Thoughts and observations: 1. If Caruana draws or loses today, he drops to #3 on the live rating list, behind Ding Liren. 2. Nakamura has white against the lowest rated player in the tournament, an excellent opportunity to score a full point, but also to choke. There is pressure upon him. 3. So - Dominguez is the only game between two players on 3/5, as well as the only game between two 2700 players. Most likely a draw, but a win for either player would be very significant.
I was just gonna make a very inferior version of this thread
I do think that naka will win. When looking at the whole, Dominguez has played the most interesting games so far, so I am hoping the trend will continue
Jacob Ward
>I do think that naka will win. Today's game against Gareyev, or the tournament in general?
As for Dominguez, he has one statistic going for him. The last five championships have been won by five different players.
In addition to Carlsen, six Nordic chess players have reached the top 20.
Bent Larsen (Denmark), peaked at #3 in 1971. Ulf Andersson (Sweden), peaked at #4 in 1983. Johann Hjartarson (Iceland), peaked at #11 in 1989. Fridrik Olafsson (Iceland), peaked at #14 in 1969. Curt Hansen (Denmark), peaked at #14 in 1992. Simen Agdestein (Norway), peaked at #16 in 1989.
Brandon Campbell
Heute
Finland confirmed stupid :DDDD
Carson Butler
Yes, it's a big opportunity and would be a step in the right direction.
The five previous winners: 2014: Gata Kamsky 2015: Hikaru Nakamura 2016: Fabiano Caruana 2017: Wesley So 2018: Samuel Shankland
Mecking had some serious problems with illness. If not for these, we could have been talking about the Karpov - Mecking matches instead of the Karpov - Korchnoi matches, but I guess we'll never know. I'm well aware of Rafael Leitao, but currently, the only real chess nation in South America is Peru.
Isaiah James
For me it's Bobby Fischer
Landon Lewis
Maybe Caruana shot up motivated by the WCC but losing did the opposite and that's why he's plummeting down now. On another note, Artemiev is shooting up.
It was good while it lasted, but he was too afraid of Karpov. It's good to see that Russia is getting another crop of potential Candidates level players. Fedoseev and Dubov are also guys to watch out for, even though they've underperformed lately.
This is the top 10 for players born in this millennium. There are some interesting observations to be made, among them the fact that three of the players are participating in the US Championship, but who would expect Iran of all countries to have such a promising generation?
He played very well and convincingly in 2017 and 2018, to the point where he formed some kind of "big four" along with Carlsen, Caruana and Ding Liren, but he has played less well lately. Even then, he's still near the top of the list of players likely to qualify for the next Candidates.
To be completely honest, I always liked Radjabov better than Mamedyarov.
make a chess24 account and 1v1 him when he's banter blitzing again
alternatively try and get him on titled arena on Lichess
Thomas Ward
>2.5 / 5: Caruana, Let me guess. All draws?
Christian Williams
not a sport.
Angel Reed
I rate Maurice's excitable >Let's pretend treat chess like a football game as a foil to Yasser's soothing calm chess guru vibe HOWEVER... He needs to stop pulling us away from the championship into the women's blunderfest.
Jose Kelly
>There is a black man getting excited and talking loudly while drawing arrows on a tv screen It is EXACTLY like the NFL
