"Magnus seems to prefer spending his free time on his modelling career"
How much is it, two photo shoots in five years?
Sinquefield Cup 2014
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Aug 30, 2014
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#183
There are still 7 games left to go. Anything can happen. What an exciting tourney! Nobody predicted this type of start. I'm happy that there are more wins/loses than draws. I hope that stats holds up throughout the tourney. So do you think the Sinquefield Cup will be able to continue this level of GM participation and play year after year?
Carlsen has 1 photoshoot and he's now a professional who has no time for his chess career.
A few bad results and the drama queens are writing him off.
TRANKD wrote:
Caruana learnt chess at 5, not 10. 10 is already considered very old these days.
According to Wikipedia, Aronian learnt chess at the age of 9, so that's not that far-fetched.
Scottrf wrote:
Carlsen has 1 photoshoot and he's now a professional who has no time for his chess career.
A few bad results and the drama queens are writing him off.
People were spoiled by Kramnik and Anand winning every tournament they played in while World Champions, so with Carlsen having won only four of his five this far he does seem quite past it in comparison :-)
Aug 30, 2014
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#187
Carlsen hasn't really played that well recently ..there is no getting away from that fact..maybe it is just a blip; we shall see.
MVL played three very exciting games, and white against Nakamura probably means another one coming up. Naka will be irritated about losing from a winning position against Topalov. Black against a top ten player is very difficult, but I'm going for a surprise 0-1 here.
After three wins Caruana will be happy to just hold on to the lead even if he's white against Aronian. I'm guessing a fairly solid and dull draw.
Carlsen is white against a Topalov that has been playing much more horribly than his 1/3 score here. Either he plays as badly today and is blown off the board, or Carlsen is overly eager to catch up with Caruana and goes for something too aggressive. Not at all impossible with 0-1 in that case, but I'm going for 1-0.
All games look quite dry compared to yesterday, and it already looks as if it will take something special to avoid an all draws round.
Suddenly 4/4 doesn't look that impossible for Caruana, while the other games still seem quite drawn.
Go go go Fabiano. :)
Has Aronian changed his clothes since this thing started?
Move 41 and Caruana still has all 8 pawns.
Yes, Caruana is dominating. Now even I'm sure I'd manage to win this. With 1:30 time control, not that rapid. 
Aug 30, 2014
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#195
Carlsen is much worse ...unbelievable...Carlsen could be dead last on his own.
If Topalov pulls this off, Carlsen will be in clear last place.
The lines the Chessbomb engines gave as -2 all ended up with single knight for black.
Caruana starting 4/4 in a Category 23 tournament is quite incredible, now I could bet anything that he won't make it 5/5 by scoring his first win against Nakamura in the next round, that would just be too much.
Carlsen now leads Caruana in their head to head games by 5 wins to 4. I don't expect Magnus to remain ahead of Fabiano in their head to heads for very much longer.
Fabiano is a year younger at 22 and I expect that it won't be long before Fabiano has more wins than Magnus. After all , Fabiano is a hard worker whereas Magnus seems to prefer spending his free time on his modelling career .