Dortmund, Round 1 Pairings
The Dortmund super-tournament starts in the morning (3 p.m. local time in Germany = 9 a.m. ET), and here are the pairings:
Gustafsson - Kramnik
Naiditsch - Nepomniachtchi
Mamedyarov - Leko
Ivanchuk - van Wely
I'm going to go out on a limb (not!) and predict that Kramnik will win the tournament, with Ivanchuk challenging (but maybe running out of gas); Nepomniachtchi is my dark horse. I think Mamedyarov will do well but not threaten for first; likewise Leko (but maybe slightly worse than Mamedyarov), and Gustafsson, Naiditsch and van Wely will likely feature as chum. Readers? Predict away - but do so before the first round gets going!
Gustafsson - Kramnik
Naiditsch - Nepomniachtchi
Mamedyarov - Leko
Ivanchuk - van Wely
I'm going to go out on a limb (not!) and predict that Kramnik will win the tournament, with Ivanchuk challenging (but maybe running out of gas); Nepomniachtchi is my dark horse. I think Mamedyarov will do well but not threaten for first; likewise Leko (but maybe slightly worse than Mamedyarov), and Gustafsson, Naiditsch and van Wely will likely feature as chum. Readers? Predict away - but do so before the first round gets going!
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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on
Saturday June 28, 2008 at 12:24am