London Chess Classic

Originally posted by RBHILL
I see he has the highest rating in Rapid. But that men nothing.

Is there such thing as a blindfolded tournament? That would be awesome!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody_Amber

Who are going to be Qualifier 1 and 2 ????

Tomorrow are scheduled this games:

Round 1

14:00
Group A
Luke McShane v Vishy Anand
Qualifier 1 v Michael Adams

Group B
Vladimir Kramnik v Peter Svidler
Jonathan Rowson v Matthew Sadler

15:30
Group C
Boris Gelfand v Judit Polgar Gawain
Jones v Hikaru Nakamura

Group D
Nigel Short v David Howell Fabiano
Caruana v Qualifier 2

On the off chance that someone is following the live stream on a Linux box.. I had to ditch Adobe Flash and install Pepper Flash from Google Chrome otherwise it wouldn't play past a few seconds.

Jones v Hikaru Nakamura 1/2-1/2 🙁

Originally posted by Schlecter
Who are going to be Qualifier 1 and 2 ????

FRA (Andrei Istratescu 2670) and ISR (Emil Sutovsky 2657).

Judit Polgar v Hikaru Nakamura 0-1 🙂

Round 1











14:00


Group A


Luke McShane



0-1

Vishy Anand

Andrei Istratescu



0-1

Michael Adams






Group B

Vladimir Kramnik



1-0

Peter Svidler

Jonathan Rowson



1-0

Matthew Sadler





























15:30


Group C

Boris Gelfand



1-0

Judit Polgar

Gawain Jones



½-½

Hikaru Nakamura






Group D

Nigel Short



½-½

David Howell

Fabiano Caruana



1-0

Emil Sutovsky






Round 2






















18:00


Group A

Vishy Anand



½-½

Michael Adams

Luke McShane



1-0

Andrei Istratescu






Group B

Peter Svidler



½-½

Matthew Sadler

Vladimir Kramnik



1-0

Jonathan Rowson





























19:30


Group C

Judit Polgar



0-1

Hikaru Nakamura

Boris Gelfand



1-0

Gawain Jones






Group D

David Howell



1-0

Emil Sutovsky

Nigel Short



0-1

Fabiano Caruana

Merci Beaucoup and happy holidays 🙂

Originally posted by ketchuplover
Merci Beaucoup and happy holidays 🙂

Hikaru Nakamura ½-½ Boris Gelfand 🙁
He can probably only draw one more game.

Hikaru Nakamura 1-0 Gawain Jones 🙂
Works out for H.N. all he has to do Is draw J.P. and he will make it to round 1 of the playoffs.

Boris Gelfand ½-½ Hikaru Nakamura 🙁
Nakamura made it to the playoff round 🙂. All Groups have been desided except for group B.

Watching it live is cool with commentary!

Hikaru Nakamura ½-½ Judit Polgar 🙁
W2 L0 D4 to win group.

Quarter Finals 14:00 London Time
Group 1
Vishy Anand - Vladimir Kramnik

Peter Svidler - Michael Adams

Group 2
Hikaru Nakamura - Nigel Short

Boris Gelfand - Fabiano Caruana

Group A
1 Adams, Michael 12
2 Anand, Vishy 12
3 McShane, Luke J 4
4 Istratescu, Andrei 4

Group B
1 Svidler, Peter 11
2 Kramnik, Vladimir 9
3 Sadler, Matthew D 7
4 Rowson, Jonathan 4

Group C
1 Nakamura, Hikaru 10
2 Gelfand, Boris 9
3 Polgar, Judit 5
4 Jones, Gawain C B 7

Group D
1 Caruana, Fabiano 16
2 Short, Nigel D 10
3 Howell, David W L 5
4 Sutovsky, Emil 0

Nigel Short v Hikaru Nakamura 0-1 🙂

Andrei Istratescu beat Luke and drew Vishy. He was a qualifier from the LCC FIDE Open Tournament.