Sunday, October 11, 2009

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

 

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