In the age where kids earn their grandmaster titles at 13-14, two of the oldest players in the Bazna tournament, Ivanchuk and Gelfand, prove that they can still play chess. They share the lead at the top of the leaderboard.
Round 5 results:
| Radjabov, Teimour | – Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | ½-½ | |||
| Shirov, Alexei | – Gelfand, Boris | 0-1 | |||
| Kamsky, Gata | – Ivanchuk, Vassily | 0-1 |
Standings after 5 rounds:
| 1-2. | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2733 | 3½ | |||||||||||||
| 1-2. | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2746 | 3½ | |||||||||||||
| 3-4. | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2756 | 2½ | |||||||||||||
| 3-4. | Shirov, Alexei | g | ESP | 2745 | 2½ | |||||||||||||
| 5-6. | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2720 | 1½ | |||||||||||||
| 5-6. | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | g | ROU | 2675 | 1½ |
Official website: http://www.turneulregilor.com
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Of course these two can still play, however, there is no sense in comparing their results in this tournaments to those of youngsters as here ONLY established older grandmasters are participating so there is no real comparison…
Chucky = Chess God.
A chess god? that guys a thief, one of the lowest dogs around{fischer], i want printouts of all this guys games{kasparov].i thought the African chess players didnt know nothing whats happening with chucky? Has he been to Egypt experimenting with Senet? You know they say King Tut is brangin sexy back to the White House! hahaha. Let me stop this is too much fun!
@Anonymous 12:25PM: How old is Radjabov? But you are right concerning the rest of the field … .
Chucky = Needs Gillette razor.