Elista Candidates, Round 2, Game 1: The Players Cooperate
With my predictions, that is. My "sure" picks Aronian, Leko and Grischuk all won (it didn't hurt that they all had White), while the iffy match's game was drawn.
Game 1 Results:
Aronian - Shirov 1-0
Leko - Bareev 1-0
Grischuk - Rublevsky 1-0
Kamsky - Gelfand 1/2-1/2
On the other hand, only one of the wins (Grischuk's) was even slightly one-sided. Shirov devised a fine exchange sacrifice, but gradually drifted into a hopeless ending. Bareev was clearly better against Leko, but rapidly and radically self-destructed. And while Rublevsky was worse throughout against Grischuk, he still had decent chances to survive until near the end. As for Kamsky-Gelfand, the American got nothing from the opening and the game was quickly drawn.
Games here.
Game 1 Results:
Aronian - Shirov 1-0
Leko - Bareev 1-0
Grischuk - Rublevsky 1-0
Kamsky - Gelfand 1/2-1/2
On the other hand, only one of the wins (Grischuk's) was even slightly one-sided. Shirov devised a fine exchange sacrifice, but gradually drifted into a hopeless ending. Bareev was clearly better against Leko, but rapidly and radically self-destructed. And while Rublevsky was worse throughout against Grischuk, he still had decent chances to survive until near the end. As for Kamsky-Gelfand, the American got nothing from the opening and the game was quickly drawn.
Games here.
Related Posts (on one page):
- Elista Candidates, Round 2, Game 1: The Players Cooperate
- Elista Candidates, Pre-Round 2 Statistics
- Elista Candidates, Round 1, Tiebreaks
- Elista Candidates, Round 1, Game 6
- Elista Candidates, Round 1, Game 5
- Elista Candidates, Round 1, Game 4
- Elista Candidates, Round 1, Game 3: The Halfway Point
- Elista Candidates, Round 1, Game 2
- Elista Candidates, Round 1, Game 1
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on
Wednesday June 6, 2007 at 7:14pm