Round 8 results:
| Ponomariov, Ruslan | – Naiditsch, Arkadij | 1-0 |
| Leko, Peter | – Kramnik, Vladimir | ½-½ |
| Le Quang Liem | – Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | ½-½ |
Standings after 8 rounds:
| 1. | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2734 | 5½ |
| 2-3. | Le Quang Liem | g | VIE | 2681 | 4½ |
| 2-3. | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2761 | 4½ |
| 4. | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2790 | 4 |
| 5. | Naiditsch, Arkadij | g | GER | 2684 | 3 |
| 6. | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2734 | 2½ |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
I think Ponomariov is better than Carlsen.
Ponomariov impressive , he proved he’s a lot stronger than Kramnik
“I think Ponomariov is better than Carlsen.”
loool!
Maybe he is not stronger but i think his talent is “purer”, he makes absolutely no technical mistake, like Fischer or Capablanca, but his style has grown much sharper !
And poor Vlad plays one tournament a year, he should normally win it but he is a mid 1990s player
Ponomariov played really well and deserves the win! As a Kramnik fan, I expected more from him. He doesn’t seem as sharp as he was. Leko was just poor!
Susan i think Leko making chess look too easy ,Susan is chess complicated or Complex, ” cuz yall mixin me up” , Susan Judge Mathis something else, Um tryin to keep this transition as light as possible cuz if i have to go get Judge Judy we gone clear the room , she hit you straight in the face! hehe.
Pono is the real deal !
Leko is exactly where he deserves to be. And so is Kramnik. The Old Alekhine Bogolyobov matches ring loudly…neither of these two deserve any folowing. Le is doing great…so is Pnomariov! at least we have some serious players here.
“I think Ponomariov is better than Carlsen.”
That was a joke right? Pono has a bad score against Magnus, and he recently lost against Magnus in the King’s Tournament (which Magnus won clearly, 2 points ahead of the rest).
Emmanuel, what’s a mid-90’s player? A player that became World Champion in 2000?
Or even a World Champion in 2010, because Anand could well be called a mid-90’s player. Doesn’t sound like a disqualification to me.
Leko will be in top 5 very soon. Go Peter!!!
Leko is the same as Kramnik..they are not top flight..sorry if that hursts your feelings….they played each other in a WCC match which was basically a joke. THIS is how good they are..nothing surprising.
Yup, Kramnik is exactly where he should be – in the middle. Leko has been a disgrace to countless tournaments in the past 5 years; despite the smart talk of dubious media that he is among the strongest players…theoretical conceptualization is not a substitute for talent. Leko obviously knows theory very well; but playing well is altogether another matter…
Leko is here jkust because of Kramnik.And Kramnik is sponsored by chessbase.com
Both are sore losers and belong to the middle where they are now .
Go Pono! Go Le! Go So! Go Magnus! Go Topa! Those are the most exiting and interesting players nowadays!
Leko is winner! So is Topa! Both are World Champions!
“The old Alekhine Bogolyubov matches ring loudly”. Very apt.
Kramnik avoided Kasparov every bit as much as Alekhine avoided Capablanca.
Kramnik cannot be considered the World Champion after 2002 for the same reason that Fischer cannot be after 1975 – a refusal to defend the Title on satisfactory terms.
For the period 2002-2006, Kramnik can only be considered to be the “Braingames Champion”, a title about as valid and empty as that of “FIDE Champion” was from 1993-2005.
The title of “Braingames Champion” was all Kramnik and Leko were playing for in 2004.
“Kramnik plays one tournament a year”
Huh? Last year, Kramnik played Dortmund, Tal Memorial and London. This year, he played Corus, plays Dortmund and will play London. So far, he finished first or (shared) second in four out of five events – but apparently one bad tournament is enough for all his detractors or enemies to wake up.
“Kramnik avoided Kasparov every bit as much as Alekhine avoided Capablanca.”
May i just recall that those two cases are completely different !
-Alekhine wanted Capablanca to offer exactly the same conditions Alekhine had to offer, it’s Capa who wanted to avoid the first match and paid for his dishonesty !
-Kramnik on the contrary is the one who used lobbying, strategies, and contracts-breaking to avoid a match, it’s not the same thing
-Alekhine who won the match won every single tournament he played in after his title
-On the contrary, it’s Kasparov who LOST who won all the tournaments, so that He really deserved a revenge
“What is a mid-1990s player, Emmanuel”
It’s a player who is used to agreeing draws and who knew his best successes in the 1990s and never played greatly after winning his 2000 championship.
But now that even Dortmund is played according to the rules of Danailov, or the “embodiment of evil” for the ones who don’t like him, kramnik is in his right place.