Rock me Amadeus
1 February 2010, 14.47 CET | By José Diaz | Filed under: Cartoons | Tags:
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Live ratings - updated March 12, 2010
| Rank | Name | Rating | Change | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Carlsen | 2813,0 | 0 | 0 |
| 02 | Topalov | 2812,2 | +7,2 | 10 |
| 03 | Anand | 2791,2 | +4,2 | 3 |
| 04 | Kramnik | 2790,0 | 0 | 0 |
| 05 | Aronian | 2783,2 | +1,2 | 10 |
| 06 | Grischuk | 2769,6 | +13,6 | 10 |
| 07 | Mamedyarov | 2763,3 | +3,3 | 2 |
| 08 | Wang Yue | 2751,1 | +2,1 | 1 |
| 09 | Ivanchuk | 2749,6 | +1,6 | 2 |
| 10 | Svidler | 2742,5 | -7,5 | 5 |
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Just great!
humorous, but that was a photo finish with Shirov and Kramnik 1/2 point off and Caruana, trying his best to knock Carlsen off the pedestal. Life is so tough at the elite level that some fun can be had at their expense! Next year, Giri wil get to see why Corus B is more fun than primadonna A.
not one of your best Diaz…..pretty lame and silly actually…
Try for better please!
not one of your best comments ceann….pretty lame and silly actually…
Try for better please!
Probably ceann hasn’t seen the movie Amadeus and was quick to judge (again). I thought this was a marvellous cartoon!
oh I’ve seen it Moll….and the comment still stands.
A wonderful cartoon! It’s great to have some imagery to compliment the lrationality of chess. I’m imagining that in the cartoon Kramnik is portrayed as Salieri, Carlsen of course as Mozart. But I don’t know the faces on the notes -are they ex-world champions, or current elite players? Great stuff anyway!
The idea of caricatures is that you should be able to tell who they picture. So saying it’s a wonderful cartoon and then saying that you can’t tell the faces is quite hilarious. Hey, I can’t even tell who’s supposed to be Salieri here. Is it Kramnik? If so, why are we comparing one of the greatest players of all times with a nobody like Salieri? Don’t even get me started on the smaller faces, they’re not even remotely similar…
@teaspoon: The idea is that the other notes depict the rest of the Corus A players. It does take some effort to determine who’s who, though.
To me, it’s pretty obvious that Carlsen is Mozart and Caruana is Salieri in this cartoon, and that the musical notes depict the rest of the players (including Caruana again) according to their final standings… Caruana plays for Italy, Salieri was italian.
The cartoon, I assume, is based on the composers’ relation as portrayed in the film… which, however, is completely fictional – Salieri had a great reputation, he wasn’t the “bitter lesser composer” the film presents.
That said, I loved the cartoon!
Caruana is Salieri, of course, trying (and failing!) to block God’s masterplan with the wunderkind. (Quite fitting not only because of the last-round encounter between Caruana and Carlsen but also because of the allusion to Caruana’s Italian name, like Salieri.) The other players can easily be spotted since they are drawn in the order of the final ranking of the Corus A group, with Shirov and Kramnik on top. While all others in the picture look sour, a laughing Carlsen easily plays the tune the others were aiming for so desperately – in fact making a parody tune of them! – again referring to one of the movie’s themes in a subtle manner. Of course if you want to nitpick like some people apparently always want to, the details don’t always fit (Caruana is not really Italian, Carlsen hardly ever laughs, etc.) but nothing is perfect. This is pretty close though IMO.
Also people may not be aware that Carlsen has been nicknamed “The Mozart of Chess” since he was 13…
I liked it
Well I have to give it to you that Magnus does look funny, I can even tell who he is. But Caruana? Come on.
Well I think the caricatures are great! Especially Kramnik, Leko, Tiviakov and Van Wely. And not only are most of them very funny and recognisable, they even look angry or sad depending on their character (of course anand looks a bit sad rather than angry, he’s a nice guy!). For me Caruana is also very nice, especially with the salieri-twist added. I like the slight nastiness in this cartoon (could even be nastier for my taste, but I guess the intention is to keep them from being offensive to the depicted). Keep up the good work!
I do not understand this cartoon. There are 15 people but only 14 played in the a-group.
Wijking rulez!
this would be a great cartoon for a tournament like nanjing . Here carlsen wasn’t that dominant to be presented like this i think, although i must admit it was an inspired picture..:)
Brilliant! I agree that Caruanas roll is not very true to life. He has no real reasson to envy Magnus at this stage. On the contrary he ended the tournament with a very nice gameand is clearly a man for the future. But the cartoon is hilarious!
The notes seem to represent (from top to bottom, following the swirl):
Shirov, Kramnik, Anand, Nakamura, Karjakin, Ivanchuk, Leko, Dominguez, Caruana, Van Wely, Short, Tiviakov, Smeets
The colours correspond with the scores.
why would anand be one of the notes being played by carlsen? i would rather be world champion than win corus A.
Why would Anand be one of the notes being played by Magnus carlsen? i would rather be world champion than win corus A.
Rock me baby, listen B.B. King’s song which particularly inspired the cartoonist certainly. Rock me Amadeus! Rock me baby!
Chess players don’t need to analyze everything. Just sayin’
The little faces are hilarious!
Tiviakov is the best!!! LOL
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The guy standing next to Carlsen I think is meant to be Topalov.
salieri = giri !
the cartoon is even posted on the home page above the carlsen shakes hand of giri photo!