. “
Boris Gelfand won 2 candidates matches for the Fide world championship back in 1994, beating Adams and Kramnik (yes, that Kramnik, although he was 19), before losing to Karpov in the semi-finals.