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On the top board Magnus Carlsen is playing Li Chao. He is brimming with confidence after yesterday and that is bad news for any opponent.
The guys mention that besides a large container of tea next to Li Chao, there is a smaller bottle. Svidler says that it is a liquid containing Tiger Balm. It has a very strong smell and takes a while to get used to. At Olympiads the Chinese team used to open their little jars of Tiger Balm. Your senses would be under assault as the odour reached you. Li Chao seems to be addicted to it.
Alejandro says that he was playing in Turkey once, in the World Junior, on First Board, against David Howell and Li Chao was on the board next to him. There was no air conditioning, a lack of lighting, great heat and then LI opened his bottle and there was this strong smell coming out of nowhere.
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Tiger Balm is usually used as an ointment but Li Chao was drinking it. It has a mixture of herbs and some kinds have menthol and camphor, which give it the strong smell. Those who have used Mentholatum will know what we mean.
Round 5, Dec. 24, 2015
Carlsen, Magnus – Li, Chao B
D70 Neo-Grunfeld Defence
I once had a Chinese friend explain to me the order of family name and given name in use. Now, for clarity, I usually use both in the recognized order. The computer headings on the electronic board just use the first of the two so we have a list of names which seem almost like one of new elements: So, Yu, Xu, Ni, Lu, Li, Ma and Ly.
There's a group of 8 players at 4/5, a 1/2 point back of Carlsen. Six are elites: Kramnik, Giri, So, Karjakin, Mamedyarov, and last year's winner, Yu Yangyi. The two surprises are Ganguly and Sweircz.
There has been some talk about the young players here at Doha and the use of a strong Open to train them.
I was curious as to numbers and ratings, so I made a list of all the players born in 1995 or later, with a rating over 2300 and got this breakdown:
Born in 1995 – Fedoseev, Naroditsky, Lu Shanglei, Bok, Ma Zhonghan and Roy (6 players)
Born in 1996 – Dubov, Xu Yinglun, Fang Yuxiang, Saduakassova and Bivol (5 players)
Born in 1997 – Bluebaum, Svane, Yuffa, Gagare, Basso and Khadealsharieh (6 players)
Born in 1998 – a bumper year – Duda, Schroeder, Sunilduth, Goryachkina, Sanal, Wang Yiye, Rohan, Vignesh, Mohammad, Saiyn, Christiansen and Derakhshani (12 players)
Born in 1999 – Wei Yi, Rambaldi, Aravindh, Lorpanzangeneh, Haria and Li Di (6 players)
Born in 2000 – Moroni, Puranik, Vogel and Abdumalik (4 players)
And the eight youngest:
Tabalabael, Amin (IRAN) 2482 (2001)
Aryan, Chopra (INDIA) 2436 (2001)
Gholami, Aryan (IRAN) 2422 (2001)
Siva, Mahadevan (INDIA) 2400 (2001)
Raja, Harshit (INDIA) 2325 (2001)
Vaishali, R. (INDIA) 2313 (2001)
Firouzja, Alireza (IRAN) 2313 (2003)
Abdusattorov, Nodirbek (UZB) 2429 (2004)
There are 7 from China, 12 from India and 6 from Iran on the list. It will be interesting to see how the youngsters fare in the next few years.
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Round 6 takes place on Boxing Day. Tomorrow, Christmas is a Rest Day.
Harshit Raja, all of 14 years old, had to tack on 205 ELO points just to get his rating (2325) high enough to qualify for Qatar. His Rapid and Blitz ratings still lag at 2006 and 1986 respectively. He's the untitled 124th seed but that hasn't stopped him from putting forth a TPR of 2633, on pace for a GM norm! He'll play his 5th consecutive GM on Saturday.
With draws on the top 5 boards, Carlsen retains his 1/2 point lead with 5/6. The same 8 names stay 1/2 point behind at 4.5/6. Joining them are the 5 winners who previously had 3.5/5, namely, Harikrishna, Jakovenko, Ponomariov, Ni Hua, and Sjugirov. I'm guessing Carlsen will have White against Kramnik tomorrow since the colours match up. I was hoping Shakh might get paired with Giri tomorrow but they are both due White. Giri would likely have been the solid betting favourite and Shakh perhaps the likely winner so I definitely smelled a bet forthcoming. (:
N R Vignesh (2422) continued his amazing run with a draw against Yifan Hou today. The 17-year-old Indian IM has now played 6 strong/elite GMs, all more than 200 ELO points higher rated, except for GM Mateusz Bartel who was 'only' 198 ELO points better, and has yet to lose a single game, with 2 wins and 4 draws. His TPR of 2809 will drop back into the 2700's after today's game is factored in. Nonetheless, he's now guaranteed a GM norm tomorrow regardless of how he fares (:
Speaking of GM Mateusz Bartel, he's the last game still going today as he plays out a theoretically drawn endgame against GM David Howell. Bartell has a lone Rook while Howell has a Rook and Bishop. The 50-move rule will kick in at move 157 (they are at move 130 now). Stockfish amusingly values the Bishop at 0.76 (:
Speaking of GM Mateusz Bartel, he's the last game still going today as he plays out a theoretically drawn endgame against GM David Howell. Bartell has a lone Rook while Howell has a Rook and Bishop. The 50-move rule will kick in at move 157 (they are at move 130 now). Stockfish amusingly values the Bishop at 0.76 (:
They played all 50 moves. British GM Keith Arkell would not be proud of his fellow countryman, GM David Howell. Arkell is said to have won this ending all 18 times he's been given the opportunity, a rather remarkable statistic given it is a theoretical draw with perfect play (:
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