I guess the ice bucket challenge did really good for caruana lol
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He was challenged? Oh, were any of 2700+ players nominated already?
I like both Caruana and Carlsen. i hope this tournament is a symptom that Caruana's play has turned a corner, but I think its a bit soon to tell. It has to help his confidence. And it's definitely awesome to see someone have such a great streak.
Earlier Carlsen was asked if he thought Caruana was going to be his closest competition in the upcoming years. And I thought it sort of a damned if you do damned if you don't question. You either sort count out many of the other young players in this competition - and yes I do consider arnian young. Or you seem to snub cauana who had just won 2 in a row.
Carlsen paused a bit and then nodded and indicated he thought so.
Aug 31, 2014
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It occurs to me Caruana is Provolone cheese. That is, he's half Swiss, half Mozzerela.
Aug 31, 2014
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#226
tigerprowl5 wrote:
Kasparov won the championship and kept it for many years. Carlsen hasn't had it for even one full year yet. I think people are not ready to accept the chances Carlsen's reign might be much shorter than Kasparov's.
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But then again, Kasparov only neede to defend his title every 2-3 years. Carlsen is not so lucky.
Kasparov had WC matches against Karpov in 1984-85 (48 games!), 1985, 1986, and 1987.
Coming up short in a comparison with Kasparov isn't exactly a disaster though, especially not at 23.
Caruana's previous results this year gave no indication that a result like this was on the way, even if none of them have been bad:
Tata: 4-6th together with So and Dominguez, behind Aronian, Karjakin and Giri
Zurich Classical: 3rd behind Carlsen and Aronian
Dortmund: 1st ahead of Meier and Leko
Norway: 4-5th with Topalov, behind Karjakin, Carlsen and Grischuk
Shamkir: 2nd behind Carlsen
Olympiad: 9th best first board TPR with 2776
Aug 31, 2014
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Caruana might be reminiscent of Botvinnik, retro look and all. Plus seems hardworking and humble. I'm rooting for him and Aronian to improve, and take the fight to Carlsen. Aronian not long ago was also quite steady, beating most of the top GMs on a regular basis.
Caruana is the best player in history, he won 4 games in a row with these guys 2770-2870 in the Information age , he does not need marketing campaigns like Kasparov, Karpov or Carlson . Caruana was a little boy 5 years ago , i knew him when he was in my city livin, very tactical player, he would solve prety quickly the tactical trainer in chess.com .
Carlson is a joke , his ego is too big and his style of play is boring like Raphael Nadal in Tennis, just waiting the error´s adversary in draw endings.
fabelhaft wrote:
Caruana's previous results this year gave no indication that a result like this was on the way, even if none of them have been bad:
Tata: 4-6th together with So and Dominguez, behind Aronian, Karjakin and Giri
Zurich Classical: 3rd behind Carlsen and Aronian
Dortmund: 1st ahead of Meier and Leko
Norway: 4-5th with Topalov, behind Karjakin, Carlsen and Grischuk
Shamkir: 2nd behind Carlsen
Olympiad: 9th best first board TPR with 2776
He's been in the running for 1st place in tournaments. Last year he was the most consistent in the Grand Prix series I think but because of the rules letting people take away their worst result he ended up not taking part in the Candidates.
Aug 31, 2014
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JohnnyKGB wrote:
Caruana is the best player in history, he won 4 games in a row with these guys 2770-2870 in the Information age ,
I would consider Wang Haos performance at Biel 2012 more impressive.
Wang Hao's Biel 2012 was great, but he did score +3 while Carlsen scored +4 and beat him in both games. Ivanchuk's Sofia 2008 was another impressive score: +6 -0 =4 in a strong field after five straight wins in the first rounds.
Ivanchuk's first five rounds in Sofia 2008: wins against Radjabov, Topalov, Bu Xiangzhi, Cheparinov and Aronian.
Aug 31, 2014
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#236
I hope Caruana achieves a personal best live rating that is higher than Kasparov's record of 2857. Kasparov did say a few dismissive remarks about Caruana not long ago.
It is inevitable that if you're always hanging around the 2800 mark, that you'll be pushing that bar with just a single hot streak. Currently, Caruana is hanging around the 2800 mark, but he also needs to sustain it. And only time will tell.
Aronian did it with 2835, which is also quite impressive in itself, because he could sustain the 2800 mark for a long time.
Rather than Nakamura, Caruana will be the one who finally stops Sauron:
Aug 31, 2014
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#238
varelse1 ha scritto:
It occurs to me Caruana is Provolone cheese. That is, he's half Swiss, half Mozzerela.
would you kindly explain this to me: what does provolone have to do with mozzarella and swiss... what? emmental?
Fab-iano is simply red hot now. But next round against Naka will tricky. Naka has a plus score against him.
Carlsen has a plus score against him, but Carlsen got PWNED by Fabiano. I don't like Fabiano though. I'm sure he's an alright guy, etc. but he's obviously cheating, which isn't good for chess.
Troll much?