World Chess Open

128 player tournament with each player getting one turn with white and one turn with black. If tie, it goes to rapid. If that ties, armegeddon.  I think the 1st round knockout that surprised me the most was Judit Polgar. Her sister, Susan, one of the commentators was sad to see her go.  Then 2nd round with 64 remaining players going at it. Not sure, but that might be where Levon Aronian got the boot.  3rd round with 32 remaining players. I really like  Grischuk and thought he'd win after winning a game that took almost 150 moves. But he didn't. Then, with 16 players left, I thought the tournament was Hikaru Nakamura's to lose. He seemed to be rolling going into the match. But Hikaru drew with white and Anton from Ukraine beat him when he had black. Hikaru played a piece down for awhile but eventually reality set in.

So final 8 , who do you like to win it all?

As of now, I'm going with Anton from the Ukraine. I think he upsets Kramnik.