The World Chess Candidates Tournament – London 2013 last round

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Carlsen
(Photo is taken from the official site of the event)

Carlsen is the winner of the Candidates Tournament after a dramatic round when both leaders suffered a loss, but Kramnik had 5 victories while Carlsen had 6! According to FIDE calendar the World Championship Match between Carlsen and Anand is going to happen from 6-Nov-2013 to 26-Nov-2013, so pretty soon! 🙂

GM Carlsen Magnus 2872 0-1 GM Svidler Peter 2747
GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2757 1-0 GM Kramnik Vladimir 2810
GM Gelfand Boris 2740 1/2 GM Grischuk Alexander 2764
GM Aronian Levon 2809 1-0 GM Radjabov Teimour 2793

Aronian-Radjabov was a quiet 5.h3 system of the KID and seems like Black equalized in the opening. Later on white exchanged a Q for two rooks but Rf1 wasn’t active. Perhaps it was a good idea to play 26…Qd2 to prevent it from playing Re1-e2. And 29…a4 was a mistake, instead Black should have protected f7 with the help of Kg7 and Qf5 when it is very difficult for white to do something real.
Carlsen-Svidler was an unusual game :). Svidler played very well and equalized, spending relatively little time for good moves, while Carlsen in an atypical way for him, spent a lot of time and got into time pressure already around move 20.
Kramnik played the Pirc against Ivanchuk, which is usually his choice of opening when he needs to win. Ivanchuk again got into time pressure but managed to outplay Kramnik in it and win.
Gelfand tried the rare 5.Bd2 line in the Gruenfeld against Grischuk but didn’t manage to get advantage and the game was the first to finish.

Today is the closing ceremony.

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Top 100 Women April 2013

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Also here little had changed as the first five players haven’t played any games :). I am on the 40th place in the world :).

1 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2696 0 1976
2 Hou, Yifan g CHN 2617 0 1994
3 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2597 0 1987
4 Muzychuk, Anna g SLO 2585 0 1990
5 Zhao, Xue g CHN 2565 0 1985
6 Lagno, Kateryna g UKR 2550 8 1989
7 Dzagnidze, Nana g GEO 2545 8 1987
8 Kosintseva, Nadezhda g RUS 2531 0 1985
9 Sebag, Marie g FRA 2527 2 1986
10 Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2525 9 1979
11 Cramling, Pia g SWE 2525 0 1963
12 Cmilyte, Viktorija g LTU 2522 4 1983
13 Ju, Wenjun wg CHN 2521 9 1991
14 Kosintseva, Tatiana g RUS 2517 0 1986
15 Gunina, Valentina m RUS 2510 12 1989
16 Harika, Dronavalli g IND 2509 2 1991
17 Ruan, Lufei wg CHN 2501 0 1987
18 Kosteniuk, Alexandra g RUS 2496 7 1984
19 Khotenashvili, Bela m GEO 2492 8 1988
20 Zhu, Chen g QAT 2491 0 1976
21 Ushenina, Anna g UKR 2488 8 1985
22 Muzychuk, Mariya m UKR 2483 10 1992
23 Tan, Zhongyi wg CHN 2483 9 1991
24 Paehtz, Elisabeth m GER 2479 20 1985
25 Danielian, Elina g ARM 2478 20 1978
26 Zhukova, Natalia g UKR 2476 8 1979
27 Hoang, Thanh Trang g HUN 2476 0 1980
28 Pogonina, Natalija wg RUS 2473 7 1985
29 Zatonskih, Anna m USA 2471 17 1978
30 Krush, Irina m USA 2470 10 1983
31 Huang, Qian wg CHN 2469 7 1986
32 Mkrtchian, Lilit m ARM 2466 11 1982
33 Girya, Olga wg RUS 2464 25 1991
34 Javakhishvili, Lela m GEO 2464 7 1984
35 Galliamova, Alisa m RUS 2458 6 1972
36 Moser, Eva m AUT 2456 11 1982
37 Atalik, Ekaterina m TUR 2455 0 1982
38 Socko, Monika g POL 2451 5 1978
39 Hunt, Harriet V m ENG 2450 0 1978
40 Dembo, Yelena m GRE 2448 0 1983
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