Kramnik
Who do you hope will challenge carlsen next year?
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Borislav.
Kramnik. Although if Kramnik plays, the match may get very boring when Carlsen plays the white opening, Ruy Lopez... Kramnik's Berlin Wall even held off Kasparov...
Lol yeah I don't fancy 12 berlin defences
Karjakin.
Nov 27, 2013
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#9
Aronian. He is the thrid best player in history. I'm surprised he's never been the challenger.
Aronian.
"Deep Junior"
Aronian, he is #2 and i think maybe better than Kramnik
(actually i think it will be Houdini)
although Vesilan toplav has a good chance.
Nov 27, 2013
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#14
crazyim5 wrote:
From the list, Aronian or Kramnik would be nice. But I would very much like to see Anand retire from World Championship chess and focus on his tournament play and stay on top for at least 5 more years. It will also be very interesting to see Caruana win the candidates as a wildcard and challenge Magnus!
Peter Svidler is the wild card.
List of candidates:
Loser of World Chess Championship 2013-
Viswanathan Anand
The top two finishers in the Chess World Cup 2013-
Vladimir Kramnik
Dmitry Andreikin
The top two finishers in the Grand Prix 2012-13 -
Veselin Topalov
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
The next two highest rated players who played in the Chess World Cup 2013 or the Grand Prix 2012-13-
Levon Aronian
Sergey Karjakin
Organizing commitee's wild card (FIDE rating in July 2013 at least 2725)-
Peter Svidler
So which one do you root for next year?