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Kramnik 21 (38.2%) Anand 16 (29.1%) Leko 0 (0.0%) Aronian 9 (16.4%) Morozevich 1 (1.8%) Grischuk 0 (0.0%) Svidler 1 (1.8%) Gelfand 0 (0.0%) Topalov should have been invited 7 (12.7%) Total votes: 55 « Created by: thibdb13 on: 08/23/07 at 15:39:39 »

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WCC Mexico City 2007 (Read 55944 times)

Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: WCC Mexico City 2007 Reply #42 - 09/15/07 at 13:24:25	Post Tools	Print Post
	After two rounds Anand and Kramnik are together in first place. Aronian and Morozevich are in last place. This hurts Aronian more than anyone else, as Anand played a brilliant novelty (17...c5) to take down his opponent. Of course, a chess game is rarely about just one move, but Kramnik and Anand took care of business last night. I expect to see more of the same with Anand and Kramnik making very few stumbles as they show why they are the tournament favorites. Svidler took a tremendous risk playing the Spanish Marshall and finding an early Qe2 (instead of the normal Be3). ChessBase calls this a novelty but I know that I've looked at this with students. Our poor analysis had always shown that this was not a good way to play. Svidler was rewarded with a very complicated game that ended in a draw. BTW: For true world championship tournaments such as this one, the Category level shouldn't really matter. The best players in the world are playing each other in a double round robin tournament. That automatically places it in the pantheon of all-time great tournaments such as 1948 and 1953. As the Tour de France might say, this is an Hors Category. (Beyond definition)


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e2e4 Junior Member Offline Posts: 83 Joined: 02/17/06	Re: WCC Mexico City 2007 Reply #41 - 09/15/07 at 01:35:22	Post Tools	Print Post
	Question for Kramnik - Moro. How it goes after 8. 0-0 Nxc3 ?


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HgMan God Member Offline Demand me nothing: What you know, you know Posts: 2330 Location: Up on Cripple Creek Joined: 11/09/04 Gender:	Re: WCC Mexico City 2007 Reply #40 - 09/14/07 at 21:34:48	Post Tools	Print Post
	Kramnik's playing like Morozevich! Fantastic stuff! (we're at 16.cxb5)...

	"Luck favours the prepared mind." --Louis Pasteur
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kylemeister God Member Offline Posts: 4989 Location: USA Joined: 10/24/05	Re: WCC Mexico City 2007 Reply #39 - 09/14/07 at 20:25:56	Post Tools	Print Post
	Category 21.


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JonHecht Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 345 Joined: 01/17/07	Re: WCC Mexico City 2007 Reply #38 - 09/14/07 at 20:09:21	Post Tools	Print Post
	I'm sure that near the end when wins are needed that we will see some Sicilians, KIDs, Gruens, etc. Maybe... Anyway, what category is this tournament? It is amazing to see Svidler and Gelfand as the BOTTOM SEEDS!!!!!!


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ANDREW BRETT God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 622 Joined: 07/07/06	Re: WCC Mexico City 2007 Reply #37 - 09/14/07 at 15:24:21	Post Tools	Print Post
	I see the top level's favourite openings with Black have held up : Petroff and (anti)Marshall v 1 e4 QID and Semi Slav v 1 d4 I can't see the 1e4 players having much joy. By the way Gelfand missed a great chance with c5 according to Marin on Chessbase !


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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: WCC Mexico City 2007 Reply #36 - 09/14/07 at 00:18:01	Post Tools	Print Post
	We FINALLY know what the pairings are. This tournament has all the earmarks of an amateur event. Why weren't the players given advanced notice? Anyway, here's the pairings: No. Player Nat. Rtn Birth 1 Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2769 1975 2 Alexander Morozevich RUS 2758 1977 3 Vishwanathan Anand IND 2792 1969 4 Alexander Grischuk RUS 2726 1983 5 Peter Leko HUN 2751 1979 6 Boris Gelfand ISR 2733 1968 7 Levon Aronian ARM 2750 1982 8 Peter Svidler RUS 2735 1976 Round 1: Thursday, Sept. 13th 2007, 14:00h Vladimir Kramnik Peter Svidler Alexander Morozevich Levon Aronian Viswanathan Anand Boris Gelfand Alexander Grischuk Peter Leko All games were drawn on the first day. This probably hurts Kramnik and Anand more than the others. Round 2: Friday, Sept. 14th 2007, 14:00h Peter Svidler Peter Leko Boris Gelfand Alexander Grischuk Levon Aronian Viswanathan Anand Vladimir Kramnik Alexander Morozevich Round 3: Saturday, Sept. 15th 2007, 14:00h Alexander Morozevich Peter Svidler Viswanathan Anand Vladimir Kramnik Alexander Grischuk Levon Aronian Peter Leko Boris Gelfand Round 4: Sunday, Sept 16th 2007, 14:00h Peter Svidler Boris Gelfand Levon Aronian Peter Leko Vladimir Kramnik Alexander Grischuk Alexander Morozevich Viswanathan Anand Games – Report Free day: Monday, Sept. 11th 2007 Round 5: Tuesday, Sept. 18th 2007, 14:00h Viswanathan Anand Peter Svidler Alexander Grischuk Alexander Morozevich Peter Leko Vladimir Kramnik Boris Gelfand Levon Aronian Games – Report Round 6: Wednesday, Sept. 19th 2007, 14:00h Peter Svidler Levon Aronian Vladimir Kramnik Boris Gelfand Alexander Morozevich Peter Leko Viswanathan Anand Alexander Grischuk Round 7: Thursday, Sept. 20th 2007, 14:00h Alexander Grischuk Peter Svidler Peter Leko Viswanathan Anand Boris Gelfand Alexander Morozevich Levon Aronian Vladimir Kramnik Round 8: Friday, Sept. 21st 2007, 14:00h Peter Svidler Vladimir Kramnik Levon Aronian Alexander Morozevich Boris Gelfand Viswanathan Anand Peter Leko Alexander Grischuk Free day: Saturday, Sept. 22nd 2007 Round 9: Sunday, Sept. 23th 2007, 14:00h Peter Leko Peter Svidler Alexander Grischuk Boris Gelfand Viswanathan Anand Levon Aronian Alexander Morozevich Vladimir Kramnik Round 10: Monay, Sept. 24th 2007, 14:00h Peter Svidler Alexander Morozevich Vladimir Kramnik Viswanathan Anand Levon Aronian Alexander Grischuk Boris Gelfand Peter Leko Round 11: Tuesday, Sept. 25th 2007, 14:00h Boris Gelfand Peter Svidler Peter Leko Levon Aronian Alexander Grischuk Vladimir Kramnik Viswanathan Anand Alexander Morozevich Free day: Wednesday, Sept. 26th 2007 Round 12: Thursday, Sept 27th 2007, 14:00h Peter Svidler Viswanathan Anand Alexander Morozevich Alexander Grischuk Vladimir Kramnik Peter Leko Levon Aronian Boris Gelfand Round 13: Friday, Sept. 28th 2007, 14:00h Levon Aronian Peter Svidler Boris Gelfand Vladimir Kramnik Peter Leko Alexander Morozevich Alexander Grischuk Viswanathan Anand Round 14: Saturday, Sept. 29th 2007, 14:00h Peter Svidler Alexander Grischuk Viswanathan Anand Peter Leko Alexander Morozevich Boris Gelfand Vladimir Kramnik Levon Aronian Sunday, Sept. 30th 2007 Possible tiebreaks, closing ceremony


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JonHecht Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 345 Joined: 01/17/07	Re: WCC Mexico City 2007 Reply #35 - 09/13/07 at 05:38:11	Post Tools	Print Post
	Naw, I am just not gonna bother going. I am a poor college student, and I didn't realize how far it was. Tijuana is only like a 15 minute drive, and I didn't know how far Mexico City was . Oopsy, if anyone in San Diego happens to be driving down some weekend though, I will be happy to keep you company.


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MNb God Member Offline Rudolf Spielmann forever Posts: 10777 Location: Moengo Joined: 01/05/04 Gender:	Re: WCC Mexico City 2007 Reply #34 - 09/13/07 at 02:59:53	Post Tools	Print Post
	Corona is a very good reason to stay home and follow the tournament on internet - holding a tasty beer by the hand!

	The book had the effect good books usually have: it made the stupids more stupid, the intelligent more intelligent and the other thousands of readers remained unchanged. GC Lichtenberg
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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: WCC Mexico City 2007 Reply #33 - 09/13/07 at 01:58:37	Post Tools	Print Post
	Jon, From what I've heard, you may not have wanted to use your own car anyway. The roads are supposed to be rough and people are looking to loot US cars. I flew down to Mexico and used the public transport system. It may make more sense for you to check that out than risk the drive. Cheers! (Think Corona)


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JonHecht Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 345 Joined: 01/17/07	Re: WCC Mexico City 2007 Reply #32 - 09/12/07 at 22:12:48	Post Tools	Print Post
	I thought that the match started today. I was considering driving down to Mexico City for the weekend to watch part of the match, but then I realized that it is 1440 miles from San Diego.


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Gerry1970 Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 482 Joined: 02/01/06	Re: WCC Mexico City 2007 Reply #31 - 09/12/07 at 22:08:46	Post Tools	Print Post
	Hello All: How is everyone going to follow the tournament? I know the PlayChess server will have Yasser giving commentary for a part of a few games ("with a minimum of three one hour lectures per round"). Are there other good sites with video/audio commentary? Thanks, Gerry


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thibdb13 God Member Offline Tal was the best Posts: 974 Location: Mechelen Joined: 01/25/07 Gender:	Re: WCC Mexico City 2007 Reply #30 - 09/12/07 at 18:24:46	Post Tools	Print Post
	Only 24 hours to go. The countdown may start!!

	Yusupov once said that “The problem with the Dutch Defence is that later in many positions the best move would be ...f5-f7” but he is surely wrong.
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e2e4 Junior Member Offline Posts: 83 Joined: 02/17/06	Re: WCC Mexico City 2007 Reply #29 - 09/12/07 at 16:42:59	Post Tools	Print Post
	Some are published http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4106. Gabriel Sargissian might be the second of Aronian, I think.


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lnn2 God Member Offline Posts: 1504 Location: nc Joined: 09/22/04	Re: WCC Mexico City 2007 Reply #28 - 09/12/07 at 16:38:02	Post Tools	Print Post
	Quote: Anyone know who the seconds are ? I only know that Leko has Petrosian his father in law and that Kramnik interestingly has Loek Van Wely- perhaps Kramnik knows he needs extra advice on the Semi Slav or perhaps the Sicilian . A bit worrying on the Sicilian as loek has often been chopped up ! Kramnik just wants Van Wely's help to refute the Semi-Slav with 5. Bg5 =) I really don't believe he will play that Meran 8. Be2 again. or alternatively, he needs some ideas against the Nimzo or QID, which Van Wely can supply aplenty. Kramnik should be sticking to the Petroff, and he doesn't need help there, in any case his Petroff preparation with Rublevsky and Motylev for the Topalov match remains largely unused!


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