Round 7:

Anish Giri 0-1 Sergey Karjakin
Fabiano Caruana 1/2-1/2 Veselin Topalov
Magnus Carlsen 1/2-1/2 Alexander Grischuk
Vladimir Kramnik 1/2-1/2 Levon Aronian
Peter Svidler 1/2-1/2 Simen Agdestein

All games start at 15:30 PM local time (UTC+2)

xM(Z

Romania5298 Posts

June 10 2014 13:19 GMT

#644

current standings (first six, all with good chances of winning) from https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/norwayChess2014#live eta 10min
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Ketch

Netherlands7285 Posts

June 10 2014 19:36 GMT

#645

I love the show at Chess24 with Gustafsson and Trent, much better than the NorwayChess stream, only they have player cams...

Nyxisto

Germany6287 Posts

June 10 2014 19:43 GMT

#646

yes, Nigel short is just a prick and the other guy has no idea what's going on. Trent and Gustaffson are amazing :D

Ketch

Netherlands7285 Posts

June 10 2014 19:51 GMT

#647

On June 11 2014 04:43 Nyxisto wrote:
yes, Nigel short is just a prick and the other guy has no idea what's going on. Trent and Gustaffson are amazing :D

I am actually getting this Tastosis vibe from them

urboss

Austria1223 Posts

June 10 2014 20:55 GMT

#648

Trent looks like he's gonna collapse any time

Nyxisto

Germany6287 Posts

June 10 2014 21:12 GMT

#649

The Giri game has just become totally insane over the last 20 moves

edit : lol wat

Plexa

Aotearoa39261 Posts

June 10 2014 21:15 GMT

#650

Holy shit.... I feel like we witnessed some serious history ;o

Ketch

Netherlands7285 Posts

June 10 2014 21:15 GMT

#651

Oooops Giri blows it after 7h:45min

wingpawn

Poland1342 Posts

June 10 2014 21:19 GMT

#652

ROFL, 131-move chess meatloaf with fortress standing on board for like 50 moves. Then, out of nothing, Giri cooks up the winning plan, sacs a pawn, infiltrates the Kingside only to miss the prophylactic 120. Qd7, denying Black's Qc6 possibility. Then it's a draw again and Anish keeps going on autopilot with no sense of danger whatsoever, until he blunders a mate in 11.

Funniest thing is that he had literally 100 opportunities to offer a draw that would probably be immediately accepted.

EDIT: Oh, I didn't knew Plexa follows chess. Any real-world rating or sth?

Standings after Round 7:

1. Kramnik (+2 -1 =4) - 4 points
Caruana (+2 -1 =4) - 4 points
Karjakin (+2 -1 =4) - 4 points
Carlsen (+1 -0 =6) - 4 points
2. Grischuk (+2 -2 =5) - 3.5 points
Agdestein (+0 -0 =7) - 3.5 points
3. Giri (+1 -2 =4) - 3 points
Topalov (+1 -2 =4) - 3 points
Aronian (+1 -2 =4) - 3 points
Svidler (+0 -1 =6) - 3 points

Closest tournament ever? This is pretty crazy...

vndestiny

Singapore3441 Posts

June 11 2014 02:09 GMT

#653

Gotta feel for Giri there. 2 massive blunders in 1 game, from completely domination to completely even to total lost. What a marathon of a game.

Ettick

United States2434 Posts

June 12 2014 03:34 GMT

#654

Seems like a close tournament

wingpawn

Poland1342 Posts

June 12 2014 05:14 GMT

#655

Round 8:

Simen Agdestein 0-1 Veselin Topalov
Levon Aronian 1/2-1/2 Fabiano Caruana
Alexander Grischuk 1/2-1/2 Anish Giri
Peter Svidler 1/2-1/2 Magnus Carlsen
Sergey Karjakin 1-0 Vladimir Kramnik

All games start at 15:30 PM local time (UTC+2)

urboss

Austria1223 Posts

June 12 2014 07:08 GMT

#656

Two more rounds to go and literally anyone can still win this.
The 2 Norwegians are the only ones that haven't lost yet.
Agdestein is a big surprise so far, he still has to play MC however.
MC is playing his bogey opponent Svidler today.
Mind that if two share the first place in the end, there will be blitz/armageddon match to decide the winner.

Poll: Who is going to win the Norway Chess Classic 2014?

Carlsen (5)

45%

Karjakin (3)

27%

Kramnik (1)

9%

Caruana (1)

9%

Grischuk (1)

9%

Agdestein (0)

0%

Topalov (0)

0%

Svidler (0)

0%

Giri (0)

0%

11 total votes

Your vote: Who is going to win the Norway Chess Classic 2014?

(Vote): Kramnik
(Vote): Carlsen
(Vote): Karjakin
(Vote): Caruana
(Vote): Agdestein
(Vote): Grischuk
(Vote): Topalov
(Vote): Svidler
(Vote): Giri

Maenander

Germany4926 Posts

June 12 2014 15:43 GMT

#657

Amazing performance by Agdestein. The level of his opponents is insanely high and yet he didn't lose a single game so far, while Hammer got hammered last year.

urboss

Austria1223 Posts

June 12 2014 16:35 GMT

#658

Looks like Carlsen is gonna take the tourney, I guess Agdestein will be a piece of cake for him tomorrow

Edit: seems like Magnus miscalculated sth with Rxf4

Edit2: this game just turned crazy

Nyxisto

Germany6287 Posts

June 12 2014 17:03 GMT

#659

wow he botched it, crazy.

kwizach

3658 Posts

June 12 2014 17:05 GMT

#660

Svidler-Carlsen game is now equal. Two insane blunders from Carlsen (well, especially 24....Rfxf4) when SF put the game at -2,77 in his favor (fourth choice for his 24th move was still -2,56). Probably one of his worst screw-ups in recent years?