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Question: Who will win the Candidates' Tournament, 2014?


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Vishy Anand 9 (6.7%) Dmitry Andreikin 0 (0.0%) Levon Aronian 52 (38.5%) Sergey Karjakin 5 (3.7%) Vladimir Kramnik 51 (37.8%) Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2 (1.5%) Peter Svidler 7 (5.2%) Veselin Topalov 9 (6.7%) Total votes: 135 « Created by: Smyslov_Fan on: 03/03/14 at 03:18:21 »

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IMJohnCox God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 1551 Location: London Joined: 01/28/06 Gender:	Re: Who will win this year's Candidates' Tournament! Reply #39 - 03/14/14 at 12:27:18	Post Tools	Print Post
	I think the moral of Svidler-Andreikin is, to coin a phrase, that 'young man, when you play such a bizarre opening you should not be surprised if you lose'. And Lord knows what Mamedjarov was playing at - did he muddle up his preparation somehow? K-K very interesting though.


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Bibs God Member Offline Posts: 2342 Joined: 10/24/06	Re: Who will win this year's Candidates' Tournament! Reply #38 - 03/14/14 at 12:19:36	Post Tools	Print Post
	ErictheRed wrote on 03/14/14 at 12:00:51: Perhaps we could share some good links? Which is the official site, how are people following the games? I found this: http://www.chessdom.com/candidates-chess-2014-live/ And this seems to be the official site, which took longer to find than it should have: http://candidates2014.fide.com/ Any other good links? http://www.twitch.tv/internetchessclub Joel Benjamin solid as ever, a good commentator. Har-Zvi seems a bit, well....


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ErictheRed God Member Offline USCF National Master Posts: 2534 Location: USA Joined: 10/02/05	Re: Who will win this year's Candidates' Tournament! Reply #37 - 03/14/14 at 12:11:20	Post Tools	Print Post
	By the way, looks like Svidler's winning from the White side of a Kalashnikov, so TonyRo's book might be delayed a bit more looking for a solution. Just teasing . Maybe TonyRo can give us his thoughts on the opening of that game, though (I'd post the score but it's not over yet). Edit: OK the game just finished, here's the score: Download game in pgn format Some really great games so far. It looks to me like Kramnik is winning his game, and here's Aronian's nice queen trap that took me completely by surprise: Download game in pgn format


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ErictheRed God Member Offline USCF National Master Posts: 2534 Location: USA Joined: 10/02/05	Re: Who will win this year's Candidates' Tournament! Reply #36 - 03/14/14 at 12:00:51	Post Tools	Print Post
	Perhaps we could share some good links? Which is the official site, how are people following the games? I found this: http://www.chessdom.com/candidates-chess-2014-live/ And this seems to be the official site, which took longer to find than it should have: http://candidates2014.fide.com/ Any other good links?


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Laramonet Senior Member Offline Gwyddbwll am byth ! Posts: 346 Location: Kidwelly Joined: 03/16/07 Gender:	Re: Who will win this year's Candidates' Tournament! Reply #35 - 03/14/14 at 10:41:20	Post Tools	Print Post
	Second round is full of exciting games. I'm impressed with the unbalanced positions (written after Ng3 by Kramnik). Is Mamedyarov just busted ?


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MartinC God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 2115 Joined: 07/24/06	Re: Who will win this year's Candidates' Tournament! Reply #34 - 03/14/14 at 09:28:35	Post Tools	Print Post
	I think Aronian hanging a piece like that counts as moderately unexpected! Yes in a not great position by then. Glad to see Anand winning that game mind because if black can play the Marshall where white has played d3 instead of c3, why on earth are we playing the Lopez?


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Pale Horse, Pale Rider Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 287 Joined: 12/26/12	Re: Who will win this year's Candidates' Tournament! Reply #33 - 03/14/14 at 07:35:53	Post Tools	Print Post
	TopNotch wrote on 03/14/14 at 01:09:07: Not unexpected to me at all. Anand is still a very poweful and Universal player. Ok, he has not shown his best recently, but the guy has defended the title successfully against Topalov, Gelfand and Kramnik! all opponents with contrasting styles, yet he prevailed. That says and means a lot. One cannot overcome Carlsen relying on the Marshall and Berlin alone in my humble opinion. Aronian needs additional weapons in his arsenal against 1.e4 and that goes double for Kramnik. Great players both, but they need to widen the net a bit, their repertoires are way too narrow. Early days yet though, and I'm sure there will be many more revelations as the tournament wears on. Tops Of course Anand is able to beat any other player in the world. No doubt about it. However he didn't show very convincing performances lately and I he beat Aronian where is well-prepared ...


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TopNotch God Member Offline I only look 1 move ahead, but its always the best Posts: 2211 Joined: 01/04/03 Gender:	Re: Who will win this year's Candidates' Tournament! Reply #32 - 03/14/14 at 01:09:07	Post Tools	Print Post
	Pale Horse, Pale Rider wrote on 03/13/14 at 13:05:36: Wow, unexpected start. Aronian just lost to Anand. All other games drawn. Though this is quite a long tournament, so anything can still happen of course. Not unexpected to me at all. Anand is still a very poweful and Universal player. Ok, he has not shown his best recently, but the guy has defended the title successfully against Topalov, Gelfand and Kramnik! all opponents with contrasting styles, yet he prevailed. That says and means a lot. One cannot overcome Carlsen relying on the Marshall and Berlin alone in my humble opinion. Aronian needs additional weapons in his arsenal against 1.e4 and that goes double for Kramnik. Great players both, but they need to widen the net a bit, their repertoires are way too narrow. Early days yet though, and I'm sure there will be many more revelations as the tournament wears on. Tops

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Keano God Member Offline Money doesn't talk, it swears. Posts: 2928 Location: Toulouse Joined: 05/25/05 Gender:	Re: Who will win this year's Candidates' Tournament! Reply #31 - 03/13/14 at 21:19:29	Post Tools	Print Post
	Kramnik, Svidler and Toppy all got to be happy drawing with Black and Aronian losing. Very early days, but this will be a test of character for Aronian now.


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Pale Horse, Pale Rider Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 287 Joined: 12/26/12	Re: Who will win this year's Candidates' Tournament! Reply #30 - 03/13/14 at 13:05:36	Post Tools	Print Post
	Wow, unexpected start. Aronian just lost to Anand. All other games drawn. Though this is quite a long tournament, so anything can still happen of course.


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MartinC God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 2115 Joined: 07/24/06	Re: Who will win this year's Candidates' Tournament! Reply #29 - 03/13/14 at 09:29:22	Post Tools	Print Post
	Often markedly different who you'd like to win something and who you obviously think will (Although plenty of people in this thread seemingly voting based on the former anyway!).


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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: Who will win this year's Candidates' Tournament! Reply #28 - 03/13/14 at 08:22:45	Post Tools	Print Post
	It was locked in order to have the discussion in one place. It is still possible to vote in the other poll, but comments about the tournament are easier to follow if they are all in one place.


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bragesjo God Member Offline CCE at ICCF 2021 and CCM at ICCF 2023 Posts: 1839 Location: Eskilstuna Joined: 06/30/06 Gender:	Re: Who will win this year's Candidates' Tournament! Reply #27 - 03/12/14 at 20:24:32	Post Tools	Print Post
	Why was this similar thread http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1394265517 locked? Many opinion results are slightly determended by the formulation of the frase. In the other thread I voted for Topalov since I would like him to win. In this thread I voted for Kramnik since I think he will win.


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BPaulsen God Member Offline I Love Light Squares! Posts: 1702 Location: Anaheim, CA, USA Joined: 11/02/08 Gender:	Re: Who will win this year's Candidates' Tournament! Reply #26 - 03/08/14 at 16:19:44	Post Tools	Print Post
	Voted for Kramnik. Emotional reason as much as anything; I enjoy the way he plays the game when he is in top form. The tournament is wide open as far as I'm concerned. There isn't supposed to be luck in chess, but catching multiple opponents on off-days can happen.

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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: Who will win this year's Candidates' Tournament! Reply #25 - 03/08/14 at 15:17:00	Post Tools	Print Post
	Bump.


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