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TOURNAMENT STANDINGS
GRENKE Chess Classic Tournament
Magnus Carlsen4.5/7(+3 -1 =3)[games]
Arkadij Naiditsch4.5/7(+2 -0 =5)[games]
Michael Adams4/7(+2 -1 =4)[games]
Fabiano Caruana4/7(+1 -0 =6)[games]
Levon Aronian3.5/7(+1 -1 =5)[games]
Etienne Bacrot3.5/7(+0 -0 =7)[games]
Viswanathan Anand2.5/7(+1 -3 =3)[games]
David Baramidze1.5/7(+0 -4 =3)[games]
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Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
GRENKE Chess Classic (2015)

The 3rd GRENKE Chess Classic was played in Baden-Baden, Germany 2-9 February 2015. Rounds began each day at 3 pm, with a single rest day on Thursday 5 February.
Carlsen and Naiditsch both got 4.5/7. After 2-2 in the playoff (two rapid games and two blitz games), Carlsen won the final Armageddon game Carlsen vs Naiditsch, 2015.

Official site: http://www.grenkechessclassic.de/20.... ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/grenk... Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/car... Crosstable (http://www.chess-results.com/tnr160...) :

             Elo   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 Carlsen    2865  * 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1  4½
2 Naiditsch  2706  1 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1  4½
3 Adams      2738  0 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 1  4
4 Caruana    2811  ½ ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½ ½  4
5 Aronian    2777  ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ 1 ½  3½
6 Bacrot     2711  ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½  3½
7 Anand      2797  0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ * 1  2½
8 Baramidze  2594  0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 *  1½
Previous edition: GRENKE Chess Classic (2014). Next: GRENKE Chess Classic (2017) (there was no tournament in 2016).

 page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 28  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Bacrot vs D Baramidze ½-½312015GRENKE Chess ClassicD70 Neo-Grunfeld Defense
2. Aronian vs Carlsen ½-½642015GRENKE Chess ClassicD36 Queen's Gambit Declined, Exchange, Positional line, 6.Qc2
3. Adams vs Naiditsch ½-½612015GRENKE Chess ClassicC07 French, Tarrasch
4. Caruana vs Anand ½-½382015GRENKE Chess ClassicC53 Giuoco Piano
5. D Baramidze vs Aronian ½-½412015GRENKE Chess ClassicC65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense
6. Carlsen vs Adams 1-0642015GRENKE Chess ClassicA29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto
7. Anand vs Naiditsch ½-½532015GRENKE Chess ClassicD41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch
8. Caruana vs Bacrot ½-½542015GRENKE Chess ClassicD70 Neo-Grunfeld Defense
9. Bacrot vs Anand ½-½372015GRENKE Chess ClassicC67 Ruy Lopez
10. Adams vs D Baramidze 1-0312015GRENKE Chess ClassicC78 Ruy Lopez
11. Aronian vs Caruana 0-1402015GRENKE Chess ClassicE32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
12. Naiditsch vs Carlsen 1-0612015GRENKE Chess ClassicB06 Robatsch
13. Anand vs Carlsen 0-1362015GRENKE Chess ClassicA90 Dutch
14. Caruana vs Adams ½-½432015GRENKE Chess ClassicD11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
15. D Baramidze vs Naiditsch 0-1272015GRENKE Chess ClassicA30 English, Symmetrical
16. Bacrot vs Aronian ½-½302015GRENKE Chess ClassicD38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation
17. Naiditsch vs Caruana ½-½652015GRENKE Chess ClassicC89 Ruy Lopez, Marshall
18. Carlsen vs D Baramidze 1-0492015GRENKE Chess ClassicC95 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer
19. Aronian vs Anand 1-0342015GRENKE Chess ClassicD38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation
20. Adams vs Bacrot ½-½652015GRENKE Chess ClassicA15 English
21. Bacrot vs Naiditsch  ½-½372015GRENKE Chess ClassicE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
22. Caruana vs Carlsen ½-½262015GRENKE Chess ClassicC67 Ruy Lopez
23. Aronian vs Adams  ½-½562015GRENKE Chess ClassicA29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto
24. Anand vs D Baramidze 1-0652015GRENKE Chess ClassicC95 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer
25. Carlsen vs Bacrot ½-½462015GRENKE Chess ClassicA48 King's Indian
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Feb-04-15
Premium Chessgames Member		  HeMateMe: CNN says that Norway has a sex-themed park called Vigeland, in Oslo. I thought those folks in Norway were pretty reserved, but you just never know, now do you?
Feb-04-15
Premium Chessgames Member		  chancho: <Magnus Carlsen @MagnusCarlsen · 3h 3 hours ago

Well, that's my fourth third round loss in a row #funfact>

Feb-04-15  bobthebob: <I've seen Brilliant moves, I've seen (and played) some God awful moves, I even seen illegal moves.>

Well, in this case I don't think Carlsen tried any illegal moves. Unlike ...

Game Collection: Carlsen's cheating attempts

In this case, I think he was overconfident and not respecting his opponent's skill - so he tried to be Tal-like thinking he could work his way out of a bad position after his attempt to bluff his opponent failed.

Feb-04-15  alfamikewhiskey: Sex-theme is a bit rich (<https://www.google.no/?gws_rd=ssl#q...>), but nudity is omnipresent. It actually bugs a tourist or two.

Apropos fun fact: A couple of the scenes from the 1983 film Gorky Park were not shot i Moscow, or the Eastern Europe, at all, but in, yep, the Vigeland Park. Off-off topic OFC.

Feb-04-15
Premium Chessgames Member		  HeMateMe: I loved that movie, intriguing.
Feb-04-15  jphamlore: Norway also has some fantastic contract bridge players, although I think a couple of them, Helgemo and Helness, now play for Monaco.
Feb-04-15
Premium Chessgames Member		  keypusher: <bobthebob: <I've seen Brilliant moves, I've seen (and played) some God awful moves, I even seen illegal moves.> Well, in this case I don't think Carlsen tried any illegal moves. Unlike ...

Game Collection: Carlsen's cheating attempts>

Back to playing the buffoon, Bob? Shall I dredge up some more of your past idiocies re Carlsen?

I'm sure Carlsen hates losing, but his defeats don't seem to do him nearly as much harm as they do to you.

Feb-04-15  jphamlore: At least one can't accuse Carlsen of becoming a boring draw machine post-championship.
Feb-04-15  suenteus po 147: <keypusher> I loved your post about coming to a better understanding of how we define what we mean when we say "positional" or "tactical" to describe a player's style. Very thoughtful, with some great criteria to chew over.
Feb-04-15  1d410: If you don't have command of both positional and tactical chess you can't be on top.
Feb-04-15  jphamlore: And then there's this way of thinking at the chess board that Botvinnik derided:

https://mccreadyandchess.wordpress....

<Botvinnik: 'As far as Garik [Kasparov] was concerned, I immediately came to blows with him. For he first made a move and only then thought about it. While the proper order is, as you know, the other way around. 'Watch out', I used to say to him, 'if you go on like this you’ll become a Taimanov or a Larsen. Garik' (!?). These two were the same even when they were grandmasters -first move, then think. Now young Garik was very insulted by this, because he wanted to be an Alekhine'>

Feb-05-15  Severin: Caruana faces his nemesis Michael Adams next round.

<Michael Adams beat Fabiano Caruana 6 to 2, with 2 draws.>

Feb-05-15  bulibug: <I've seen Brilliant moves, I've seen (and played) some God awful moves, I even seen illegal moves.>

I've seen a weak viking discarded down the deep ravine....

Feb-05-15  Appaz: <<HeMateMe> CNN says that Norway has a sex-themed park called Vigeland, in Oslo. I thought those folks in Norway were pretty reserved, but you just never know, now do you?>

An artists celebration of human life, activity and body is pornography to an American, no surprise there.

If Gustav Vigeland had filled the park with humans mutilating each other, no American would probably have bat an eyelid. Except if they where naked doing so, of course.

Feb-05-15
Premium Chessgames Member		  HeMateMe: CNN was deceptive in it's reporting. If someone tells an American there is a "sex themed park", they see that as a water park, or amusement park--it is there for participation.

I knew it couldn't be true.

Feb-05-15  pinoy king: Carlsen needs his daddy when he loses. Acts like a little baby.
Feb-05-15  kummatmebro: He can act however he wants when he is probably going to keep the world title until atleast 2020
Feb-05-15
Premium Chessgames Member		  HeMateMe: I say he keeps it until age 35. No one around right now can beat him. The 15 year olds, Wie Yi and Atemisov, might be the one's to catch him.

Caruana will be karpov's Korchnoi.

Feb-05-15  Absentee: <HeMateMe: Caruana will be karpov's Korchnoi.>

I believe Karpov's Korchnoi was Korchnoi.

Feb-05-15  Sokrates: Vigeland Park - see for yourself: http://www.vigeland.museum.no/en/co...

It's works of art that cannot be explained by one-liners.

Feb-05-15
Premium Chessgames Member		  HeMateMe: <I believe Karpov's Korchnoi was Korchnoi.>

I wish I'd said that.

Feb-05-15
Premium Chessgames Member		  perfidious: <plang: ...but I'll have to remember that one...next time I lose a game of chess it is because "I'm experimenting">

Perhaps you were 'hiding prep', or in certain regions, the sea air had its effects--never mind that you were far away from any ocean!!

Feb-05-15  Imran Iskandar: Quite excited by the Anand-Carlsen one-game rematch.

On a different note, I feel like Caruana's not preparing his openings enough. Maybe he's just playing too many tournaments in a period of time.

Feb-05-15  anandrulez: There is a possibility of over exhaustion for Caruana. Aronian also seems to be exhausted. Intelligence is a limited resource like many other resources.

Anand is not playing creative chess as far as I can see .Its still good for top 10 level though. His draw/error rate has become very high which is worrisome. However I think that is something you should expect from a player at 45. Age waits for none.

Feb-05-15  Octavia: <Age waits for none.> lol - agist
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