Candidate Matches in Elista

Originally posted by vipiu
I would go for:

Aronian (he will be also in my bets for WC winner)
Leko
Rublevsky
Gelfand

I was just looking at some of the results here: http://globalchess.eu/main.php?id=21

What does TB mean?

Oh wait I see now.

1st round

Aronian and Leko were lucky
Grishchuk was strong
Short was unlucky
Bareev was sucky
Kamsky was absent
Gelfand was precise

Originally posted by vipiu
1st round

Short was unlucky

Originally posted by BFM
Short? You mean Shirov, right ?

Originally posted by vipiu
1st round

Aronian and Leko were lucky
Grishchuk was strong
Short was unlucky
Bareev was sucky
Kamsky was absent
Gelfand was precise

Bump.

Aronian vs. Shirov is now 2-1 in Aronian's favor.
Leko vs. Bareev is now 2.5 - 1.5 in Leko's favor.
Grischuk vs. Rublevsky is now 2 - 1 in Grischuk's favor.
Kamsky vs. Gelfand is now 2 - 1 in Gelfand's favor.

Originally posted by Ramiri15
Bump.

Aronian vs. Shirov is now 2-1 in Aronian's favor.
Leko vs. Bareev is now 2.5 - 1.5 in Leko's favor.
Grischuk vs. Rublevsky is now 2 - 1 in Grischuk's favor.
Kamsky vs. Gelfand is now 2 - 1 in Gelfand's favor.

Originally posted by Korch
Leko vs. Bareev is now 2.5 - 0.5 in Leko's favor.

Kamsky played just about the worst game I have ever seen from a 2700+ player. It was appalling.

Match 1
Aronian Levon (ARM) 1 ½ ½ ½ --- 2.5
Shirov Alexei (ESP) 0 ½ ½ ½ --- 1.5
Match 2
Leko Peter (HUN) 1 ½ 1 ½ --- 3.0
Bareev Evgeny (RUS) 0 ½ 0 ½ --- 1.0
Match 3
Grischuk Alexander (RUS) 1 ½ ½ 0 --- 2.0
Rublevsky Sergei (RUS) 0 ½ ½ 1 --- 2.0
Match 4
Kamsky Gata (USA) ½ ½ 0 ½ --- 1.5
Gelfand Boris (ISR) ½ ½ 1 ½ --- 2.5

uau, Aronian - Shirov on move 30 with 1h40 minutes each...
so everything until now was preparation ?

Originally posted by vipiu
uau, Aronian - Shirov on move 30 with 1h40 minutes each...
so everything until now was preparation ?

I can't believe Bareev gave away the match by agreeing a short draw. What a wimp.