Complete crush 1-0 Nakamura with Black over Aronian round 1 London.
Carlsen bested McShane thus equally Kasparov’s 2851 all-time best rating!!!
Kramnik beats Polgar and Adams defeats Jones
BYE = Anand
The usual comments followed around the internet:
“Aronian was unrecognizable, an off-day”, “the game played itself”, “it was all preparation”.
Had the game been the same, with the results reversed, these would have been the comments:
“Nakamura cannot compete with the top guys, he’s not that good”, “Aronian was just brilliant”, “Aronian’s home prep was masterful”