GM Magnus Carlsen on a roll!

GM Magnus Carlsen of Norway, a fan favorite of chess players around the world has become the latest to break the elo rating of 2800!  He joins an elite group such as Fischer, Kasparov, Anand, Topalov and a few more I believe.  Just can't think off the top of my head this morning.

GM Carlsen won the Nanjing Pearl Springs 2009 tournament playing a double round robin vs GMs  Veselin Topalov, Peter Leko (who replaced Viswanathan Anand), Dmitry Jakovenko, Teimour Radjabov and Wang Yue. As you can see below in the crosstable, GM Carlsen was superb with 8/10 pts and a 3002 Performance Rating! Not to mention it was a category XXI tournament.  It looks like to me, that we have seen the next World Champion in action, but of course he has to wait for the Topalov-Anand World Championship Match, he can only get
better in time.                                                                                             photo courtesy of chessdom.com



2nd Pearl Spring Nanjing (CHN), 2009 cat. XXI (2764)


1. Carlsen, Magnus     g NOR 2772 * * 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 8 3002

2. Topalov, Veselin     g BUL 2813 0 ½ * * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 5½ 2789

3. Wang Yue              g CHN 2736 ½ 0 ½ ½ * * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 4½ 2733

4. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2757 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * * ½ ½ ½ 0 4 2693

5. Leko, Peter             g HUN 2762 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * * ½ ½ 4 2692

6. Jakovenko, Dmitry  g RUS 2742 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ * * 4 2696

 

Bummer

Well, the bummer is, I guess I will have to wait til November to renew poor TransWarp... I guess the price of fuel has affected everything, from Electrical Bills, Natural Gas bills, especially food bills, as trucks haul the produce and merchandise from supermarket from the warehouses.

I was almost going to say "the neighborhood store", but those have seen to have gone by the wayside. I remember a little Mom and Pop store we would go to on the Rosebud Reservation in Mission, SD. Now that little store houses the chamber of commerce for Mission...seems kind of weird. It was called "The Mission Meat Market", we would get our bacon, fresh sliced, to steak to burger there. It was run by a nice couple in town..but sadly, the way of the tiny store has gone, it was about the size of one of these convenience stores/gas stations you see now. Without the gas of course, some canned goods, sundry items...oh I can smell the place still. The very old style fridge that held the soda right by the cash register, yep, one of those ones that looked like an old typewriter...no sweep and beep there! I really miss those days, as well as going out to a farm and getting fresh eggs, the lady would always save pullet eggs for me, eggs laid by year old hens..and smaller, so I had like a kid-sized egg ready to be cooked. They were good people, my Grandparents used to visit with them while I explored the farm. Of course sitting on the small tractor pretending to drive it, exploring the barn.... Time passes so quickly the older you get, doesn't it? I almost wish I could time travel back to those days, go in and get a cold soda and have them slice up some fresh bacon...no MSG or Nitrates...I just feel nostalgic today I guess, missing the old days of not having to worry about money (being a kid) buying a soda for a nickel..collecting pop bottles to cash in for money for a new baseball or something dearly wanted by a kid. Ah well, we can't.

But anyway, off that topic, I was rambling anyway....hopefully, I will be able to get TW back online about Nov. 3.. Keep your fingers crossed, that is if you are one of the TW fans on ICC, I'm sure there are a lot who could care less.