Candidates Tournament 2020

[JustinHorton]

And Grischuk has gone for a long think, over half an hour on move 18 so far

It's who he is, it's what he does.

[JustinHorton]

Humour me and explain why not just 21 Bf4 repeating

[Jonathan Rogers]

feels like it might be four draws today but we cannot really complain

[Mick Norris]

And Grischuk has gone for a long think, over half an hour on move 18 so far

It's who he is, it's what he does.

Indeed, 53 minutes in total, and then another 21 minutes on the next move Now at move 26 with only 2 min 25 sec left

[JustinHorton]

And he's coming under a bit of pressure, needs maybe to be accurate now

[JustinHorton]

Round-up:

Caruana was better against Nepo, but since then the latter seems to have played more accurately than the former ;

Similarly Giri has defended well against any edge Ding may or may not have had ;

Grischuk's amazingly eccentric time management should probably have cost him the game against MVL, but the White player missed his chance and once against, any advantage appears to have disappeared ;

Wang seems not to have had anything much against Alekseenko.

[Mick Norris]

Caruana still playing, but the other 3 are draws; maybe Grischuk will get 14 draws from time trouble

[JustinHorton]

What's going on here?

[Mick Norris]

Nepo thinking on the way to a draw; his hair gets on the board sometimes

[Mick Norris]

Chess Mind round 4 report and analysis plus Ken Regan

TWIC with Nepo photo

Pete Doggers with other Nepo photos

[Matthew Turner]

I think we’ll have some Black wins today. Here are my ambitious predictions

Giri - Caruana 0-1
Grischuk - Ding 0-1
Alekseenko - MVL 1-0
Nepomniachtchi - Wang 0-1

[JustinHorton]

Giri - Caruana 1/2
Grischuk - Ding 1/2
Alekseenko - MVL 1/2
Nepomniachtchi - Wang 1-0

[JustinHorton]

Grischuk appears not to have arrived for the start (EDIT: as I write, the camera shows him turning up late).

[JustinHorton]

Early openings report - today, we have

- a Najdorf

- a Slow Slav

- an Anti-Marshall

- a Petroff.

[Mick Norris]

Interesting predictions; anyone want to change now you've seen the openings?