Carlsen must be reading these comments on chessvibes

Hmmm, I wonder what the Carlsen-deniers will come up with this time?! ;-)

"you are missing the point, as usual"

Probably, but admit that it's just awesome that Carlsen has crushed Ivanchuk six times in four years while Anand and Kramnik together have one measly win in ten years!

you are missing the point, as usual. ivanchuk at bazna is defeated by carlsen, karjakin twice, and nisipeanu. he is playing below his potential, and these ups and downs of ivanchuk are well known. So in some events he is " shaky and easier to beat" (I'm still not sure who blueofnoon claims to be quoting by the way). That has nothing to do with Carlsen or any other player.

There's no denying Carlson!

Carlsen has the will to fight and to win, just like Fischer and Karpov and Kasparov. Well done Carlsen, full point well earned!

6-2 to Carlsen head to head against Ivanchuk now, the two losses came in 2008.

Nice Swindle and 'Rekthna' Win !!!!!

Carlsen is now close to his all-time-high. His liverating is 2824,3. I think he is very focused on winning this tournament, and be the new #1 in the next FIDE-rating. He wants to tell the chess community that he is the best player in the World, no matter what the "Gadaffi-clan" think...

if he wins the remaining rounds, will he surpass garry's record?

NOT what we will watch, but what we would like to!

Sincerely... Anand vs Carlsen or Anand vs Gelfand?
What we rather watch?

this win goes straight in top 5 games by carlsen

Carleen will wait all actual strong players get older then become WCCh, easily !!

Magnus is a rare talent, we all have known that for a while. In this sense there are probably no genuine Magnus haters at this point in time.

A lot of us wanted to see Magnus challenge Anand for the WC title.

A lot of us, if not most of us, also wanted to see Magnus take on Kramnik in the Candidates final, and wondered if he could actually beat Kramnik one on one.

None of those things happened because Magnus shied away from the Candidates. The only conclusion is - he did not want to play 1-2-1 matches with either Kramnik or Anand or for that matter with any other Candidates qualifier. Magnus does not yet have the confidence or the stomach for a 1-2-1 fight.

He is happy with tournament play where, undoubtedly, he has been the most successful player over the last couple of years.

In any case,
Carlsen's game reminds me those grandmasters draw at 8 or 18 moves, saying, it was a drawn position, no need to play etc.:)

This right left was very much Capablanca like.

This game against Ivanchuck is much what Carlsen is about:
sqeeezing half a point more out of the position than most of us would think possible. That makes him 2824 (by now)

I agree with other kibitzer.

Whoever wants to support and finance Anand - Gelfand, it would be good for chess. But I doubt the match will even take place.

FIDE said the deadline for bid application is end of June (or maybe July, I am not sure), and has anyone made an official statement for application?

Ivanchuk has often been tough to beat for the top players. The last ten years Anand has beaten him once while Kramnik hasn't won even once during the same period. Amazing that Carlsen already has six wins against him since 2007.

Carleen will wait all actual strong players get older then become WCCh, easily !!

Carleen will wait all actual strong players get older then become WCCh, easily !!

Where exactly did Nisi have an advantage over Nakamura in game 1? If anything, it seemed like Black was better on the Q-side.

I´m one of the biggest fans of Ivanchuck.
But I´m must say:
"Chucky got out-Cucked by Carlsen!"

good lord. is this Human play? from now onwards if someone says that the position is drawn i will shown him this game.

When I read all this Carlsen´s fan club boys commentaries about their hero , I think they believe that Carsen is already a better player than Karpov and Kasparov at theirs prime. I think that they believe Smyslov´s 45 years (1938- when at 17 he won extremely strong Moscow Championship -1983) among the 10 best players in the world are nothing compared to Carlsen´s results. This fan club boys even say that an Anand -Gelfand will not happen..... . Honestly speaking, are there people funnier than Carsen´s fan club members??

Not one comment about the opening used, the system entered into, Chucky's overestimation of his position, and Carlsen's exploitation of that.

Just the regular endless infantile churn.

I can't say I take these discussions the least seriously, but they are fun anyway since some people get so annoyed when Carlsen is doing much better than their favourite players :-)

Carlsen's 6-2 against Ivanchuk can't just be explained away as Ivanchuk's "fault" since the latter does have much better stats against other players. As I said Kramnik hasn't beaten him in ten years in spite of Ivanchuk's being uneven.

I can especially recommend studying the games between Kramnik and Ivanchuk, the latter looks enormously strong in them. He missed a win and lost in Corus 2001, he probably missed wins in Tal Memorial 2009 and Corus 2010, he won in Dortmund 2008 etc, and still has +1 -1 =16 in their last 18 games, like Anand.

But against Carlsen Ivanchuk usually gets into much more trouble. As against Karjakin this week, but before that Ivanchuk had 4-0. So maybe Carlsen is good at creating problems for Ivanchuk, Aronian seems to have the same ability.

I wonder if Chucky proposed a draw at some point and Carlsen refused?
Either way, Chucky must feel bad after losing a game that looked like a sure draw.
Well played by Carlsen.

After seeing Magnus' game, you 'd think Karpov was his trainer, not Kasparov.

What I find so fascinating is that Carlsen wins a lot of games against 2700s in a text book style of play. Although I think Rogozenko got it bang on when he said that he wins by "finding every possible way to give his opponent ways to go wrong, however slightly."

So, do you think that he reached +2800 just by playing at chesscube? ;)

frustrating internet transmition of this TURNELULUI

In Nisi-Nakamura, why not try 12...Nc5 instead of Qc7? It would somewhat relieve the pressure on d6 while targeting the e4 pawn. Black can swing a rook into the c5 as well.

Current Tpr compared to rating suggests he is out of form now. Play as well.