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Oct-25-12
 | | kingscrusher: <Kinghunt> She did win Gibraltar though beating loads of 2600+'s including Shirov. |
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| Oct-25-12 | | arkansaw: Shirov is actually a 2700 having a bad time.
Carlsen should be exempted from the top 10 listing since he is practically unassailable within the near future, might as well free up the spot for another 2700+. Hou needs fashion and makeup tips from the Russian ladies, that will make her pretty instead of just young. Radjabov has been very steady for the past year, as opposed to Nakamura. |
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| Oct-25-12 | | Blunderdome: Tradewise Gibraltar (2012)/Yifan Hou The two games against Short are rapid tiebreaks. |
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| Oct-25-12 | | brankat: <Blunderdome> <Not a question of gender, all the players I root for are young and pretty :) See my profile.> One indeed does learn something new every day! First time I hear of Gelfand and Chucky being young and pretty :-) |
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| Oct-25-12 | | Eyal: Yeah, Gibraltar was a superb performance by Hou – the best of her career by quite a margin, I suppose. She actually didn't meet a single 2600 player there (http://ratings.fide.com/individual_...), but she beat four low 2700s (Almasi, Polgar, Le, Shirov) and drew with Adams & Mamedyarov; overall she scored 8/10 vs average 2632 opposition, which is a TPR of 2872. But in general, her performances in open tournaments ("open" in the sense of playing with men, not necessarily of non-invitationals) are of very mixed quality. This year, she also did well in the Reykjavik Open, but had mediocre-to-poor results in the Bangkok Open, the Chinese championship, 3rd Danzhou Tournament (2012), and she doesn't seem to do very well here either. Perhaps <Kinghunt> is right that it would help Hou's chess if she just dropped out of the women WC cycle (which accounts for nearly all the "women events" she's been playing lately) and focused only on events where she has the chance to play with stronger opponents, but that would involve giving up the status of a world champion and also quite a bit of money, I suppose. |
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| Oct-25-12 | | parmetd: Blunderdome: <brankat> Not a question of gender, all the players I root for are young and pretty :) See my profile. I don't think a single person on your list is pretty and with the exception of Hou - NONE of them are young either. |
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| Oct-25-12 | | rapidcitychess: < <Blunderdome> <Not a question of gender, all the players I root for are young and pretty :) See my profile.>
One indeed does learn something new every day! First time I hear of Gelfand and Chucky being young and pretty :-)> Or Kramnik. :)
(Sorry Kramnik... I know you still think you are the young and pretty guy from the 90s... Although I'm not sure you were pretty then.) |
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| Oct-25-12 | | kurtrichards: <...see my profile.> Maybe another profile. But where is it? |
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Oct-25-12
 | | Sneaky: Kramnik has always been the personification of "handsome". Proof: http://nezhmet.files.wordpress.com/... |
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| Oct-25-12 | | Blunderdome: <But in general, her performances in open tournaments ("open" in the sense of playing with men, not necessarily of non-invitationals) are of very mixed quality> Actually, I think her form varies a good deal whether she's playing women's or open, it's just not as obvious in the ladies' events because she'll still achieve an equal score or a small plus when she's "off." Every time she's had a minus score in an open event an least one person will say that she needs to quit playing women's events or she'll never improve, and usually a few kibitzers will take the opportunity to trumpet about how she is no Polgar and never will be. (I suppose if you are a Polgar fan there is not much to do but revel is past glories, no?) It's also true that whenever she has a big success many people leap from their chair to proclaim that she will reach 2700 within six months. I suppose this is part of the fun of sport -- believing that there is some meaning or new trend to be discovered in all the random variance. |
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| Oct-26-12 | | Naniwazu: I really hope Hou Yifan can regain her form before the World Chess Championship tournament in November. |
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| Oct-26-12 | | Caissanist: <They rarely, in my opinion, actually win anything, so it's strange that they are so high up on the rating list.> This is reminiscent of Reshevsky, who in the fifties was accused of "boring his opponents to death". This prompted Larry Evans to comment that "if this is a new way of winning then I would like to learn it". |
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| Oct-26-12 | | Arcturar: <Blunderdome <They rarely, in my opinion, actually win anything>
I don't think that whether a game is won, drawn or lost depends on your opinion.> Of course not, but whether I choose to classify their winning frequency as "rare" DOES depend almost entirely on my opinion. Caissant, I get what you're saying. But my point is that Radjabov, for instance, often doesn't try to win at all. Maybe the best example of this is his last round game versus Aronian at Tata Steel 2012. He didn't try boring Lev to death, and didn't attempt any other method. He just gave up the tournament without any fight at all and didn't seem to regret anything. I get that these guys make a living off of chess and that 2nd-place prize money is probably still very good, but come on. It's like the guy would rather earn 2 Silvers than a Gold and a Bronze, which is dissapointing. |
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| Oct-26-12 | | Kanatahodets: Tivi-Giri: draw. Still the white's pawn e5 is the only strength of white's position. But I se nothing but a draw.
Hou-Naka: draw. I don't see a possibility of sharpen the game here. |
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Oct-26-12
 | | chessgames.com: We'd like to point out that the final round game, Nakamura vs Tiviakov, 2012, will be open to everybody. Game starts at the same time, 8:00am USA/Eastern. Hope to see you there! |
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Oct-26-12
 | | Dionysius1: Thanks <chessgames.com>. Generous, and I'm looking forward to it. |
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| Oct-26-12 | | bubuli55: Looking forward to last round. Yifan should be coming out with all guns blazing. Giri will have his hands full. And Tiviakov. No push over. Highest rating 2697. I have a feeling he will be all in. He could be rewarded with a championship! Good luck! |
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Oct-26-12
 | | HeMateMe: You said it, pardner! That 'lil ol lady gonna draw a Colt .45, and get things done! |
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| Oct-27-12 | | Atking: Good to see Nakamura winning again. Congratulations! |
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| Oct-27-12 | | Eyal: In terms of points and W/D/L rate, the final crosstable looks exactly like that of last year's (15th Unive (Crown Group) (2011)), with the winner - and rating favorite - again winning all his games with White and drawing all his games with Black. Considering the lineup, though, one might have expected Giri to preserve his 2nd place rather than dropping to 3rd... |
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| Oct-27-12 | | Eyal: More than half of the games (7/12) were Sicilians. |
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Oct-27-12
| | HeMateMe: Is there a Hou/Giri game missing, from the cross table? Just a draw? |
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| Oct-27-12 | | refutor: <sneaky> if kramnik ever logs an account here i hope he chooses the username <mulletor> ;) |
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| Oct-27-12 | | Eyal: Nakamura regains 5 of the 31 rating points that he dropped recently in the Grand Prix and ECC (http://www.2700chess.com/glass.php?...), which puts him at no. 13 in the live rating with 2760. Giri loses 9 points, which together with his recent results at the GP and ECC constitutes a 24-points drop (http://www.2700chess.com/glass.php?...), putting him at no. 40 with 2706. |
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Oct-27-12
| | Dionysius1: Good to see Nakamura's win. May it be the start of a recovery. |
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