pfren, "He is by far my favorite" refers to Carlsen or Aronian?
Why do you say Aronian is nowhere close to Carlsen? They are just 12 ELO apart in the live ratings, and Aronian seems to be closing. Doesn't that indicate that they are pretty close in terms of how well they do against their peers?
pfren, "He is by far my favorite" refers to Carlsen or Aronian?
Why do you say Aronian is nowhere close to Carlsen? They are just 12 ELO apart in the live ratings, and Aronian seems to be closing. Doesn't that indicate that they are pretty close in terms of how well they do against their peers?
yes but once you reach that level 12 points is a lot
Carlsen is an engine himself. Nuff said
Note that world chess champion must be human. Carlsen isn't. Capablanca also wasn't human, but he behaved and talked like human. So people didn't notice.
Rofl. IMO, fischer is a engine too :P
No Fischer was just insane, Comfortably Numb, Dazed and Confused, Coplaining about the Russians as being Another Brick in the Wall, his mind was on The Dark Side of the Moon, what ever you want to call it, FIscher was a LOON
U should at least mention thats in his late years.
even in his early years, he was a bit nuts, albiet he could be a somewhat normal human, but after 1972 he went off the deep end.
Carlsen is not World Champion for the same reason I am not. He didn't compete for the world champion. Now Korchnoi, Bronstein, Keres, Reshevsky, Kamsky, those guys are different. You gotta be in it to win it.
"From what I understand, Carlson is very good in tournaments, but in one on one match play he has struggled."
Where do you understand this from? To my knowledge Carlsen has played no 1-1 matches of any significant length. There is just no basis for this.
Yes, I think the only "long" classical match Carlsen has played was the Candidates match against Aronian in 2007, but then he was only 16 and ranked last of the participants while Aronian was ranked first. After the rapid tiebreak it was 5-5 but then Aronian won the two blitz games. Some very exciting and well played games there:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=61997
In rapid Carlsen has won a match against Leko:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=64376
In general I don't think there's much of a difference between matches and tournaments though, the best players score good results regardless of the format, just like it was in the days of Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine.
No, he's American.
You guys are funny...up there with the world champ, Larry the Cable Guy.
I really like this chess crowd, much better to be around than poker players.
So it's settled? Magnus Carlsen WILL BE the world champion the next time around, i'd say at 23 years old - i'll take this young phenom versus the field.
yeah i only see anand or gelfand getting any better and carlsen is only going to climb so my two bets on who will be in the next wcc match will either be carlsen or aronian and they will be playing Anand
pfren - you say he's motivated, I watched a documentary on him where a couple of people called him lazy.
That sounded rubbish to me, I just don't believe he could get to where he is if he was lazy.
You don't think there's any truth in that?