2016 World Chess Candidates (Moscow, Russia)
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The World Chess Candidates eight-player tournament has includes six of the world’s top ten players. Former World Champions Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov will face a coterie of young talent for a right to challenge Magnus Carlsen for the chess crown. There have been a number of predictions posted on various sites which favor Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura as favorites. Levon Aronian will see if he can break the mold of his disappointing runs for the championship. They’ll also be joined by Russian duo of Sergei Karjakin and Peter Svidler. Anish Giri is hoping to make a breakthrough in his first Candidates tournament. Winning this supertournament would be the biggest of his short career.
Eight of the world’s top grandmasters come to Moscow to play in the tournament that will be contested as a double round-robin over 14 games. The winner will play a match for the title against reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen next November in the US.
The eight participants in the Candidaes tournament will be Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria and Anish Giri of the Netherlands, who qualified based on their ratings; Viswanathan Anand of India, the runner-up of the last championship match in 2014; Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana of the United States, who were the top two finishers in the last Grand Prix; Sergey Karjakin and Peter Svidler of Russia, the winner and runner-up, respectively in the last World Cup; and Levon Aronian of Armenia, a wild card choice.
The guaranteed prize fund of the Candidates Tournament will be in excess of 420,000 USD. First prize is €95,000, second €88,000, third €75,000, fourth €55,000, fifth €40,000, sixth €28,000, seventh €22,000 and eighth €17,000.
The time control for the games is 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, 50 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, plus an additional 30 seconds per move starting from move one. More details are given at the links below.
Main Site: https://moscow2016.fide.com/
Regulations: https://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/regscandidates2016.pdf
Pairings: https://www.thechessdrum.net/tournaments/WorldCandidates2016/Candidates_Tournament_2016_Pairings.pdf
Schedule: https://moscow2016.fide.com/schedule/
March 11th-March 27th, 2016 (Moscow, Russia) |
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Name
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Title
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Federation
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Flag
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Rating
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| 1 | Caruana, Fabiano | GM | USA |
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2794 |
| 2 | Giri, Anish | GM | Netherlands |
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2793 |
| 3 | Nakamura, Hikaru | GM | USA |
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2790 |
| 4 | Aronian, Levon | GM | Armenia |
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2786 |
| 5 | Topalov, Veselin | GM | Bulgaria |
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2780 |
| 6 | Anand, Viswanathan | GM | India |
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2762 |
| 7 | Karjakin, Sergey | GM | Russia |
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2760 |
| 8 | Svidler, Peter | GM | Russia |
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2757 |
UM rootin for Sunil’s Son to beat theses guys hes in his prime , who yall got? oh dunno why he gave Carjakin a piece.
We have great players, but the next Fisher is clearly not here yet. So Magnus will continue to govern.
Of course Naka touched his King and whisper j’adoube after the fact, he even expressed confusion when Levon pointed this out, nevertheless; after a minute or so of thought he did move his King. Let’s not forget how Naka dominated super tournament in 2015, ah not that long ago, and was asked a ridiculous request after he won the tournament, by none other than the tournament organizer, to play a mini speed match against Anand for the title!! Naka even accepted and stopped the interview to prepare for this match. This revealed the level of his class, not a split second “touch move incident”. This tournament is not over and Naka is capable of coming out on top and challenging Carslen for the world title.
WOW missed this , unfortumate to lose in such a way, good to hear from ya Glenn lol, Daaim if ya see William the Terminator Morris see if u can drag him outta the backroom and come to the chessdrum ya know many young heads on here can learn alot from his wisdom in chess when he decides to put it forward. Ya know drummas or children in chess can no longer afford to wait on some gm to start some talkin so i guess we gotta do it for them, right adia?
Keeping it real….
Many Americans and non American have relentless hope for Nakamura to ascend to the top.
However, truth is Nakamura peaked a couple of years ago after winning the Tal Steel tournament.
He cannot win elite tournaments, however, he is certainly capable of winning non elite tournaments.
Ie…Elite tournaments – invitational 2700 & above.
Lately there has been a string of incidents regarding his over the board play…early draw at Millionaire Open and on two occasions the touch move rule.
His presence at a tournament previously caused an excitement among the masses. But what we are now seeing is a fall from the ranks.
well naka has the talent to comeback and still win but u just gotta want to do it is all, so i wish him well.
Daaim you put Dee’s statement in context, and I must agree with you. I’ve also have heard all these statements about Naka’s playing abilities, just check his score against the top ten and it will show he has a plus score. This is not news, but what is interesting is Anish inability to find a simple move like 24. Ke1 in his 9th round game against Fabiano. Anish should have won that game but the “Artist” wanted to draw.
Well the chess looks pretty decent but Um wonderin about Pete Myers does he still practice with the traditionalist, i see Caruana got a chance in this event so thats cool too.
Whats HUMAN GENIUS?
Today, Anand gets beat up by Nakamura’s English opening prep in open tactical game. As they say in boxing, “styles make the fight”
Nakamura +6-1=12 versus Anand
Anand nearly even with Carlsen at +8-10=38
and Nakamura famously doesn’t match up well versus Carlsen +0-12=18
Great game by both players! Rxd5!! not hard to see for Sergey but difficult for most players. Looking forward toward to Carlsen vs Sergey.