| Oct-03-12 | | FairyPromotion: Thanks CG!! Topa managed to grab the bishop for a pawn! I hope he manages to pull this off, so we can have a 3 way tie for the top spot! |
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| Oct-03-12 | | Octavia: Giri resigned & all games over |
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| Oct-03-12 | | FairyPromotion: And Giri resigned! As a Topalov fan, I am really happy. Yeah hoo!! |
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| Oct-03-12 | | mike1: well, last game of the tournament and too easy for White.
Giri should(and could) resign. Congrats to the 3 winners; well done |
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Oct-03-12
 | | chessgames.com: Congratulations to the three winners, all finishing on 7/11: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Veselin Topalov, and Boris Gelfand. Also, thanks to all of you for participating in our live chess broadcasts of the London Grand Prix. We'll be doing this again soon, on October 8th when the Bilbao Masters (2012) resumes in Spain. Hope to see you then! |
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| Oct-03-12 | | whiteshark: How could Giri lose such a position? 
click for larger view |
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Oct-03-12
 | | tamar: Giri overlooked a pawn break for the second game in a row, 34...h3! While this was not necessarily fatal, you can see in the video replay his composure is altered. He shakes his head leaving the board at 2:21:35, and when he returns, he continues to shake his head, and look upset. |
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Oct-03-12
| | tamar: Quite an interesting postmortem discussion (at low volume)from Giri and Topalov I managed to glean that Giri was playing for a win with 31 h4, but Topalov was questioning some of his decisions. As they were leaving the board, Topalov gave Giri a little pep talk "I've lost dozens of games in my life from drawn positions, dozens..." |
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| Oct-03-12 | | Eyal: <tamar> Thanks for the heads-up - a pity they didn't put microphones close to the players like that in all of the games... (In Nakamura-Giri you could clearly hear several minutes of post-mortem discussion during the live broadcast, but apparently Macauley Peterson cut them out now and left only the short interviews which he did with the players after that.) |
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| Oct-03-12 | | master of defence: Nice move, 48...Ra3!, threatening mate with the knight on d6 or c3. But, why not 49.Bc5? |
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| Oct-03-12 | | Prugno: After 49. Bc5 Nxc5 50. bxc5 (50. Rd8+ Ke4 is no improvement, as after f2 Black will be able to block the 'f' file with ... Rf3 and force an immediate queening) there is no Bishop to defend f2 any longer: so 50... Rb3+ (I guess the immediate f2 also works, but this looks nicer) 51. Ka4 f2! 52. Rf8 Rb2, and with e4-e3 coming White will soon have to give up his Rook. This is the kind of game which you can describe in two ways: if you are a fan of Black, you can say "great perseverance and endgame technique by B.", while if you dislike White, you just quip "careless and immature play by W." |
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| Oct-05-12 | | hellopolgar: the difference between Anish Giri and Magnus Carlsen Magnus Carlsen does very well against Veselin Topalov , yet Veselin Topalov completely dominates Anish Giri http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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| Oct-05-12 | | rapidcitychess: <the difference between Anish Giri and Magnus Carlsen> 110 rating points? Different names, height, ages, and looks? One is a model, one is not? Giri doesn't hail from Norway? |
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| Oct-07-12 | | hellopolgar: what i meant was, their record against Topolov reflects their skill difference better than just mere 100ish rating points. many players are roughly equal even their ratings indicate otherwise. |
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| Oct-09-12 | | rapidcitychess: I know, I was just joking. I was a little bit worried it would come off as too biting and sarcastic. Anyways, I suppose if you want to compare players you should compare head to head match ups, rather than ratings. That makes more sense to my little brain. |
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| Oct-10-12 | | hellopolgar: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... <Classical games: Anish Giri beat Magnus Carlsen 1 to 0, with 3 draws.> but we know that Carlsen is a better player. |
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