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Caruana picks up 1 more FIDE point for this draw with Carlsen and has a live rating of 2836.1. This moves him to within 29.1 points of Carlsen (2865.2). The 2836.1 also eclipses Aronian's peak rating of 2835.5 so Caruana is 3rd on the all-time highest FIDE rating live list, behind only Carlsen (2889.2) and Kasparov (2856.7).
MA: Today we thought you might go for the streak or take a quiet draw. What were your thoughts?
FC: Above all, I didn’t want to lose. I still thought I should play for a win if I had the chances. From the opening, he gave me a good position and I had pretty good winning chances and I probably made many mistakes to lose this advantage.
MA: In this position, instead of playing 15. Nd5 you played Nb5, what did you think about this move?
FC: It was my first intention to play Nd5 and then exd5 and I have a very good position and then I was attracted to play Nb5 and then Na3 and I thought that would be even more unpleasant for him.
MA: So here you play Nb5 and he decided not to give you that move and played a3 and allowed you this position and you could have castled normally but instead you attacked whole hog with h4. He played h5 and then we had a lot of fun with g4. Did you suspect that e5 was his only move?
FC: I didn’t see any other move for him. It is necessary to get the knight away from the centre.
MA: The computer criticizes your castling.
FC: I was worried that after his Nb2 it is better to get my king on h2 quickly and double my rooks. But maybe castles was a mistake.
MA: Of all moves that is the one that might have pulled your advantage back. The endgame you got looks like a draw. Were you disappointed when you saw the draw coming?
FC: I could have done better in the middle game but I see there was no clear win which isn’t so bad and the result is pretty good.
MA: What does it feel to have won the tournament?
FC: It is my best performance ever. If I can do well in the last two games it has been a great tournament for me. It is important to end on a high note.
Interview with Magnus Carlsen by Maurice Ashley
MA: What is your perspective on the tournament now that it is practically ended?
MC: I think my play hasn’t been that great but resultwise I have recovered well after my loss in Round 3. I hope Caruana goes for it in the last two rounds to make it truly special.
MA: We were having fun analyzing this game, did you have fun playing it?
Fabiano was having more fun than I was in this game. I did something a little unusual in the opening. I think Qa5 is the move to make instead of a5. I suddenly saw the idea of a5 and then a4 and that would make the game interesting. I sort of underestimated his h4 idea, thinking that he would have to play for mate, which he didn’t have to. I intended to capture the pawn on h4 but the computer just told me that was mate..
I was worried about my position, there are a lot of things that can go wrong for Black there. In the back of his mind he realized that a draw was a good result and in slight time trouble, he bailed out.
MA: Now there is no first place, what do you do in your last two games?
MC: I just want to finish with a good result. If I can play two good games and win one, then it would be a decent result. Second place is still nice. In my last twenty tournaments with one or two exceptions I have scored plus 3 or plus 2. If I score plus two than that is all right.
It is an amazing result, one of the great results of our time.
MA: Is a match between you two possible?
MC: Let him play a couple of more tournaments like this and we’ll talk. We shouldn’t completely forget about what has happened in the last four years either.
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Chess.com - The game followed Felgaer-Cuenca Jimenez, 2013 until move 15 when Caruana moved his queen's knight to b5, not d5. Think that was an obscure game? Well it was also played in Andorra, making it even more remote.
Despite the chances for more today, even at "just" seven games, Caruana's moment in history is surely the Joe DiMaggio 56-game hitting streak of chess. Perhaps he will be like DiMaggio and start another one. Joltin' Joe hit safely in 16 consecutive games immediately following.
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GM Vladimir Chuchelov admitted that Caruana's 17. h4 wasn't the safest choice -- "Why not just castle?"
MC: Let him play a couple of more tournaments like this and we’ll talk. We shouldn’t completely forget about what has happened in the last four years either.
On other forum a person wrote that MC exits FIDE and forms WCF with Kasparov backed by Sinquefield $$$ then the match between two C takes place LOL
This rose an interesting question to me: who waited longest (shortest) before meeting the champion in the match? (considering that the person was already a world extra-class player over that period).
Some names:
for longest: Capablanca (WWI), Korchnoi.
for shortest: Tal, Kasparov.
MA: It looked at one time like you had the game all wrapped up. What happened?
FC: At this moment I just didn’t see 40. Rxg6, a pretty simple win and nothing to calculate but don’t know why I missed it.
MA: The disappointment about this game..?
FC: The result is still good. Yesterday I missed winning chances and missed a clear win today, so it is very disappointing.
MA: After achieving the goal, sometimes you relax. Do you feel that winning the tournament might not have been the best thing for you for a game like this?
FC: I can’t complain about winning the tournament. (!) I don’t think I relaxed, I was trying to win from the start and I played well for most of the game.
MA: At the end, you were still pressing. Did you realize you were in danger?
FC: I realized I might just lose so I decided to end the game.
Just after you miss a chance like this you don’t really think about the big picture. If I get chances tomorrow I’ll take them otherwise I just want to play solidly and not to do anything crazy.
Interview with Hikaru Nakamura by Maurice Ashley
MA: How did you feel when Fabiano missed the win and let you crawl all the way back from the precipice?
HN: Well, I played a bad game today and got a little bit lucky. I think I was completely fine in the opening. Once I allowed this Rd4 move it was unpleasant. After he missed Rxg6 I was able to find the best moves.
MA: We’ve noticed in this tournament how you go into the tank after a long think.
HN: Well maybe I should treat every game like a bullet game. Most of my mistakes have come after a long think. Against Topalov yesterday I played 18. Ng5 instead of Bg5 and so I used twenty minutes to blunder.
MA: Relief that there is only one round left?
HN: I don’t know if relief is the right word. I could have lost today and it wouldn’t have changed much for me. I am not frustrated with the results because I haven’t played well. It’s more in general with how badly this whole year has gone 2014.
MA: Fabiano has been scintillating for seven rounds and then yesterday he touched the wrong rook and missed a win against Carlsen and there is today. Why is this happening?
HN: He is playing well but he is still human. He is going to make mistakes but recently he has made some moves he wish he had back. He has been lucky – against Maxime on move 15 when MVL played g3 opposed to castling. Regardless of yesterday or today, he is still having a great tournament.
MA: Thanks for joining us with your insights. Best of luck in the last game and the rest of 2014.
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From ChessBase.com
Carlsen, Magnus ½-½ Aronian, Levon
The World Champion obtained some comfortable pressure in the opening, and slowly but surely it seemed as if that pressure was increasing - especially with some strange and weakening moves by Aronian. However the Armenian's play wasn't senseless at all, somehow he obtained counterplay and the position was not easy to play for either side.
A mistake left Aronian in a difficult rook endgame that required an incredible amount of precision. Carlsen reached a winning position but blundered it all away with the move 46.h6?? instead of 46.Kc2! With this error Aronian was able to beautifully show the Vancura Defense and obtained a draw out of seemingly nowhere. Many spectators without access to tablebases were confused online as the engines keep saying this position is a win, but it most certainly was not.
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I propose we now call this win streak the Fabionacci Sequence
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Despite his poor performance in St. Louis, Naka retains his sense of humour with this tweet.
Hikaru Nakamura @GMHikaru
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Everyone loves to make fun of me for blowing +12 against Carlsen, but if Caruana can blow +15 against me...anything is possible!
8:21 PM - 5 Sep 2014
There is a writeup on this even at the FiveThirtyEight web site. This site does not normally cover chess - it was started by Nate Silver who is famous for his extremely correct predictions of the last presidential race.
What surprised me is that the article looks like it was written for people knowledgeable about chess, making no concessions to explain things to the usual visitors to the site who likely know little or nothing about our game.
MA: Levon, this tournament was certainly not your best. The first thing when you came in was to say to me, “This horror has finished.”
LA: I just didn’t play any good games at all. Many mistakes. It was a disastrous tournament. I can guess the reasons why I am playing badly but I don’t want to share them.
MA: Today’s game against Caruana - you played for something ambitious with 11. Kf1 but you went to an endgame in which you didn’t have much.
LA: I think I was worse. 13. h4 was a terrible move, it just doesn’t make sense. Of course I should have continued with f4 – you know, the way the good guys do it. But instead I played h5 and didn’t know what to do next. At some point I was in trouble. I was terrified of his 25…Bc1. I thought, “Well, I’ve done it again!”
MA: Were you surprised he traded and you were able to equalize?
LA: It is not easy to play after you win the tournament early.
MA: What does the future hold for you?
LA: I hope to have some sort of rehabilitation in the Bilbao Tournament in the Grand Slam. After that I will sit and figure out what to do not to play so badly.
Interview with Fabiano Caruana by Maurice Ashley:
MA: You have had the greatest rating tournament in history. Can you put that into context for us?
FC: I am very happy about the entire tournament except for Rounds Eight and Nine. I would like to forget about Round Nine very quickly.
MA: Tell us about today’s game with Aronian.
FC: We had checked into the opening a while ago and I had an even position but at some point I started to get slightly better then avoided a repetition and found I was slightly worse so I offered a draw as quickly as I could.
MA: I hear that you were mobbed coming down the stairs. America loves you. You were born here in America. Is there a rumour that you might come back and live here and represent the United States?
FC: So far it is just a rumour but I would rather not say too much about that.
MA: Your stature has grown tremendously and there is talk of a match against Magnus Carlsen.
FC: There is going to be a lot of hype after a result like this but I have to follow it up with more good results. I’ll try to get as far as I can in the World Championship cycle. I think I can compete against Magnus.
MA: I have been asked if you are single?
FC: I am.
MA: Ladies, I asked the question and the answer is out there.
In our salad green days we were a great fan of Donald Duck comics written by Carl Barks. Three sub-characters were Scrooge McDuck, Gyro Gearloose and Gladstone Gander.
Well, lucky lucky Gladstone Gander has appeared in Hans Ree’s chess column and is compared to Rex Sinquefield:
“On Friday August 15, (Rex) visited the Max Euwe Center in Amsterdam, together with his wife and Yasser Seirawan, who lives in Amsterdam. The Max Euwe Center is a library, a small museum and an organizer of training sessions and other chess events, located at the Max Euwe Square in the center of Amsterdam. Adjacent to it is the Hein Donner bridge, named after the late Dutch grandmaster.
Who would be surprised that just as Gladstone Gander, lucky Rex Sinquefield turned out to be the 75,000th visitor to the chess center? Naturally he received presents. The staff of the Max Euwe Center has assured me that it was a complete coincidence that it was he who turned up at exactly the right moment, and I believe them.”
I should mention that the Donald Duck comics were immensely popular in the Netherlands and Scandinavian countries too.
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