2016 Candidates Moscow 10-29 March

[Carl Hibbard]

So which is which?

Sicilian is Giri on live and Karjakin on Chess24.

[LawrenceCooper]

So which is which?

Karjakin-Caruana is the Sicilian, the queenless Catalan is Giri-Topalov.

[Carl Hibbard]

So which is which?

Karjakin-Caruana is the Sicilian, the queenless Catalan is Giri-Topalov.

So live is wrong, classy.

[JustinHorton]

So which is which?

Amazingly the offical site was wrong

[JustinHorton]

The evidence remains

[LawrenceCooper]

So which is which?

Karjakin-Caruana is the Sicilian, the queenless Catalan is Giri-Topalov.

Now corrected.

[Carl Hibbard]

So which is which?

Karjakin-Caruana is the Sicilian, the queenless Catalan is Giri-Topalov.

Now corrected.

Yes a full page refresh sorts it but rather embarrassing.

[MJMcCready]

Unbelievable. Sharp game ahead for Karjakin - Caruana

[JustinHorton]

I think Caruana's advantage on the clock ought to be worth Karjakin's advantage on the computer, at least.

[NickFaulks]

I seem to remember from my Najdorf days that this is where White goes e5 and it all turns ugly.

[JustinHorton]

Well the computer likes it. Van Kampen, in the commentary box, plays Siclians and he wasn't bothered, says Sicilian players like to run around with their kings.

[JustinHorton]

(Still, looking at the lines, it's hard not to believe that Karjakin blinked.)

[Chris Rice]

[Event "Goglidze Memorial"] [Site "Tbilisi"] [Date "1988.09.??"] [Round "6"] [White "Prandstetter, Eduard"] [Black "Kozul, Zdenko"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B67"] [WhiteElo "2415"] [BlackElo "2505"] [PlyCount "78"] [EventDate "1988.09.??"] [EventType "tourn"] [EventRounds "11"] [EventCountry "URS"] [EventCategory "11"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "1994.03.01"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Qd2 a6 8. O-O-O Bd7 9. f4 b5 10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. f5 h5 12. Kb1 Qb6 13. Nxc6 Qxc6 14. Bd3 b4 15. Ne2 Qc5 16. fxe6 fxe6 17. e5 Qxe5 18. Rhe1 Bh6 19. Qxb4 Ke7 20. Nd4 Be3 21. Rxe3 Qxe3 22. Re1 Rhb8 23. Qc3 Qf2 24. Nf5+ Kd8 25. Nxd6 e5 26. b3 Rb6 27. Ne4 Qd4 28. Qd2 Kc7 29. Qe2 f5 30. c3 Qd5 31. Bc2 Rg8 32. c4 Qc6 33. Nc3 Rxg2 34. Qxe5+ Kb7 35. Nd5 Qxc4 36. Ne3 Qc6 37. Nxg2 Qxg2 38. Bxf5 Bxf5+ 39. Qxf5 Rc6 1-0This is the game that several sources were quoting which shows Nick was on the mark with his last comment.

[Jonathan Bryant]

It depends whether you define "arbiter not being aware of the tiebreak rules despite round 13 of 14 having just ended with the possibility of a tie-brea being required looming large" as 'confusing' or 'SNAFU'.

This one wasn't very sceptical, though of course it wasn't you.

Is it your contention that the arbiter *didnt* say what was attributed to them by Chess Vibes?

[JustinHorton]

The chess24 computer thinks Svidler just made a fairly bad move, which might be consequential.

EDIT: on further consideration it calms down a bit.