Everybody praises Topalov for his great tournament performance (not that surprising as he was an indomitable player in the mid-2000s) but I guess, as it happened in the past, again and again, Mamedyarov's equally creditable performance is ignored - I think, he is the biggest surprise of the tournament.

Thanks to the organizers for the tournament and especiall for the very good coverage with the live streams.
From the chessy point of view a lot of new moves were uncovered, for example the Rh4 in Leko-Grishuk, -c5 (Kasim vs. Topalov), the-Bd5 from Wang Hao (vs. the Sozin) and others. We see that almost all -e5 Top players have the Berlin now on their sleeves and that the Berlin is now constantly avoided, either by an early d3 or by Re1.
I think no player was too dominant this time, but the three winners and Grischuk played a little more constant than others. All of them had hardly difficult positions (except the 2 losses against Sacha Grishuk that very classy).

Nice event! Kg6?? from Kasimdzhanov seemed very odd although he was already losing at that time. It was a very evident mating pattern. Surprisingly, in the poll results before the tourney, the combined votes for Mamedyarov, Topalov and Gelfand are less than those for Nakamura. Quite underestimated winners :)

Will be rooting for Svidler in the next event!! And it will be nice to see Gashimov in a top tourney; that has'nt happened in a while.

topa completely outclassed giri, at the end the moves f3 and Ra3 where so damn sexy, giri didn't see the mate threat coming forcing the loss of his bishop. brilliant stuff, def fast forward on the vid to see this point in the game. giri kept playing quickly before and after while topa took his time. brilliant, giri really needs to slow his endgame play down

Nice to see that one tournament where no triebreaks are used - in a round robin, they are all entirely arbitrary anyway.

It was fun to hear the discussion just after the game between Giri and Topalov, at the end it sounded as if the latter was trying to comfort Giri: "I've lost dozens of games from drawn positions! Dozens of games!"

TOPALOV IS BACK IN THE SADDLE!

I thought Grischuk was quite impressive. On some other occasion he won't miss the winning continuations he had at his disposal with black against both Wang Hao and Kasimdzhanov. He could easily have been sole winner with +4 but now ended up as fourth instead.

Congratulations to the winners, all three : Topalov , finally a comeback , Mamedyarov for a nice combination of solid and wild games and Gelfand - he managed to overcome the age gap by top preparation and strong will.

Congrats Toppy ! A job well done !

Great tournament ! Great games ! Congratulations Mr Topalov !

Congrats to MyamedarovFan and Agon and Paulson!

Someone said it before but now it came true: 1-4 are the guys who qualified for candidates the last time..Coincidence ?? Giri was a bit of a surprise for me, I hope this dissapointing result won't stop him from chosing for chess. Just a year ago he was equal to Caruana and I'm sure he can do a lot better.

Quite a preposterous result. Such a big tournament and basically no result. Chess needs real tie breaks by playing rapid games on the last day. This would be a highlight for the audience and much more fair for all players. All sports produce a winner. Why can't chess do that properly? Or is there too much money in chess that no one needs to care about such an insignificant detail?

congrats to the winners

http://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/FIDE_GP_Regulations_2012_2013.pdf. has the GP bonus as 50, 30 and 10. Did it change?

So what are the GP points fit the 3 winners now

Can someone remind me: how many people will have qualified for what if this GP is concluded ? Matches or (I suppose) one final tournament to select the final candidate?

U can freeze Leko today ,burn down his house, insult all his relatives and marry his girlfriend , then wake him up for a game of chess , he will still accept our draw offer in move ten.
Congrats Topa!!!!!