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To the five grandmasters previously reported to be participating – Fabiano Caruana, Viswanathan Anand, Hikaru Nakamura, Vladimir Kramnik and Michael Adams - has been added Anish Giri. The main event will take place from December 10 to 14.
The main event is the Super Rapidplay Open on 6-7th December with the prize fund of £25,000. Top Grandmasters Fabiano Caruana, Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Hikaru Nakamura, Michael Adams and Anish Giri have confirmed participation.
The Super Rapidplay is a 10-round FIDE rated open tournament with no grading sections; instead all players play in the same section and generous grading prizes have been added. This event will feature all of the players who are taking part in the main event of the London Chess Classic along with many GMs and IMs.
Pairings: In the first round, the six super Grandmasters from the London Chess Classic will be paired against junior players who have been selected from a qualifying junior tournament. Pairings for all other rounds will be made according to FIDE Swiss pairing rules, using the Swiss Master computer program.
Time Control: All moves in 25 minutes plus a 10 second increment per move from move 1.
Before the Elite-Six cross swords with one another (10-14 December) they are going to take part in a ten-round super rapid play this weekend of 6-7 December, which is open to all.
25 minutes for all the moves with 10-second increments. The first prize is £8000.
The Elite will play against junior players in the first round. This is the draw made yesterday in the usual way.
Round 1 (noon start)
Hikaru Nakamura (White) vs Theodore Slade
Fabiano Caurana (Black) vs Richard Zhu
Vishy Anand (White) vs Rishul Karia
Mickey Adams (Black) vs William Golding
Vladimir Kramnik (White) vs Naomi Wei
Anish Giri (Black) vs Alexander Jamieson
Imagined conversation between Naomi and Richard (above):
Richard – Who are you playing tomorrow?
Naomi – Kramnik. He has an Elo 800 points higher than mine and he also has the white pieces.
Richard – Bummer. At least I’ve got white against Caruana. I was hoping to pull a caruana in the tourney
but that’s rather difficult when you start against Caruana himself!
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It seems quite the chess festival with a conference on Chess and Mathematics, a chess set auction, a Pro-Biz Cup and Kasparov in to sign copies of his new book (i.e. Part III of Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov 1993-2005)
The R5 game between Hikaru Nakamura and Jonathan Hawkins (whom I believe is now a GM, not an IM) amused me. Naka used all of 4 seconds on his clock (plus of course 15 x 10 seconds increments) to trap Hawkins Queen in a Trompowsky Attack and force resignation in just 15 moves. Hawkins used 17:03 (again plus increments) on his clock in a vain endeavour to save his Queen.
In round 3, Mortazavi and Caruana found themselves in complicated play, but with insufficient time to think things through properly. Mortazavi had the balance of play in favour of him, implying that there were errors on both sides, but Caruana making slightly more errors. He was attacking against Caruana's open kingside, while Caruana had three dangerous passed pawns on the queenside. After move 37, Mortazavi had a great opportunity to open up Black's king with 38.f5xBe6 h7xg6 39.Rh3xg6+! Kg7xg6 40.Qe7xRf8, or even a bishop move on g2, with a discovered check, with a rook on g1, and the king on g6 has to run. Black's pawn on f7 could not have taken on g6 earlier, because the pawn was pinned by the queen on e7.
It is difficult to say what went wrong here, except that possibly there is a natural instinct that a player of Caruana’s strength could not possibly have allowed such a simple tactic.
I was watching the game live on line. White got behind on time and was left with under a minute when Nakamura played 45. ... Nb3 and Caruna took the knight pretty well instantly. This was a losing blunder but the fault likely lies with Caruna getting into such time pressure.
Almost-Canadian Hikaru Nakamura won the London Rapid and 8,000 quid in fine style - his last three rounds were wins against Anish Giri, Fabiano Caruana and Vishy Anand giving him 9 1/2 - 1/2. Eric Hansen finished with 8 points - a ten-way tie for third half a point behind Anish Giri.
The only other Canadian in the field of 405 was Daniel Abrahams who finished in 150th place with 5 points from 10 rounds.
Last edited by Vlad Dobrich; Sunday, 7th December, 2014, 04:29 PM.
Almost-Canadian Hikaru Nakamura won the London Rapid and 8,000 quid in fine style - his last three rounds were wins against Anish Giri, Fabiano Caruana and Vishy Anand giving him 9 1/2 - 1/2. Eric Hansen finished with 8 points - half a point behind a handful of Super GM's.
The only other Canadian in the field of 405 was Daniel Abrahams who finished in 150th place with 5 points from 10 rounds.
Hi Vlad:
Makes me feel pretty good. Here are my three choices, in order, to be the 2016 WCC Challenger:
Who are your three picks at the present time, Vald? Anyone else want to jump in?
I'd say:
-Caruana
-Aronian
-Grischuk
I'd flip a coin between the first two. Caruana is on a good streak recently and he's younger. But Aronian has much more experience in these candiates tournaments. Grischuk is a long shot, but he's been slowly and consistently improving in the last few years.
I just don't see Nakamura making it out of a candidates tournament. He hasn't been consistently winning tournaments at the very top. However, a match between him and Carlsen would certainly be... interesting!
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