Madrid Candidates 16th June to Tue 5th Jul 2022

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Re: Madrid Candidates 16th June to Tue 5th Jul 2022

Post by LawrenceCooper » Wed Jun 22, 2022 4:58 pm

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Firouzja draws with Duda. Nepo really struggling and Caruana less than comfortable.
Nepo seems to have escaped to virtual equality whilst there may be a repetition in the Caruana game unless he tries for more.

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Post by JustinHorton » Wed Jun 22, 2022 5:06 pm

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Firouzja draws with Duda. Nepo really struggling and Caruana less than comfortable.
...though he has now drawn with Rapport.

Only Ding currently looking a likely winner. (EDIT: indeed the only possible winner save Radjabov, since Naka and Nepo have also drawn.)
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Post by Mick Norris » Wed Jun 22, 2022 6:12 pm

The chess24 online computer, FWIW which may not be much, has Ding +2 with 40 ... Bxd4 and level after instead playing g6
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Re: Madrid Candidates 16th June to Tue 5th Jul 2022

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Wed Jun 22, 2022 6:49 pm

That does look like something fairly basic for a player of his strength to miss.
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Post by LawrenceCooper » Wed Jun 22, 2022 8:04 pm

Matt Mackenzie wrote:
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That does look like something fairly basic for a player of his strength to miss.
On the video feed he played g6 in a bit of a panic when down to about 10 seconds, albeit he had spent some time on the move.

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Post by Jonathan Bryant » Thu Jun 23, 2022 11:38 am

Mick Norris wrote:
Wed Jun 22, 2022 6:12 pm
The chess24 online computer, FWIW which may not be much, has Ding +2 with 40 ... Bxd4 and level after instead playing g6
I've been greatly enjoying Giri's recaps. Very dry sense of humour. Elite GM insight.
I could probably do without the cartoon-ish captions that pop up every now and then, but that seems a curmudgeonly gripe given that it's free and typically appears the following morning just a few hours after the games finish


He has a few interesting things to say about Ding's 40th move (and also what happened to Firouzja in round 4 for that matter)


Round 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf6ZW17QScw

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Post by Mick Norris » Thu Jun 23, 2022 11:39 am

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Re: Madrid Candidates 16th June to Tue 5th Jul 2022

Post by Jonathan Bryant » Thu Jun 23, 2022 5:13 pm

I don't want to be the cause of four games immediately burning out to draws ... but it's looking like a pretty tasty day so far.

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Post by JustinHorton » Thu Jun 23, 2022 5:21 pm

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Post by JustinHorton » Thu Jun 23, 2022 5:31 pm

At any rate, he draws with Ding: meanwhile Radjabov has missed a win, not really hard to see, against Rapport, who having failed to win with two rooks on the seventh against Firouzja, now draws while two rooks on the seventh himself.
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Post by JustinHorton » Thu Jun 23, 2022 5:42 pm

Nepo beats Duda and temporarily leads by a point and a half, though Caruana is likely to cut that to half a point shortly.
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Re: Madrid Candidates 16th June to Tue 5th Jul 2022

Post by Jonathan Rogers » Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:10 pm

No problem in having two early frontrunners, though it seems a bit much that they won five of the six decisive games so far! Of the others only Naka has won as much as one game, and that earns him sole third on 50% ...

Mind you, most players could have won one or even two games with just a bit more composure at certain moments. So hopefully a third runner will emerge in the second half.

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Post by LawrenceCooper » Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:25 pm

Jonathan Rogers wrote:
Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:10 pm
No problem in having two early frontrunners, though it seems a bit much that they won five of the six decisive games so far! Of the others only Naka has won as much as one game, and that earns him sole third on 50% ...

Mind you, most players could have won one or even two games with just a bit more composure at certain moments. So hopefully a third runner will emerge in the second half.
Rapport also has 50% (=6).

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Re: Madrid Candidates 16th June to Tue 5th Jul 2022

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:47 pm

Ding has missed two fairly clear winning chances as well as having that shocker against Nepo to start with. Following his under-performance last time round he is starting to look like another Aronian as far as the ultimate chess prize is concerned.
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Re: Madrid Candidates 16th June to Tue 5th Jul 2022

Post by Jonathan Rogers » Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:55 pm

LawrenceCooper wrote:
Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:25 pm
Jonathan Rogers wrote:
Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:10 pm
No problem in having two early frontrunners, though it seems a bit much that they won five of the six decisive games so far! Of the others only Naka has won as much as one game, and that earns him sole third on 50% ...

Mind you, most players could have won one or even two games with just a bit more composure at certain moments. So hopefully a third runner will emerge in the second half.
Rapport also has 50% (=6).
Ah yes, and he should perhaps have had the most decisive games so far!

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