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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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Alekseenko's been calculating for 30 minutes on how to prevent a knight fork against Caruana. He's gotta be calculating pretty hard on a few options, because the immediate move to parry the threat [15. ...Rb8] seems fairly obvious even to a terrible amateur like me- probably a good sign that the position is really complex once you get into the variations.
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Poor Radjabov.
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Mar 26, 2020 14:14
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Sub Par posted:Radjabov got hosed. 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.
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Mar 26, 2020 14:30
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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 mean, I can see how people would think that, but he went as far as revealing the team of seconds he assembled for Candidates (incl. Karjakin and Dominguez) so it's clear he was taking it seriously after that one interview done flush in the emotions after a big tournament. I'm still on board with "2020 sucks but can't be fixed, so here, have a golden ticket into 2022"
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Mar 26, 2020 19:52
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