Petrosian Memorial 3 - 11 Nov 2014

[Mick Norris]

Moscow, according to TWIC

Aronian, Kramnik, Grischuk, Gelfand, Leko, Liren Ding, Morozevich, Inarkiev. €100,000 prizes

Will be good to see Moro playing

[MJMcCready]

Hopefully an official website will appear at some point. It will be nice to have an alternative to the Carlsen Anand matchm which may take a few days to get going.

[Mick Norris]

Gelfand is playing the GP in Tashkent which finishes 3 Nov, so not quite sure how is managing to get to Moscow in time to start this event also on 3 November

[Mick Norris]

http://www.tashir-chess.com/

Round 1 underway
http://www.tashir-chess.com/livestream/

[Mick Norris]

Grischuk has won his first 3 games, making it 6 on the bounce now including Baku GP

Live rating currently 2807

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Grischuk has won his first 3 games, making it 6 on the bounce now including Baku GP

Live rating currently 2807

Good spot there, that he has won 6 in a row. All the more surprising given that he was on -2 at the Baku Grand Prix, having lost two and drawn six. Following that with six in a row is up there with other big winning streaks. I make it 25.9 rating points he has gained from those six victories.

I suppose Caruana's straight 7 wins made people dig out other examples. What are the longest winning streaks at the top level outside of Fischer's 11/11? If you limit it to just games against GMs, the longest appears to be Fischer's 20 consecutive wins:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wo ... ng_records

If you limit it to wins against different players (i.e. not match whitewashes, though maybe you would still include double-round robins) then it would be Fischer's seven wins to conclude the 1970 Interzonal (Palma de Mallorca):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Ches ... tournament

Were his opponents there all GMs?

[IM Jack Rudd]

Rubinetti isn't a GM even now; I don't know if he was one of Fischer's run of seven wins at the end.

[John Moore]

Fischer drew with Ujtumen from Mongolia in round 16 at Palma Interzonal 1970. Thereafter, he beat Rubinetti, Uhlmann, Taimanov, Suttles, Mecking, Gligoric and Panno though Panno had some kind of dispute with the organisers and didn't turn up - can't remember why. All of the aforementioned wins were against GMs apart from Jorge Rubinetti as Jack of course mentioned.

I claim my prize for beating RdeC to this.

[Roger de Coverly]

All of the aforementioned wins were against GMs apart from Jorge Rubinetti as Jack of course mentioned. .

Suttles wasn't a GM at the time, although clearly of that strength. The story about Panno is that he objected to the postponement of his game because of Fischer's religious demands. Rather than lose at the one hour mark, the story is that he resigned in person without playing a move. That presumably cost him a rating point or two on the then brand new concept of Elo International rating lists.

[Mick Norris]

Grischuk has won his first 3 games, making it 6 on the bounce now including Baku GP

Live rating currently 2807

Good spot there, that he has won 6 in a row. All the more surprising given that he was on -2 at the Baku Grand Prix, having lost two and drawn six. Following that with six in a row is up there with other big winning streaks. I make it 25.9 rating points he has gained from those six victories.

Grischuk finishes with a quick draw with Kramnik to win the event - second place takes Kramnik back into the top 10 on the live rating list

Grischuk now at 2809.7, no sign of him playing any other longplay rated games this month, so he will be 2810 in the December rating list, making him the 8th player through the 2800 barrier