Sinquefield Cup 2014

Caruana back in 2003:

http://en.chessbase.com/post/fabulous-fabiano

Carlsen down to 2861 ..which is still better than anybody else has ever achieved but his numbers are definitely heading in the wrong direction.

Caruana has white today against Aronian. If he wins again that will be just insane!

I really hope he manages to do this! :)

Me too. I'd definitely like Caruana over Carlsen as a WC. Much more diplomatic. Although it's unlikely that someone will dethrone the cyborg in the next few years. He's just in a bad form right now.

Either Caruana is the new Tal, or Carlsen thinks after his win with that stupidly played Scandinavian that anything goes against him.

I think both: Carlsen thinks that he is so big a genious that anything goes.

And yes: Caruana is the new Tal.

"Either Caruana is the new Tal, or"

"yes: Caruana is the new Tal"

Tal didn't have people sacrificing pieces dubiously against him though, it was usually the other way around.

Caruana reminds me much more of Petrosian or Karpov than Tal.

I use Tal as a proxy for 'pure chess genious' ( in a similar way as if I was referring to Einstein in physics ).

Karpov was an extremely strong player but genious does not come to my mind in connection with him.

To me Caruana is more of a hard worker, otherwise I'd say Karpov too was a genius. Many similarities there, Karpov also reached #2 when he was 22 years old, but was not yet 24 when he became World Champion. Caruana has been training very hard since a very young age, already at ten his parents spent 50 000 dollar a year on coaching etc according to the above link, and he was training full time at least the last dozen years. Difficult to reach the top today otherwise, of course.

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This interview with Caruana contradicts the above linked article quite a lot though, here he says that he learnt to play first when he was ten years old, strange.

http://whychess.com/node/2908

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Caruana:

"I learned to play quite late, when I’d just finished primary school. At the time I was about 10 years old…

It happened completely by accident. My mobile phone turned out to have chess on it, and I was curious what kind of a game it was – so I learned the rules. At first it was just a distraction, but I got so gripped by it that only two years later, when I was 12, I started my professional chess career.

Е.А.: A professional career at age 12?! Surely you’re exaggerating?

F.C.: No, by age 12 I was already working constantly"

The Chessbase article about Caruana at ten talks about all the trophies he has won and how his career started when he was five years old:

"It doesn't come easy for the thin boy with a shy smile and glasses, who started his career when he was 5 and now spends about 36 hours a week working on his game. He is ranked first in the country for players under 12"

"Fabiano's father Lou Caruana, 56, revealed that it costs the Brooklyn family about $50,000 annually for coaching and lessons, and travel to international tournaments with Fabiano's coach. The family has tightened its budget as a consequence. Thankfully the family has found a sponsor, who insists upon anonymity, who provides a jet for travel and money for coaching"

This interview strikes me as very strange too. My guess is it might have been a chat, after which the journalist wrote what and how he remembered.

Caruana learnt chess at 5, not 10. 10 is already considered very old these days.

if he learnt at 10, i'd doubt he being in the top 50.

Naka miss a great chance against top. He a nice postion I think to sac the bishop and overlooked it.

He didn't overlook it, he just didn't see that it was clearly winning.

It looks like Carlsen crushed Nakamura! This proves Nakamura had no reason to believe that penguingm1 was Carlsen.