The danger of cut & paste, on page 9: "4. 8. 2 FIDE shall open a bidding procedure for the Candidates Tournament before 31 December 2013."Mick Norris wrote:I gather that Kramnik will defend his World Cup title in Baku September 10–October 4 and, surprisingly to me, Aronian intends to play too
2016 Candidates regulations
have 2 spots by rating being the average of the 12 monthly lists during 2015
Number 3 now in Tbilisi starts this weekendMick Norris wrote:GP standings:
Caruana 230
Nakamura 207
Andreikin 190
Gelfand 170
Mamedyarov 160
Karjakin 157
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_Grand ... E2%80%9315
Interesting summary of Candidates qualification here:JustinHadi wrote:Maybe Aronian needs practice in pressure events? Although he will probably (\edit might, forgot about Caruana and Grischuk breaking 2800) qualify by rating anyway so not sure how much pressure he will be under in the World Cup.
Tomashevsky has a decent lead in the GP, but he is probably under more pressure as he is unlikely to get 1 of the 2 rating spots (which Caruana and/or Nakumura may well get) - the reality though, as Chris hints, is that any of the 12 can win the tournamentChris Rice wrote:The fourth and final tournament of the Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk is due to start in a few days time with the first round on the 14th May (see schedule link below). Considering how important these tournaments are supposed to be, (the winner and second placed player overall of the GP Series will qualify for the 2016 Candidates Tournament) there has been precious little publicity building up to this final event. If you see Mick's post above it looks like its between Tomashevsky, Caruana and Nakamura for those two places so might be an exciting finish, should be good in any event with all these world class players. As with the other three events its a 12-player round robin.
Khanty-Mansiysk GP participants:
Fabiano Caruana (ITA) 2803
Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 2799
Alexander Grischuk (RUS) 2780
Anish Giri (NED) 2776
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA) 2754
Sergey Karjakin (RUS) 2753
Evgeny Tomashevsky (RUS) 2749
Boris Gelfand (ISR) 2744
Dmitry Jakovenko (RUS) 2738
Peter Svidler (RUS) 2734
Leinier Domínguez (CUB) 2734
Baadur Jobava (GEO) 2699
http://khantymansiysk2015.fide.com/schedule/
I'm not sure what did you expect more in term of publicity. After all the event has been promoted on the FIDE website and on all the main chess news websites. It takes no effort to find out who is running for the two qualification spots and all those details. Considering how little notice the general public takes on the world championship match, I do not think you can expect much mainstream interest for a tournament that qualifies to a tournament that qualifies to the world championship match.Chris Rice wrote:Considering how important these tournaments are supposed to be, (the winner and second placed player overall of the GP Series will qualify for the 2016 Candidates Tournament) there has been precious little publicity building up to this final event.
It started a few minutes after the scheduled 11am BST. Games will come to first time control around 2.30-3pm.Mick Norris wrote:Live games
Game analysis
Live video
TWIC has the games starting at 11 am UK time, not sure if that is right or Chris is right at 10 am - we will find out soon
Maybe you'll get all that for the Grand Chess Tour eventsChris Rice wrote:I was expecting more publicity including:
A fly by over the venue of vintage Soviet jets
A pre-tournament match between the Presidents of Russia and Ukraine to determine ownership of Donetsk
A Rock concert
A lavish opening ceremony
and perhaps some strippers.
Was that really too much to ask?
