Dortmund Starts Next Thursday
The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is one of the traditional super-events on the yearly calendar, and the one where ex-world champion Vladimir Kramnik has had some of his greatest tournament successes. He has won this tournament eight times since 1995, and he's in it this year as well. Here are the participants, together with their Live Top List ratings:
Magnus Carlsen 2772.4
Dmitry Jakovenko 2759.5
Vladimir Kramnik 2759
Peter Leko (the defending champion) 2755.9
Etienne Bacrot (qualified by winning Aeroflot) 2721
Arkadij Naiditsch 2700 (according to FIDE, but not the LTL - he will apparently drop below that when the new ratings come out on Wednesday)
It's a double-round robin running through the 12th of July, with a single rest day at the halfway point (July 7). Here are the round 1 pairings (thanks to Chessdom):
Leko - Kramnik
Carlsen - Jakovenko
Naiditsch - Bacrot
Predictions?
Magnus Carlsen 2772.4
Dmitry Jakovenko 2759.5
Vladimir Kramnik 2759
Peter Leko (the defending champion) 2755.9
Etienne Bacrot (qualified by winning Aeroflot) 2721
Arkadij Naiditsch 2700 (according to FIDE, but not the LTL - he will apparently drop below that when the new ratings come out on Wednesday)
It's a double-round robin running through the 12th of July, with a single rest day at the halfway point (July 7). Here are the round 1 pairings (thanks to Chessdom):
Leko - Kramnik
Carlsen - Jakovenko
Naiditsch - Bacrot
Predictions?
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on
Saturday June 27, 2009 at 12:57am
And I really don't see it. Kramnik +2, Leko and Carlsen +1, Jakovenko =, rest negative somehow.
Whoever wins, let's hope for some interesting chess. This lineup doesn't make me optimistic.