Carlsen? i mean despite having a bad year,.didn't he win more tournaments than Giri did this year?
Who do you think will win the Chess Oscar this year?
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He wins every year. Time for a change.Don't 'ya think?
Dec 30, 2015
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Nakamura. Best year of his life and was pretty consistent for most of the year.
I think carlsen
I think the Russians stopped awarding the Chess Oscar, maybe they got bored with Carlsen winning it every year. Carlsen won it 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, but 2014 it all seems to have stopped. And 2014 was approximately as pointless to vote about as 2015, then Carlsen won title match plus World Championships in both blitz and rapid and was clear #1 in all formats while winning some classical tournaments as well. But the Chess Oscar was a nice tradition, a pity if it has been discontinued.
Karpov had won the oscar in 1976,1977, 1978, 1979, 1980. Then in 1981 they awarded it to Korchnoi, for "his fantastic come-back in the WC match".
Karpov was a bit upset. After all, he had won the WC match...
Carlsen has had a very strong year, winning 5 tournament (WaZ, Gashimov, Grenke (on tie-break), London (on tie-break), Qatar (on tie-break)), and rapid WC. Nobody has made as good a performance.
Dec 31, 2015
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Not quite. Korchnoi won it in 1978. The 1981 match was disgustingly one sided.
Dec 31, 2015
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The amazing thing is that Kasparov has the all time lead in Chess Oscar wins with 11. The reason it's so amazing is that there was no award from 1989-1994 when Kasparov was still in dominant form and likely would have won most or all of them.
GM Sutovsky made a list of his top ten for a hypothetical Chess Oscar for 2015. Carlsen #1 of course but more surprising was maybe that he had Karjakin as #2 and no Nakamura in the top ten.
Dec 31, 2015
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Yes, I debated his list with him and took him up on his challenge to provide my own!
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ChrisWainscott wrote:
Not quite. Korchnoi won it in 1978. The 1981 match was disgustingly one sided.
Of course you're right, sorry for the mistake.
One Chess Oscar vote is in, at least. German chess journalist Stefan Loeffler has gone public with his vote. He ranks Wei Yi as the best player in the world year 2015. A bit surprising, I have to say, but many agree with him in the Chessbase poll. I just think it's difficult to argue that he has been better than Carlsen. Wei Yi didn't play that many top events, the only one where both he and Carlsen participated was Qatar, where Carlsen won and Wei Yi finished 69th. Then he also played Gibraltar that was won by Nakamura and the World Cup where he was eliminated by Svidler. Especially the latter was a good result, but it takes some creative thinking to rank him as better than Carlsen in 2015 when the latter after all won bunches of top events and is 140 Elo ahead of Wei Yi...
Jan 3, 2016
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The question of course is whose results were more impressive?
Is it more impressive that Magnus won six out of nine tournaments (although he lost Elo doing it) or that Wei Yi became the youngest 2700 of all time and that he was creeping into elite territory (although he's way down on the Jan list due to poor performance in Qatar.)
It's not just who had the best results, it's about who's results were better in accordance with expectations.
Is it more impressive that Magnus won six out of nine tournaments (although he lost Elo doing it) or that Wei Yi became the youngest 2700 of all time and that he was creeping into elite territory (although he's way down on the Jan list due to poor performance in Qatar.)
It's not just who had the best results, it's about who's results were better in accordance with expectations.
"It's not just who had the best results, it's about who's results were better in accordance with expectations"
The Chess Oscar is awarded to "the best chess player of the year". If expectations had been involved I don't think Kasparov, Karpov and Carlsen would have won it as often as they have, they were/are expected to win every time :-)
I think it may be Giri,but there are several contenders. What do you think?