Well done gelfy. Show them why you were and are a worthy WCh contender.

Now the Top Seed is at the Bottom!

That's got to be the shortest grandmaster draw by repetition in the last decade!

As I said before (during Anand x Gelfand match) : Gelfand seems to have a "boost-propeller" in classifying events of World Championship...

Great to see HN playing aggressive variations trying to win with Black.

Top Seed ....... Bottom Fish!

Nakamura ...bad Sushi. Sorry, but since his fling with Krapsparov he's gotten rotten, worse.

Hanging out with the wrong crowd man......sad.

It is no wonder he thought the 2012 Wch Match Anand vs Gelfand was boring; he knows nothing about CHESS.

After round 1 (Gelfand had beaten Nakamura, or Nakamura lost against Gelfand) our resident Gelfand hater redivivo wrote:
"The simple truth is that all the top players see a draw against Gelfand as such a failure that they do everything they can to avoid it."
Can we now conclude that Nakamura, Wang Hao and Adams are top players, while Gelfand's other opponents aren't (including - this time - Ivanchuk who accepted a move repetition in an unclear position with little time on the clock)?

[redivivo]: "I don't think he [Gelfand] will finish anywhere close to the top this time either."
Anything can still happen in the last four rounds: If Gelfand loses all of his remaining games he'll finish with -1 (still better than some "expert predictions"!?). If Nakamura finishes with 4/4 he may still win the tournament.
But if the situation remains unchanged, then what is wrong with the format of the London GP? After Kazan, the format was blamed for allowing Gelfand to finish ahead of higher-rated players ... .

Agressive? He was playing inside his last 3 ranks for most of the game, building up a museum of amateurish weaknesses... This bad mannered guy is a far cry of a great chess player...

Naka's real rating is like 2730+

Mamedyarov had such an awesome structure built up today!! All pieces in ideal conditions. The game will be very instructional in the dos and donts of opening/middlegame theory. Apart from Gelfand, even this guy has performed pretty well. Three wins for him too (Although a loss has kept him behind).

Gelfand´d performance remembers me how strong Karpov was. The israeli GM had already beaten Kramnik and Adams before in a match but could not handle a 44 year old Karpov in 95 ( Tolya won 6,5 - 3,5 ) . Sad that there are no players nowdays that could be compared to Anatoly and Kasparov.

I don't understand how do u put carlsen, aronian and very like carunana in karpov or kasparov bracket.These players haven't even won candidates match not even word championship challenger.Just wining tournament doesn't put these players in all time great players.Let them prove by wining candidates and WC and defend it for years then we can think about putting them in all time great.

Nak decided it was time to turn the beat around and risked everything for a win. The KID game has this characteristic of "do or die". Incredible.

I like the game Adams-Gelfand. Complex play. Hard to pinpoint where White went wrong.

Naka if after 7 rds you look around the room and dont know who the rabbit is,......it'e YOU.
Its so satisfying to see the mouthy so called american fail in top class events again while over in Sau Paulo Tootsy is 3 wins from 4.......maybe perhaps maybe YOU are overated Naka.......as said before you are a top 20 player at best, face it and go back to playing 1/0 chess and flagging.

Naka 2800 + by the end of the year ?

Sometimes I feel more reminded of Wrestling here. Reading some comments I wonder if those writers do play chess on a decent level. In tournament practice, I realized such disrespect only in lower classes.

The geniality of Gelfand is: he is a mature player and can smoothly readjust his strength depending
on the importance and priority of the events. Play by need !