Nakamura, with black, drew Kramnik.  Good start for Naka. 

A very simple and good play from the GMs in the Twitter event.  The "rest of the world" performed spectacularly badly, losing with white in 23 moves (and they were lost much earlier).  For black, Kramnik's style was quite apparent...

I dont think that Nakamura will be able to pull off a stunner this time.  He is playing Kramnik, Anand, Carlsen, and Aronian in the first four rounds. It would be REALLY hard to keep up good momentum against the top four players in the world back to back.  I will be rooting for Naka.

Anand will lean back and draws himself out to land in the middle, Carlsen will start slow and will win the whole thing at the end. Aronian will win some, lose some, ends up second. Kramnik will be third, but the big question is Naka. Will he try to correct the downward movement? Where is Moro and Nepo?

Erm Hernok not been following Chess for about 10 years then lol. AlthoughvI agree throwing Karpov and Kaspy in would be entertaining.

Tomorrow!

gokul999:  When you play 8 games, you need to play 4 with white and 4 with black; everyone does.  If you've played more whites early on in the tournament, you know what will happen in the later stages.  It can't be perfectly balanced for everyone; someone has to play more black at first and more white later, and someone has to do the opposite.

Why does Carlsen and Aronian play black in BOTH their last two rounds? That's a real bit of unfair pairing.

pretty sure both karpov and kasparov are retired...

Some good innovation and mix of ideas by the organizers of this tournament:

- players helping out with commentaries and getting one additional free day;

- players playing together prior to the competition against willing Twitter users;

- games being truly classic with the time control of 2 hours (not 90 minutes) for 40 moves;

- etc.

why kasparov or karpov not play...???

Go Luke!

Players assiting commentary on their off days!!! London Classic puts on an awesome tournament. It's just unfortunate that there's anti draw policies in place. 

It's proven that Magnus is the strongest now. On the last two tournaments, Bilbao and Tal, he's the first. My prediction, he'll be the first again here.  Just enjoy his creative game for winning, not for draw like Anand's games!

I'd say with Carlsen playing 3 of the English players in the first 3 rounds, he should be clear first after round 3. If not, his tournement winning streak should end.

It would be more exciting if it was playing one person a day in two games as both white and black. So there would be 16 games. game one 10am top 2pm and game 2 at 3:30pm to 7:30pm

I love the set up of giving a bye to each participant during the tournament in which they help give the live commentary on their bye day. What a win-win for everyone!

I'd rather have Topolov or Ivanchuck to Nakamura ;(

I loved this event last year and I'm looking forward to it again this year. 

I like it ,to see the games of the best players,my favorite is aronian or anand