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Oct-14-13
 | | perfidious: The concept of fairness does not necessarily come into play, and Caruana will doubtless earn his chance-may not be now, though, and he fell short in the Grand Prix. That is cold reality. |
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| Oct-14-13 | | Shams: <perfidious> The concept of fairness *should* come into play though. If not Caruana, that spot will instead go to someone else who also fell short in the Grand Prix. It would have been nice if Caruana had controlled his destiny though; you're right about that. |
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| Oct-14-13 | | devere: If I was Caruana I would consider emigrating to Russia next week, assuming that Vlad Putin offers him the appropriate deal. Russian tax rates are low also. |
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| Oct-15-13 | | SirRuthless: Sorry, fab. Tough sledding near 2800...I still think he will win the wildcard slot. |
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| Oct-15-13 | | Kinghunt: The curse of 2800 strikes again, it would seem. The force is with you, young Caruana, but you are not a Jedi yet. |
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Oct-15-13
 | | tamar: Caruana is fighting hard, but a rook down is hard to save. |
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| Oct-15-13 | | virginmind: Still 37.fxg3 looked such a natural move...what can be wrong with having to defend against one pawn instead of two (connected), and aditionally you're sustaining your h4 pawn, then the queen will come over to help and everything seems fine...in time trouble that is. Or was it not? |
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Oct-15-13
| | tamar: All over now. f2 pawn was too big a Sisyphean boulder. |
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| Oct-15-13 | | SirRuthless: 37.fxg is horrible. That rook does no work on f1 at best and at worst it is imprisoned for good without compensation. He had to be looking for perpetuals at that point but Caruana's blitz skills are not on par with most of the very elite. |
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Oct-15-13
| | tamar: Caruana is dwarfed by his chair. If FIDE had weight classes, these guys would be #1 and #2 bantamweights. |
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| Oct-15-13 | | csmath: This whole game between Caruana and Wang is not exactly an example of good chess on this level. |
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| Oct-15-13 | | SirRuthless: <csmath> I will be looking forward to your analysis of this game. |
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| Oct-15-13 | | csmath: I am waiting for cg.com to post game page. Boy, this is one really bad game throughout. |
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| Oct-15-13 | | The Last Straw: Wang Hao is doing the same Norway Chess thing: Losing to the lowest-rated player, but winning against the highest-rated. |
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| Oct-15-13 | | framsey: <The Last Straw> But does he raise the level of his game against the best, or do the best just overlook him? Judging by this game, the latter. |
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| Oct-15-13 | | The Last Straw: <framsey> Good point. |
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| Oct-15-13 | | SirRuthless: I don't think players overlook him. I think he has been out of form recently. I also think he is an inconsistent player who loses badly on his bad days where other seem to be able to draw on theirs more often. Hopefully this win will kickstart him back into the mid 2700s and beyond. |
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| Oct-15-13 | | csmath: Wang Hao plays wild chess. You can call it creative and imaginative but quite often that is also simply a bad chess. |
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| Oct-16-13 | | Calar: Radjabov - Caruana was early draw ended in perpetual chess. Congrats to Caruana for his well deserved victory :) Caruana has shown excellent chess in the last year or so, amplified with consistent good results. I think he deserved to be nominated as wildcard in the Candidates tournament. |
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| Oct-16-13 | | SirRuthless: <Calar> Tell that to the Russians. Personally I think he should play a mini-match with Nakamura for it. They are 3.5 rating points apart on the live list and Nakamura is +3 vs Caruana this year with a couple of draws and no losses. The Russians will probably give it to Svidler or Grischuk. |
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| Oct-16-13 | | DanteAlighieri: Caruana-Nakamura would be a great match! Who could sponsor it? Maybe Rex Sinquefield? |
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| Oct-16-13 | | csmath: Russian organizer will chose Russian player, no doubt just like Italian organizer would chose Caruana or American would chose Nakamura. The problem here is with FIDE if they give this event to Khanty-M. It is too far, too remote, and away from public eye. I do not understand how can that help to promote the event but I guess they have no money otherwise. Event in Khanty-M without Carlsen (likely), without Nakamura, without Caruana and with 50% of Russians will not attract any attention apart from hardcore chess afficionados. I have nothing against Khanty-M but they should start organizing supertournament (create their own event ...say Kasparov "Memorial") rather than getting FIDE events repeatedly. |
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| Oct-16-13 | | SirRuthless: Looks like Wang Hao has found something... Good to see him winning games again. Two big wins against staunch defenders. |
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| Oct-16-13 | | SirRuthless: <csmath> Why do they keep getting FIDE events? What political element in FIDE continues to provide them hosting rights to major events and why do they do it? |
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| Oct-16-13 | | parmetd: scary that because Ivanchuk and Ponomariov have done so poorly rating wise recently that eljanov is ahead on the ukranian list (as spot 1). no insult to him, just last time he held the number one spot for month it was after an amazing surge of 50+ points on his own accord before he regressed to the mean. |
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