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Carlsen’s live rating is now 2889, which is 74 points higher than World No. 2 Aronian (2815) and 104 points higher than Former World Champion, Current Challenger, and World No.4 Anand (2785).
Round 3 of the Gashimov Memorial is underway.
One Norwegian to rule them all…
You’ve broken the metier.
Viking to rule them all
Viking to find them
Viking to bring them all
And on the chessboard bind them
Vikings like hammers, not rings. Magnus does not look like a berserker, but he sure has hammered the chess world over the last few years.
It was a Viking-like army of shades and ghosts that overwhelmed the armies of Mordor before the gates of Minas Tirith. Once they fulfilled their once broken oaths, they disappeared. Sauron was undone when the his ring of power fell, along with Gollum, into the lava flow of the volcano. Who is Sauron, a force for evil, in the chess world?
The story of Gashimov R4, as Howard Cosell might have said: “Down goes Sauron! Down goes Sauron!”
Caruana moves up to a first-place tie by beating the Ainur…er…Norwegian in impressive fashion.
Meanwhile, Nakamura looks like he will hold a pawn-down R+P ending against Radjabov, which will allow him to remain on level score.
back to back defeats for Magnus!!!
Mamedyarov-Caruana (today) is one of the slowest-developing games I’ve seen. At move 72, there’s one pawn and one knight off the board for each side.
I’m not sure what game you were watching but the Mamedyarov-Caruana position I saw after move 72 can be solved by an 11-piece endgame tablebase…
Oh for an eleven piece tablebase.
Alex Relyea
Carlsen conquers contemporaries!
Finishes with a +3 score, wins the touranment by a full point . . . and still loses rating points. That’s what happens when you out-rate the nearest competitor by nearly 100 points.
Shame FIDE does not prevent clear tournament winners from losing rating points…