I never take of my shoes when it rains..

In the game of Wang-Radjabov, I'm a little surprised about the comments after move 27. It states that black wins back the pawn with equality after 32...,Qh2. I think White is better there after 33.Bxb7, grabbing another pawn and giving only one back (for example 33...,Qh3 34. Kf2, Qh4 (Qh2 35. Bg2; Qxg4 35. Qg1) 35. Ke2 and white remains a pawn in front I think.
I expected instead of 32....,Qh2 black to play 32..., Bb5, which seems enough compensation to me. Anyone comments?

How many in a row for Carlsen if he wins this one??? Anyone know the reckord for top level tournament wins in a row?

This guy is on the verge of making top level chess boring if he keeps on like this.... Another 2 or 3 tourney wins and he`ll be a 2850 player i reckon. Let`s get the candidates tournament going already and give the guy some competition!!!

Hmmm.... aren`t Grand Slam wins the way to qualify for that anyway? Funny if everyone else has to qualify through second places or other channels..

There is a mistake in the results table: Nisipeanu Carlsen 1-0! :)

Mrs Polihroniade is also known in Romania as a very strong boxer due to some physical conflicts that she had with local journalists.

@Webbimio Thx, corrected.

The funny thing is: I looked at the results and saw Nisipeanu Carlsen 1-0, then watched the game (I didn't noticed the "0-1") that finishes with A WHITE MOVE, and wondered for ten minutes what the hell was the reason for Carlsen to resign! :)

Carlsen is not even close with number of consecutive tournament wins. What does he have? 3 or 4 now? It's not even close!

Kasparov won all tournaments he participated in between 1982 and 1990. At the same time he managed not to lose a match against Karpov (they played 5 World championship matches between 1984 and 1990).

Kasparov hasn't lost a match or a tournament for 9 years!

It's not even a race.

Kasparov used the threat of KGB to ensure his opponents lose against him. Other times he would slam doors off their hinges to intinidate opponents. Keep the crap about Kasparov aside.

And Kasparov only had to use his prep against Karpov, ready made stuff from preparations during WCC matches. Big deal.

"It’s not even a race."

Of course it is a race. Although it has just begun. Carlsen got a kick start on his career, but still has a long way to go. He certainly is speeding up. Let's check the score sheets in a year, after the Candidate tournament is finished, if he will be a WC challenger or not.

Kasparov said the door stuck-he wasn't trying to be rude.

could someone tell me what the "BH" in the last column of the crosstable means?
thanks in advance ;-)

Buchholz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchholz_system

It's not really useful as a tiebreaker in a round robin tournament, because if two players are tied on points, they will also be tied on the sum of their opponents' points.

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Bb5 is still pretty scary after 33. Bxb7

Carlsen is back with Dragon! It was a masterful play with deceptively quiet beginning. Yet once the position was opened, his pieces completely dominated. Nisipeanu is a great player, and that makes it even more impressive.Great to see Radijabov back on top ten as well. By the way, what Morozevich has been up to these days??

Steinitz won his last 14 games at Vienna 1873. He then won his first 11 games in his next tournament - Vienna 1882 (which Chessmetrics claims was the strongest tournament ever held as 9 of the World Top Ten played & all the top 8).

I don't think anyone has ever bettered this.

Fischer's best was 24 in a row : 4-0 in his last 4 games of the 1963 Western 0Oen, followed by 7-0 score in 1963 NY State Open (neither really world class opposition), then his amazing 11 out of 11 clean sweep at 1963-64 US Championship, & then 2 wins in the opening rounds of his next tournament, the 1965 Capablanca Memorial (including a win against Smyslov, who eventually won the tournament), before finally conceding a draw to Ciocoltea.

Personally I think Fischer's 20 in a row starting with the end of the 1970 Interzonal, then his two 6-0 1971 Candidates Match wins against Taimanov & Larsen, & the first game of his 1971 Candidates Match against Petrosian is more impressive as a performance because of the quality of the opposition. But it is mainly match games not tournament games.

So what is a winning streak of 3 compared with one of 25 ? Winning streaks of 3 are common as mud - Smeets & Giri both had 3 successive wins in the Dutch Championship that finished today. Peng had 6 wins in a row in the Dutch Women's Championship.

Anyone know what Kasparov's best streak was ? Or Tal's ?

"The Israeli GM was even more happy after the game when he heard Holland had won their second match at the World Cup." Perhaps he doesn't know the difference between Holland and The Netherlands? Or is our own Dutch reporter from Holland?

Nice report, BTW. Forgot to include that in my previous remark.