Why did giri's match end in a draw?  It seems like the game still has a ways to go before being over

Sorry, I was laso confused by the list of tata steel where those rating points were mentioned in the thread. In current live rating Naka is ahead of Kamski but the margin is not making Naka undoubtedly number1 american. As far as I know Naka has never won a classical match against Kamski. And the last time they both played USChampionship, Gata Kamski won the tournament.

Here is the updated one: http://www.2700chess.com/ and Naka is the top American player, 30 points at that level is a lot

That is not updated, it was on 17 August

Look at http://chess.liverating.org/  for the latest live ranking which will be reflected in FIDE official list soon. Gata Kamaski has achieved many things in chess, you just didnt follow him. Carlsen is undoubtedly number1 in Norway because of his achievment and rating. But the same cannot be told for Naka. At times, he has little higher points than Kamski but that does not make him number 1 American chess player. Kamski played USChess championship just before he played in Kazan when Naka did not play while dreaming about playing such event.

"In what basis is Naka America's number 1? Gata Kamski is the current USChampion, has higher rating than Naka and already competed for the World title(Played candidate tournament). Lots of people totally miss that."

Kamsky doesn't have a higher rating, the difference is 30 points in Naka's favour. Carlsen isn't the Norwegian Champion but I'd rank him as the Norwegian #1 anyway, just as I'd rank Nakamura as America's #1. Not only for being higher rated but also for his good results in top events, like first in Wijk and second in London last year. Kamsky never won a tournament close to the level of Wijk 2011 in his long career, and his being given a spot in Kazan for winning the World Cup knockout five years ago doesn't necessarily make him a better player than Nakamura today.

Giri is a good prospect as future World Champion as shown in his young age. This is yet to be confirmed if he beats Carlsen again in this coming Tata Steel Tournament. Just an opinion. Where is Wesley now anyway? Wake up boy... Caruana, Le and yes Giri are already there.

Didn't realize it was Kamsky. I must have misread it somewhere. Thanks for the correction. I still prefer Shulman :)

It was tough watching Nakamura crumble at this tournament.

@gxtmfa   he's America's number 1

In what basis is Naka America's number 1? Gata Kamski is the current USChampion, has higher rating than Naka and already competed for the World title(Played candidate tournament). Lots of people totally miss that.

Great win by Anish over Naka, i hope Naka will learn a lesson in humility from this loss.

Now that its over, I think somebody will look back at Kasparovs' chess.

Thanks Mr. sonopearl. I hope we can see a lot of fighting chess at tata, i enjoyed reggio emilia tournament it so exiting.

Gawd, the Naka game! Was he in a coma?

...ok, so I love it that the kid Giri won this tournament. The truth though is that Moro and Naka lost this tournamant...either one should have won it, but made very poor decisions in the games that really mattered...especially Naka.

Tata will be amazing...looking forward to see Gelfand's play so close to the WCC...and where has Topa been for so long?

notice that both naka and moro's games endded up with 67 moves and all in 4th rank..:|

@ Nao83  I had that statistic in an early draft of this post, but must have deleted it. Quite right, it was an amazing tournament! I'll put the 70% stat back in!

SonofPearl, I think you should give more credit to the amazing statistics of this tournament in the article: 70% of decisive games (only 9 draws!) and 11 wins obtained with black against 10 wins with white.

Holy Crap!  That looks like an amazing group at Tata!  

@ joemelpasco - yes, he is. Full list of the A group at Tata is below...