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The Morelia – Linares tournament will take place between February 15-23 (Morelia) and then February 28-March 7, 2008 (Linares). This is the strongest tournament of 2008 so far.
Name Year of birth Rating (January 2008 list)
GM Viswanathan Anand 1969 2799
GM Veselin Topalov 1975 2780
GM Alexei Shirov 1972 2755
GM Peter Leko 1979 2753
GM Vassily Ivanchuk 1969 2751
GM Levon Aronian 1982 2739
GM Teymour Radjabov 1987 2735
GM Magnus Carlsen 1990 2733
Category: 21
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Topalov will run away with this tournament and he’ll crush Kamsky too. Go Topy!
Susan, any idea which one was the strongest tournament of all time? It would be of great interest to your reader if you could give us a post with this information considering the following parameters.
1. The strongest tournament of 18th century.
2. The strongest tournament of 19th century.
3. The strongest tournament of 20th century before ELO rating systems started.
4. The strongest tournament of 20th century after ELO rating systems started. Please mention if it was Category 22 and what was the average ELO rating etc.
The strongest tournament of all time is the WC in Mexico City last September.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
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According to the ELo-system the 1996 Las Palmas (Kasparov won) was the highest with 2757 average. This is goig to be the second strongest of all the time with 2756.
I found last year Mexico Chess world championship’s average rating was 2751.75 where Anand won. Anyway, I am trying to find out the answers of the questions I mentioned above in this thread – http://chess4you.blogspot.com/2008/02/strongest-chess-tournament-of-all-time.html
Of course Topalov is not the main favourite, not at all.
There is the world champion Anand, and do not forget the co-winners of corus this January, Aronian and Carlsen. Even Radjabov has got a much better chance than that gentleman from bulgaria.
My opinion.
okay
Las Palmas 1996 was higher average and probably also the strongest tournament.
1.Kasparov, 2.Anand, 3-4. Kramnik, Topalov, 5-6. Ivanchuk, Karpov
They were the 6 higher rated players at the time (if I am not mistaken). Neither the Mexico championship, nor any other recent tournament matches this. (Note that Karpov was still no2 in ratings despite his last position)