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Originally posted by vipiu
I would go for:

Aronian (he will be also in my bets for WC winner)
Leko
Rublevsky
Gelfand
Interesting games so far...I like the final combonation Grischuk did in the Grischuk-Rublevsky game

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I was just looking at some of the results here: http://globalchess.eu/main.php?id=21

What does TB mean?

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Oh wait I see now.

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1st round

Aronian and Leko were lucky
Grishchuk was strong
Short was unlucky
Bareev was sucky
Kamsky was absent
Gelfand was precise

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Originally posted by vipiu
1st round

Short was unlucky
Short? You mean Shirov, right ?

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Originally posted by BFM
Short? You mean Shirov, right ?
yeap

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Originally posted by vipiu
1st round

Aronian and Leko were lucky
Grishchuk was strong
Short was unlucky
Bareev was sucky
Kamsky was absent
Gelfand was precise
Kamsky's time management was bad after black played Kf8..after that he took forever on his move, Qc1, I knew it would have to be a draw for him...kinda sad though to have the only draw in that round

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Bump.

Aronian vs. Shirov is now 2-1 in Aronian's favor.
Leko vs. Bareev is now 2.5 - 1.5 in Leko's favor.
Grischuk vs. Rublevsky is now 2 - 1 in Grischuk's favor.
Kamsky vs. Gelfand is now 2 - 1 in Gelfand's favor.

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Originally posted by Ramiri15
Bump.

Aronian vs. Shirov is now 2-1 in Aronian's favor.
Leko vs. Bareev is now 2.5 - 1.5 in Leko's favor.
Grischuk vs. Rublevsky is now 2 - 1 in Grischuk's favor.
Kamsky vs. Gelfand is now 2 - 1 in Gelfand's favor.
Leko vs. Bareev is now 2.5 - 0.5 in Leko's favor.

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Originally posted by Korch
Leko vs. Bareev is now 2.5 - 0.5 in Leko's favor.
Oops, I mistyped.

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Kamsky played just about the worst game I have ever seen from a 2700+ player. It was appalling.

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Match 1
Aronian Levon (ARM) 1 ½ ½ ½ --- 2.5
Shirov Alexei (ESP) 0 ½ ½ ½ --- 1.5
Match 2
Leko Peter (HUN) 1 ½ 1 ½ --- 3.0
Bareev Evgeny (RUS) 0 ½ 0 ½ --- 1.0
Match 3
Grischuk Alexander (RUS) 1 ½ ½ 0 --- 2.0
Rublevsky Sergei (RUS) 0 ½ ½ 1 --- 2.0
Match 4
Kamsky Gata (USA) ½ ½ 0 ½ --- 1.5
Gelfand Boris (ISR) ½ ½ 1 ½ --- 2.5

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uau, Aronian - Shirov on move 30 with 1h40 minutes each...
so everything until now was preparation ?

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Originally posted by vipiu
uau, Aronian - Shirov on move 30 with 1h40 minutes each...
so everything until now was preparation ?
And it only took four more moves to make it a draw...

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I can't believe Bareev gave away the match by agreeing a short draw. What a wimp.