It's funny that Chessbase mentions that Carlser "crushed" Nakamura with black when in fact it was a nice positional work.
Anybody noticed that In the opening Carlsen knocked the e6 bishop down when he was going to play d5?. I think that following basic chess rules and etiquette he should have moved the bishop instead.

I thought the rules only specified you had to move a piece you touched if you intended to touch it.

too bad that we couldnt REALLY follow the games in real time.

and too bad also that Zidane couldnt make it. a good head in head with all this emotional naka-carlsen thing could have gave us some AIR.

Who are the greatest blitz players in history?
Can Carlsen,Aronian or Nakamura match up to Anand or Tal in their prime.

Nakamura has real problems in overlooking knight forks: see his earlier (long) game Vs Grishuck, Vs Carlsen (Nxa6), Vs Kariakin (Ne7+), etc ...

According to "www.russiachess.org. the standing after round 28:
1 Aronian- 18.5
2 Carlsen- 17.0
3 Kramnik- 16.0
4 Radjabov-16.0
5 Nepomniachtchi-16-0
6 Gelfand- 15.5
7 Nakamura- 15.5
8 Grishuk- 14.0
9 Lagrave- 14.0
10Mamedyarov- 14.0
11Eljanov- 14.0

which part wasn't writting in English?

I grant you there might be some English english (slang) in their, if so, i apologize if it was too English for you.

why are people getting so worked up about a blitz tournament

I see Nakamura steped up the pace today. But still far from being a dominant force in blitz that he is supposed to be.

The top performers of the 2nd day are:
9.5/14 - Nepomniachtchi
9.0/14 - Radjabov
8.5/14 - Aronian and Savchenko
8.0/14 - Nakamura, Vachier Lagrave and Mamedov
etc.

Kramnik scored 7.5 and Carlsen only 7.0 on the 2nd day.
Svidler and Mamedyarov scored the least points (4.5/14) on the 2nd day.

LOSERS CRUSH /ANNIHILATE/STOMP DREAM TEAM

TAL TOP 10 (1st day) 66.5 Yesterdays suckers BTM 10 73.5

*subject to recount

What a difference a day makes

for all you guys who read so much into yesterdays results - hope THE CROW TASTES GOOD

headline ripped from all the Carlsen crushing titles so much in vogue by the Chess Press recently

For what it's worth, Carlsen has mostly bottom-rated players to play in the last 10 rounds, which might give him an advantage for the last day's play.

I think Carlson opted out of the World Championship cycle because he knows he stands a better chance in a round-robin multi-player scenario than a real one-on-one confrontation with Anand.

He may not have the stamina or maturity to win against Anand just yet. So he carefully avoided the whole thing since his elo rating gives him the #1 status that he can enjoy.

He wants to stay #1 and the only way to do that is to keep doing well in multi-player tournaments and keep his elo rating going up & up.

However I think the whole thing was orchestrated by his Daddy who secretly fears Anand.

Kramnik tries all the tricks, but machine is relentless :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JXMBAFdSQ

You shouldn't use big words like "nobody" if you don't know what they mean.

err cus it's the olympics

btw i think i'm better qualified to speak than most on here, as i once beat vachier legrave 3 blitz games in a row

and i've also beaten grischuk, andrekin and others in that field at blitz. but i'm no where near them in ablity, even though i'm a grandmaster.

so blitz is just random. and yes nakamura is a phenomenal blitz player. he could be easily the strongest blitz player in the world, he's certainly the strongest 1 min player who's ever lived. but you can't judge things on one tournament. if the same tournament was run next week you'd most likely get a different result.

Actually Turtle your argument could be said for ANY tournament even at standard time controls. the top players will win and luck is always a bit of a factor as well. Just less so in slower time controls.

As a note: My predictions are holding so far with Aronian in the lead.

If blitz was just random, how come that generally there is a good correspondence between rating and ranking? The 'predictable' tailenders Grachev and Mamedov beat Carlsen and Aronian, respectively - so there may be randomness for single games, but not regarding the tournament as a whole.

Nakamura is a good blitz player, but apparently not the very best by a big margin. From two options - "maybe he isn't THAT strong after all" or "he MUST be out of form and unlucky" - I choose the former. At least, claims last year that Carlsen could only win last year because Nakamura wasn't invited (and didn't bother to qualify) are on the same level as anyone saying this year "the winner was lucky because Ivanchuk and Anand didn't participate".

Where can I find the live standings?

Aronian is the new World Blitz Champion!

Well, he was lucky because Anand and Ivanchuk didin't participate...

Aronian won by half point ahead of Radjabov. One could think Aronian lost some nerves on last rounds because he was leading by larger margin, but in fact what occurred was a great equilibrium among most players. During Capablanca times, he would win such tournament by a much larger margin...

Final score:
1 Aronian - 24.5
2 Radjabov - 24.0
3 Carlsen - 23.5
4 Gelfand - 21.5
5 Nakamura-21.5
6 Karjakin -20.5
7 Kramnik-20.5
8 Mamedyarov-19.5
9 Svidler - 19.5
10 Eljanov -19.0
11 Grischuk-19.0
Well, looks like Nakamura although he did ok, did not crush the competition like babies as predicted.