Corus: <Anand could have claimed a draw by repetition by playing 63.Ra7!>

Corus: <The game would most probably have ended in a draw, but Gelfand failed to notice a small nuance and was mated>

Linares: <Alexei Shirov suffered a painful blunder loss against Teimour Radjabov>

Baku: <the American GM was hanging on until a blunder that came as an unexpected gift for his Azeri opponent>

Sofia: <Aronian blundered one move before the time controls [---] to throw away the full point against Teimour Radjabov>

regarding Carlsen's "luck":

as you probably know, every top player gets into bad positions every now and then, probably mainly because of opening preparations. Carlsen tends to do it less then most other top GMs but it happens to him too. obviously playing worst position is <significantly more difficult> then playing better or equal position, thus, most top GMs tend to loose in such cases. Carlsen however, tends to find resources even in such bad positions, thanks to his strong intuition and deep understanding of the game. <that is not luck at all>: but simply extremely strong play under much worst conditions, that in some aspects is even more impressive then winning thanks of better opening preparations.

similar things can be said about winning positions that are considered drawn: coming to think about it, even the initial position in chess is probably drawn under best play from both sides: thus, the player who will win that initial (drawn) position will usually be the one who understands that position better then his opponent, and that can be said on every position in chess, even those who seem simplified in the first place.

one of the many reasons Carlsen is now (unofficially) ranked #2 in the world is because he has such deep understanding and resourceful thinking that allows him to get best out of every position.

On the subject of chess genii: Korchnoi: "If to speak about modern chessplayers, Russian chessplayers, I consider Morozevich to be very talented, I feel that his talent became apparent in childhood, but I did not see him working hard. As for the chessplayers of the West, I liked Anand very much I played against him several times and I saw his improvement. Genius is a very strong word! Nevertheless, he was close to this definition.

Magnus Karlsen made good, even strong impression on me. It seemed to me that the main thing was not a chess aspect, but his extraordinary strong psychology and he uses psychological aspect of his mental power (something of that kind) over the board. I saw him playing a game against Shirov in the tournament where he did not shine out, and during the game it seemed that he should have struggle for a draw, he had a worse position, but he suddenly played an incredible combination. I thought that Shirov was really more psychologically vulnerable than other strongest grandmasters, the same thing felt Karlsen and he decided to risk: instead of playing for equalization, he posed such a problem for Shirov, which he did not manage to solve. However, speaking objectively, Shirov could have managed and could have won the game. However Karlsen decided that he could venture out with Shirov! Now he has one success after another, he takes great strides forward, and it seems even strange to me because he did not "glow" that much last year, I played with him in a tournament in Norway - nothing special. And now he beat down one after another in Khanty Mansyisk - well done! I'll repeat that we speak not only about a chess genius, but about human mental power, not only a chess one. I'm not a psychologist, so it's difficult for me to find an appropriate term. Young Karlsen is a mong such people."

If Karlsen keeps developing with the same speed, how do you think, when will he become number one?

"In view of your question, I'd like to remember Mikhail Tal's creative development. He really had a bright talent, he did not make an impression of a hard worker, but of a man with ingenious ideas. He had a strong psychology and he managed to defeat almost all modern grandmasters with rare and obscure exception - he lost to Keres and to me, and to no one else. Perhaps, even very likely that Karlsen will come across very strong people, who will not fall under non-chess influence."

korchnoi is an entertaining guy to listen to, but maybe he should only be taken half seriously. ;-)