Mtel Masters

[Ian Kingston]

Anyone think Chuky will make 5/5?

No need to speculate - Aronian succumbed today.

[Jonathan Bryant]

He's on 5 out of 5?

Wow that's incredible. Does anybody know the last time anybody one the first 5 rounds in a top level all-play-all tournament (or any other format come to that)?

[Paul Stimpson]

It would be interesting to see what kind of rating performance Chuckys on right now!

Topalov is doing quite well but unfortunately his met an on fire Ivanchuk.

[Ian Kingston]

It would be interesting to see what kind of rating performance Chuckys on right now!

Topalov is doing quite well but unfortunately his met an on fire Ivanchuk.

Any rating for a 100% (or 0%) is statistically meaningless, but according to the crosstable at ChessVibes, Ivanchuk's performance comes in at 3537. Topalov is performing at 2878, which would be excellent in any other context.

[Greg Breed]

Courtesy of the ChessVibes website :-
http://www.chessvibes.com/tournaments/l ... lllang_en/

M-Tel Masters 2008 Round 5 Standings

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   	   	   	   	1	2	3	4	5	6	   	 
1	Ivanchuk,V 	2740	797	* 	1	1	1	1	1	5.0/5 	 
2	Topalov,V 	2767	111	0	* 	½ 	1	1	1	3.5/5 	 
3	Radjabov,T 	2751	-86	0	½ 	* 	½ 	½ 	½ 	2.0/5 	4
4	Cheparinov,I 	2696	-20	0	0	½ 	* 	½ 	1	2.0/5 	2.75
5	Aronian,L 	2763	-177	0	0	½ 	½ 	* 	½ 	1.5/5 	 
6	Bu Xiangzhi 	2708	-205	0	0	½ 	0	½ 	* 	1.0/5 	 

Pairings round 6 (Wednesday):

Topalov, V - Aronian, L
Xiangzhi, Bu - Cheparinov, I
Ivanchuk, V- Radjabov, T

[Jonathan Bryant]

Chucky only drew today... honestly his standards are slipping.

[Tryfon Gavriel]

I youtubed Topalov's Round 8 victory this morning:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHW1_GVSOlU