Round 6 results:
Group A
L. van Wely 1/2 B. Gelfand
P. Leko 0-1 V. Topalov
M. Carlsen 1-0 J. Polgar
V. Anand 1/2 V. Ivanchuk
V. Kramnik – L. Aronian
T. Radjabov 1/2 M. Adams
S. Mamedyarov 1/2 P. Eljanov
Group B
N. Short 1-0 G. Sargissian
I. Cheparinov 1/2 H. Koneru
M. Krasenkow 1-0 E. L’Ami
E. Bacrot 1/2 I. Nepomniachtchi
P. Harikrishna 0-1 J. Smeets
Y. Hou 0-1 S. Movsesian
D. Stellwagen 1-0 W. Spoelman
Group C
I. Krush 1-0 F. Caruana
P. Carlsson 1/2 E. Grivas
A. Braun 1/2 D. Reinderman
J. van der Wiel 1/2 D. Ruijgrok
S. Li 0-1 M. van der Werf
A. Ushenina 1-0 Z. Peng
F. Nijboer 1-0 P. Negi
Official website: http://www.coruschess.com/
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
topalov is getting boring with these comebacks to win tournaments. Maybe he should try something else like winning the first 5 games in a row and then losing 3 to finish +2 or something like that.
Topalov is playing like crap, I am surprised any reasonably strong chessplayer would even bother with the headline. “Topalov continues poor play but benefits again from a silly blunder” would be a better headline. His poor play and the lackluster play from Anand are the two real stories.
Also the world #1 is fighting out yet another long endgame, you can still watch!
Ken is lost in the woods.
If Topalov wins 5 in a row he is accused of cheating. So, now he has
to drop a couple for starters… Seriously though — sometimes he
comes back, sometimes he doesn’t Last Linares was a total disaster…
Anand had a very meager Corus last year, but then went ahead to
winning Linares and becoming the World Champ later in the year.
Kramnik looks at the best shape so far, convincingly bulldozing his way
with white. Yet, one never knows what the rest of the year will bring.
One thing is for sure though, is that the new generation are starting
to leave their mark as the killers on the prowl…
D.
Lost in what woods? I seem to actually understand the games and actually can remember my own name long enough to type it…
And Kramnik just won! Aronian blundered on move 103, he should have kept his king between the pawns and kept checking (103…Ra5+) to follow up his wonderful 101…Kg6!
I think every good analyst – here and on other websites – will point out that kramnik played great but Aronian could have held the theoretical draw, and that Leko had an edge on Topalov late and made a bad decision to try for a win instead of forcing a draw. Leko’s QxQ with receive “??” from anyone with any sense. Qa7 was an easy draw unless Danilov cought Leko trying to use the bathroom….
dimi;
Topalov plays random chess, what some call “exciting” and others call “junk”. He sometimes loses and sometimes in the confusion he wins a cheap game. He doesn’t play good games like kramnik or Anand in my opinion but some prefer exciting to sound.
Like any gambler, he has some good streaks and bad streaks, sometimes he gets a good streak that coincides with a tournament. I think though that he is out of the hunt for #1 Elo now.
Does anyone know if anyone that is playing at Corus, ever played Fischer? Perhaps Short?
I’d like to know why Aronian lost? Isn’t it so that even if you have a lost position, but there hasn’t been captures or pawn movements on the board for 48 half moves, it’s a draw. I can’t even understand that this would have anything to do with etiquette, because this is totally rule based thing.
Carlsen’s play is amazing these days. What a difference from Corus 2007!
I will no longer be surprised if he actually is no.1 when the tournament is over.
Currently the 7th best player in the world according to http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessuser?uname=frogbert
And then theres’s Linares…
Zico;
The “draw” rule is 50 moves, not 50 “half-moves” which would be only 25 moves. The 50 move rule did not come into play in this game.
Ken
kramnik unloaded an exciting novelty (deviation from Rajabov-Anand rapid game) Nc3!! was a beautiful move.
Did anyone notice the huge upset in the C group?
Does anyone know if anyone that is playing at Corus, ever played Fischer? Perhaps Short?
Only Korchnoi and Portisch in the honorary group. Short was seven years old when Fischer won the WC in 1972. JP may have played skittles against him at some point — Susan?
FAST Search and Transfer is Carlsen’s sponsor. Microsoft just bought FAST for a billion dollars. I’m beginning to believe that Varlsen is the prime reason. He is actually sponsored by Microsodt now with approximately $100.000 a year.
kramnik played amazingly today
topalov didn’t show anything
Carlsen is real sharp !!!
Radjabov is a sniper
At the Corus 2008 website the report of round 6 is now posted.
As correctly predicted by me – who is NEVER lost in the woods – the report states that Topalov was losing to Leko who blundered, and that Leko’s QxQ is a “??” blunder.
Ken, show me please where in the Corus Website is it suggested that Topalov was “losing”… The comments were that at one point white was slightly better.
You speak with very strong words, so it calls for a credibility check…
D.
dimi;
Your comment is philosophical?
One is either losing or winning or equal.
If one’s opponent is better, even just slightly, one is “losing” by simple definition.
Obviously not every losing position is as easy for the other side to win, mistakes often happen.
I White is slightly better at move 30 but the game is equal at move 40, then either White had to blunder or the comment that White was slightly better was incorrect.
If you chose to say that only a little lost is not lost, but a lot lost is lost, and therefore say something other than lost when one is only losing a little, that is between you and your language professor/philosophy instructor. It does not change the fact that one can be in only oneof three states during a chess game – equal, losing, or winning.
Is it possible Irina Krush “distracted” Fabiano Caruana (wink)?
Poor Fabiano! He knows chess. But he has to learn how to play against pretty ladies and still deliver the point.
ken:
at no point was Topalov losing today, though i’d agree that Leko could have drawn the game if he had more time. not sure were you came up with this, perhaps you wrote the report for corus , but they ended up misquoting you.
Shame on Kramnik. Let him beat Topa in same zeitnot style. Topa who “show nothing” will crush Drawnik in their game.
… me – who is NEVER lost in the woods …
Then you don’t wander far enough from home, often enough.
ken – don’t expect objectivity from Susan Polgar regarding Topalov – there is a clear bias in favour of Topalov (and against Kramnik) in her comments and she has lost credibility as a result
perhaps also in this case she didn’t want to say “Magnus crushes Judit” which was clearly the headline of the round – in this case for perfectly understandable reasons
I agree with you – Anand needs to wake up – or he may be the second current world champion to get a minus score in a tournament (the first was Kramnik’s dreadful result at the M-TEL masters a few years ago now) – at present according to http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessuser?uname=frogbert Kramnik is #1 by 19 points
Aronian’s 103… Kf7 loses.
Ra5 was the only move to still hold draw…
Gegga
@ken the delusional
Leko wasn’t better dimwit, it was a drawn endgame with best play on both parts. Don’t read what you want to.
Hey, Ken,
Feeling a bit pricked in the arse? Thought so…
Your obvious lack of elementary chess reasoning and your badly veiled hatred against Topalov ooze out from every line (often incorrect and misspelled). I would be happy if this trend continues–next time you can shit out blood and nails!
Really! Who cares about Topalov!He has besmirched his as well has the reputation of other chess GM’s. He is definitely no chess genius as some would have us believe. In the pre computer days he would be in the wilderness. Bobby would have kicked his ass. I truly wonder what tricks he and Danailov have hatched up now to try and regain the World Championships.
A fine win with black against Leko – and the Toppy-haters desperately scramble when the lad wins, again. Move on, you hags!
C’mon Judit, a strong comeback, grrrl!