2010 Nanjing

ketchuplover

Isolated Pawn

Only Chess

18 Oct 10

ketchuplover

Isolated Pawn

Wisconsin USA

Joined: 09 Dec 01
Moves: 71666

18 Oct 10

Features Anand,Carlsen,Topalov,Wang,Gashimov,& Bacrot. Double Rd Rbn 10 games for each player. Rounds begin 2:30 a.m. New York time

May God have mercy on their souls.

Thabtos

I am become Death

Joined: 23 Apr 10
Moves: 6343

19 Oct 10

May God have mercy on their wardrobes!

I imagine your performance rating takes a bit of a hit when you have to dress up like an Aixinjuelo Puyi cosplayer.

elady

Jerusalem

Joined: 20 Sep 04
Moves: 37178

19 Oct 10

only anand and bacro played good in last month. It will be very interesting to c how Topa and Magnus will play now

nimzo5

Ronin

Hereford Boathouse

Joined: 08 Oct 09
Moves: 29575

19 Oct 10

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prediction-
Carlsen underperforms
Anand finishes 2nd
Kramnik punches Topalov.. jarring loose a wireless device
Gashimov switches to Chinese federation
Bacrot is seen getting on a flight to Macau
Wang loses half his games.

DivGradCurl

Joined: 24 Jun 10
Moves: 1686

20 Oct 10

Originally posted by nimzo5
prediction-
Carlsen underperforms
Anand finishes 2nd
Kramnik punches Topalov.. jarring loose a wireless device
Gashimov switches to Chinese federation
Bacrot is seen getting on a flight to Macau
Wang loses half his games.

lol rec'd.

Personally I'm looking forward to Wang Yue's games. He's like my favorite player when he loses. He plays so absolutely technical his losses are great for study: you get to see how a grandmaster wears down perfectly inoffensive play. Hope he loses to Topalov.

Would also like to see Anand win maybe 1 tournament while World Champion. So my vote goes to him. I'm guessing Carlsen's probably contracted the traditional chess player's syphilis so he's probably out of the running.

nimzo5

Ronin

Hereford Boathouse

Joined: 08 Oct 09
Moves: 29575

28 Oct 10

Not looking like Wang is going to score 50% - whereas Bacrot is showing that he deserved to be included, Wang appears a lot more like a rank and file player than a super gm.