FIDE Grand Prix 2014-2015

[Mick Norris]

Results and pairings here:
http://tashkent2014.fide.com/en/compone ... view&kid=1

[MJMcCready]

Some interesting games for sure but you can't help but feel that the players need a longer break than what they had. I went to see them play in Baku, they looked pretty tired by the end of the tournament.

[Mick Norris]

Some interesting games for sure but you can't help but feel that the players need a longer break than what they had. I went to see them play in Baku, they looked pretty tired by the end of the tournament.

It isn't what you would ideally have for a qualifier for the Candidates, and does seem to penalise the 8 players who had to play Baku as well

http://www.theweekinchess.com/chessnews ... grand-prix

[MJMcCready]

Gelfand in particular looked very tired but then he was the patriarch.

[Barry Sandercock]

Caruana has an interesting game today with Queen for Rook and Bishop.

[Matt Mackenzie]

Caruana has an interesting game today with Queen for Rook and Bishop.

Didn't win it, though - just 1/3 so far......

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Nakamura now leading on 3.5/5 after MVL lost to Jakovenko:

http://en.chessbase.com/post/tashkent-0 ... naka-leads

[Barry Sandercock]

Great number of draws so far in this tournament. About 69% so far.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Jobava won in round 8 to tie for the lead. He and Andreikin play on Friday (tomorrow). Jobava has White.
Nakamura is the other player tied for the lead on +2 (5/8).

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Jobava won in round 8 to tie for the lead. He and Andreikin play on Friday (tomorrow). Jobava has White.
Nakamura is the other player tied for the lead on +2 (5/8).

Andreikin won (an interesting final position where he might have had to play out R+2N versus R) and takes the sole lead. Andreikin seems a very solid player, and when he gets more wins he starts to win tournaments.

[Barry Sandercock]

All six drawn today.

[Mick Norris]

Caruana and Karjakin won today to finish on 6 with MVL and Jobava

Nakamura & Mamedyarov joint second with 6.5

Andreikin wins with 7 impressive performance

[Mick Norris]

GP standings:

Caruana 230
Nakamura 207
Andreikin 190
Gelfand 170
Mamedyarov 160
Karjakin 157

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_Grand ... E2%80%9315

[Mick Norris]

The third leg of the GP has been moved from Tehran to Tbilisi

http://www.fide.com/component/content/a ... ement.html

Jobava replaces Ghaem Maghami, including in Tashkent next week giving neither him nor his opponents much chance to prepare

And now from Tbilisi to Batumi
according to
http://www.grand-prix.fide.com/
which has

FIDE Grand Prix Cycle

Baku, Azerbaijan - 10/2014
Tashkent, Uzbekistan - 11/2014
Batumi, Georgia - 2/2015
Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia - 5/2015

[Mick Norris]

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