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| Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
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2 | 13.33% |
| Ding Liren |
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8 | 53.33% |
| Anish Giri |
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0 | 0% |
| Sasha Grischuk |
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1 | 6.67% |
| Kirill Alekseenko |
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0 | 0% |
| Ian Nepomniatchni |
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2 | 13.33% |
| Wang Hao |
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0 | 0% |
| Fabiano Caruana |
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2 | 13.33% |
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I really wanted to see Radjabov and I feel really bad for him, even though I do enjoy watching MVL. The two games with results today were crazy. Giri playing like a machine and then blundering his queen, and then Ding with a big blunder as well. I was fairly confident we'd see Fabiano come out on top again, and today's results haven't changed that for me.
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Hand Knit posted:The two draws also could've easily been results as well. Hell of a round one. I wonder if Ding's thrown off by having to gently caress around in a hotel for two weeks before playing, since he really just kind of exploded. I was wondering that myself about Ding. It was just such bad (for a GM, not saying I could spot the errors in real time) positional chess from Ding. I'm used to watching him just build a commanding position and turn the screws of a flawless endgame so seeing him blow up like this was really unexpected.
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Mar 17, 2020 18:27
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Hand Knit posted:He played a really good game, but basically just missed black being able to manoeuver the rook to g6. If he sees that he knows he has to prepare f4 and can't just play it, and I really think that's a winning game for white before f4. After Rg6 he's in an awful spot, even if he had a saving tactic (which he missed due to having 30 seconds on the clock). Ahh ok I didn't notice the time issue, I wasn't watching that one live. Thanks for the explanation.
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Mar 17, 2020 18:40
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I like Nepo but for the sake of making the tournament more interesting, I'm really happy that MVL won today.
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Mar 25, 2020 17:01
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Radjabov got hosed.
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Mar 26, 2020 14:25
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Mukaikubo posted:He did. Unfortunately there's not a good way to fix it this cycle. I'd be sympathetic to giving him an automatic makeup Candidates berth in 2022, but do you take away the WC slot and FIDE just has to swallow the loss of money from being less attractive to organizers, take away one of FIDE's own precious tournament slot ways to qualify, or make it a 9 man tournament in 2022? I would think FIDE would do the clumsiest possible thing and that'd be 9 man Candidates. Agreed. The second they started the tournament, it would be more unfair to the other players than Radjabov to cancel it or restart it or whatever. I don't know what would be "fair" for 2022 really. As you say, a 9 person candidates feels like the weirdest outcome so that is probably what they will do. FIDE really screwed this up, it's embarrasing. Radjabov at least seems pretty calm and realistic in this interview. I just feel bad for him. I also feel bad for Nepo and MVL who seemed to be playing well and now abruptly have to stop. Edit: Wow, did Magnus really suggest that Radjabov was dropping because he was afraid/didn't really want to play? That's pretty douchey. Sub Par fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Mar 26, 2020 |
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Mar 26, 2020 14:38
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jvilmi posted:Radjabov himself, after qualifying, said he doesn't know yet whether he'll want to play at the candidates or not, so that's not a completely unfair suggestion. I hadn't seen that. I saw an interview he gave right after winning the World Cup where he specifically mentioned he planned to start preparing for the Candidates. Edit: Ok I found the interview you're talking about. I still think the speculation on Magnus' part is poor form. Sub Par fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Mar 26, 2020 |
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