Magnus Carlsen won his 2nd straight game after a slow start. He now leads Bazna by 1/2 point over Gelfand, who defeated Ponomariov.
Round 5 results:
| Gelfand, Boris | – Ponomariov, Ruslan | 1-0 | |||
| Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | – Carlsen, Magnus | 0-1 | |||
| Wang Yue | – Radjabov, Teimour | 1/2 |
Standings after 5 rounds:
| 1. | Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2813 | 3½ | |||||||||||
| 2-3. | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2741 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 2-3. | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2740 | 3 |
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| 4-5. | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | g | ROU | 2672 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 4-5. | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2733 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 6. | Wang Yue | g | CHN | 2752 | 1½ |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
It amazes me how a player rated 2752 can only score 1.5 out of 5 rounds. Good second win (Wind) by Carlsen but c’mon…Nisipeanu played terribly.
Hopefully the rest of the tourney keeps us as entertained.
Well the 2752 (over)rated player has seldom done well in super-GM tournaments. Anyway as per live ratings Wag Hao is the new top chinese GM.
The idea is simple – a chess game where you can play against the computer. But the implementation here is what’s truely monster about it. Each piece is its own autonomous robot, and there are actually a couple of ‘spares’ (as well as NXTs built into the King & Queen), so that ends up with 38 separate NXTs that must be controlled, commanded, and communicated with. Ron McRae did the bulk of the software work on the PC end for this, and it realy works well. The board has squares based on the large LEGO baseplates, making the entire assembly roughly 12′ on a side. On top of that is a way to input the humans moves, and a laptop running chess software and helping make everything move smoothly
Carlsen reached is new peak live rating: 2817,2. Noone has been this high since GK.
Ugly end to the Carlsen game, but Carlsen likely had a win even without the ending blunder by white.
I think this Carlsen is one to watch. He can reach far.
Topalov might be able to win this one. He’s the best you know as I am an expert in these things.
To tell the truth…I would be surprised to hear that Topalov got invited to ANY tournament because of his Rancid Entourage. Its sort of sad cause he’s a fun player to watch…but Danailov just makes it impossible to want the two guys around..sad..