A fter two editions dedicated to the glories of the years 80-90 and the third edition which has represented a very strong tournament of XX category, the Kings' Tournament reaches now its top level (rating average 2742). This year's edition is a part of the Grand Slam Circuit and is special first of all thanks to the participation of the magnificent Norvegian Magnus Carlsen, which at only 19 years old has a rating of 2813 and is the world number 1 player! The previous year's winner, the Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk had to play in Cuba in this period and has been replaced by his fellow countryman, the ex-FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov. Other participants are: the 2009 World-Cup winner Boris Gelfand, the best Chinese player Wang Yue, the second-best Azerbaijani player Teimour Radjabov and the best Romanian player Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. The competition will take place from the 14-th to the 25-th of June in Medias (in the heart of Transilvania) and taking into consideration the above-mentioned outstanding players it will certainly provide us with great and spectacular chess.
Ranking crosstable after Round 6
Rk. Name Rtg FED 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1 GM Carlsen Magnus 2813 NOR *** ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 4,5 3 0,0 11,00
2 GM Radjabov Teimour 2740 AZE ½ *** 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 3,5 2 1,0 10,00
3 GM Gelfand Boris 2741 ISR ½ 0 *** ½ 1 1 ½ 3,5 2 0,0 8,50
4 GM Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter 2672 ROU 0 1 ½ ½ *** 0 ½ 2,5 1 0,0 8,00
5 GM Ponomariov Ruslan 2733 UKR ½ 0 0 0 1 *** ½ 2,0 1 0,0 5,75
6 GM Wang Yue 2752 CHN 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ *** 2,0 0 0,0 5,75
Then Carlsen played the already famous candidate match vs Aronian in the summer of 2007.
I remember this one, was extremely exiciting and thrilling.
They played 3.0-3.0 in the normal long time control match, then 2.0-2.0 in the rapid tiebreak before Aronian won 2-0 in the blitz tiebreak to win 7.0-5.0 in total. http://www.chessbase.eu/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3904 http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=61997
Aronian was rated over 60 points higher than Carlsen at this time.
Then Carlsen played the already famous candidate match vs Aronian in the summer of 2007.
I remember this one, was extremely exiciting and thrilling.
They played 3.0-3.0 in the normal long time control match, then 2.0-2.0 in the rapid tiebreak before Aronian won 2-0 in the blitz tiebreak to win 7.0-5.0 in total. http://www.chessbase.eu/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3904 http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=61997
Aronian was rated over 60 points higher than Carlsen at this time.
It is possible he hits 2850 soon. I don't think it will mean the same as when Kasparov hit 2850 or when Fischer hit 2700. Rating inflation is getting worse and worse...
