Sinquefield Cup 2014

Is Caruana going to play in Bilbao Masters after this? I can't see his name on their site at all, but he and his coach have mentioned Bilbao is next....? According to their player line up, its just Vallejo Pons, Anand, Aronian, and Ponomariov.

Caruana will play in Bilbao, not in the Masters event but in the European Club Cup, together with Nakamura, MVL, Topalov from Sinquefield Cup and also Grischuk and many other top players.

That pretty much happens anytime a player wins.  If the opponent makes not mistakes the game will likely be drawn.  

And its better that the wins are free rather than him paying for them.  

So it was indeed the highest TPR ever. Nice to know that I witnessed it.

If you don't include Fischers matches, then it may be the highest ever.

This is preposterous. His opening preparation was off the charts good- after six games his coach Chuchelov said three of those games were won by home preparation. This wasn't against 2200s who were mixing systems or forgetting move orders. Caruana was outpreparing the best players in the world and showing the technique to press the advantages home. In the other games he showed great tactics and strategy. Think of his piece sacrifice against Aronian- the announcers didn't totally love it at first but it posed too many problems for his 2800 opponent and he rolled over Aronian's position on the kingside.

When I win a game against a 1700 in a weekend Swiss with a questionable tactic, you can call that lucky. When Caruana wins SEVEN CONSECUTIVE GAMES (!!!!!!!) against top ten players, with incredible preparation, middlegame play, and technique, most of which is over the heads of most club players, you can't call it lucky. We had the pleasure of watching a potential superstar play incredible chess.

Magnus Carlsen agrees that Caruana played extremely well, and you are questioning Carlsen and other top GMs, as well as the rest of the chess world? That must make you some kind of a super-patzer.

There is no performance rating for Fischer's first two candidate's matches... he won every game.  It's inane to give it a number and then compare that number to anything.

Well you're only as good as your last tournament or something...sensational performance by Caruana. But as Carlsen said, let's see how things pan out in the fullness of time. It could be a happy blip on the radar...it could be the start of the greatest domination in chess history...or it could be someowhat of a blip on the radar with scattered success to follow...or any combination or variation of the above. Let's see what he does at the next big tournament.

losingmove, you forgot one more possibility:

A swan song.

Everything is downhill from now on for Caruana.

not enough data points

It's a moot point anyway, Fischer's result is a different achievement.

I don't see anybody saying Caruana > Carlsen.

And I disagree about the "overhype." It seems to be the best tournament result ever recorded, and Fabiano is receiving the deserved praise.

Calm down. 

Still, be calmer. 

I am VIP. I paid 0$ to get that diamond.

I don't want Caruana to do well because I hate Magnus; I want Caruana to do well so there is an interesting match in prospect at some point.  Equally I would like Anand to do better this time round, but I have my doubts like most people.  I still think Carlsen is the best in the world by some margin at the moment, but that's no fun to watch is it?  I would have used more capitals, but NotAllowedTo used them all up. ;-)

"Everything is downhill from now on for Caruana"

It has been going downhill for a long time already, three games in a row without a single win! :-)

This team match at the Sinquefield is great to watch.

In a way, yes. But after the third game out of 5 had been forfeited due to illegal moves one of the Sinquefields had made, I decided that I had enough...