Standings after 14 rounds:
| 1 | GM | Anand, Viswanathan | IND | 2788 | 12.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | GM | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2801 | 10.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | GM | Karpov, Anatoly | RUS | 2619 | 9.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | GM | Kramnik, Vladimir | RUS | 2772 | 8.5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | GM | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2736 | 8.5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | GM | Karjakin, Sergey | UKR | 2723 | 8.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | GM | Bareev, Evgeny | RUS | 2634 | 8.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | GM | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2739 | 8.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | GM | Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | 2739 | 7.5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | GM | Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2754 | 7.5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | GM | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2786 | 7.5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | GM | Leko, Peter | HUN | 2752 | 7.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | GM | Morozevich, Alexander | RUS | 2750 | 6.5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | GM | Gashimov, Vugar | AZE | 2758 | 6.5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | GM | Polgar, Judit | HUN | 2680 | 6.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | GM | Naiditsch, Arkadij | GER | 2689 | 6.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | GM | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | CUB | 2719 | 5.5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | GM | Jakovenko, Dmitry | RUS | 2736 | 5.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | GM | Tkachiev, Vladislav | FRA | 2642 | 4.5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | GM | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2758 | 4.5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | GM | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2719 | 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | GM | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | RUS | 2517 | 4.0 |
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
How come “Chess Queen” Kosteniuk is in last place? Maybe that self proclaimed title should be changed to “Women’s World Knockout Champion”?
You can find the games at:
http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/assets/files/pgn/wblitz09.pgn
Karpov is amazing !
I agree about Kosteniuk. It’s nauseating to see all the labels Kosteniuk and her manager gave to her. She’s not even in the top 10 in the world in women’s ranking. Anand is awesome. And he didn’t self proclaim “Chess King”. Perhaps Ms. Kosteniuk can learn from World Champion Vishy Anand?
Kosteniuk beat Magnus 🙂
Leave her alone… She defeated Carlsen with Black.
Who cares,Kosteniuk pretty vishy ugly so shadddup!!! hehehe.
Please stop with this Kosteniuk, Topalov, Kramnik, or Carlsen bashing. Let’s just enjoy their chess talent and leave the other stuff out of it.
Thanks!
Susan Polgar
Wow, Anand with 12/14 against such opposition. Did not expect such dominance and wonder whether he will be able to keep it up over the next two days.
Regarding Kosteniuk: while it probably was less her chess abilities that got her the invitation she is still onder of the strongest female players out there and a great ambassador for chess, so why not invite her?
Frankly, I prefer watching STRONG players’ games, however, I also deinfitely prefer having her (or other, “weaker” players) invited rather than watch the 40th game between e.g. Svidler and Kramnik.
Guess it is all a matter of taste. Aah, what I forgot: was Kosteniuk not a World Champion among the ladies?! Should I remember this correctly this would even be another argument for her invitation.
Enjoy the games!
Beelze
Kosteniuk is the reigning Woman WC. That’s why she’s invited, and that’s why she can call her chess queen. The other woman who is invited is the highest rated female player, Judith Polgar.
That’s okay!
Why was Nakamura not invited to play? He surely is one of the worlds best blitz players.
Susan,
I agree with your comment, but you forgot the name of your compatriot Peter Leko, who seems to be a nice person but is nevertheless bashed more than anyone else, often in such a derogatory way
that it must have some impact on his self-esteem.
Steven
Nakamura was invited. What they did is tie the invitation to a long string and when he reached down to pick it up they yanked it away, he went over to the invitation and bent over, and they yanked it away. This went on for awhile until they got to the street corner where the Acme safe was dropped on him.
Have they stopped for the day? Don’t see results for Round 15 and above even on the link Susan posted with the article.
Wouldn’t it be cool if all the games could be seen live? GM commentary on Blitz games will be hard, but a Rybka commentary could work, right?
Wonder why Radjabov is not here.
Voluntary or involuntary?
I think all tournaments at this level should have all the strong youngsters: Carlsen, Radjabov, Karajkin, and Aronian.
Yes, they “stopped for today”. it is 14 games every day, the final one being Wednesday.
Beelze
Karpov impressive.
Funny how the Kosteniuk-bashers focus on her, not Gelfand (2758), a half-point ahead of her, and Mamyedanov, tied with her. I haven’t done the math, but I daresay that so far she’s exceeded the expectation for her rating.