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Once I have seen a few games played by Morozevich, by curiosity. Impressive, his game play is very unorthodox and creative, but usually very risky. Once in a while his results are a little irregular or even poor due his tendence to take high risks, other times he has extraordinarily good performances, like a champion. If he is coming to San Luis in great form, he is capable to win the tittle, he can beat the players in the Tournament (he has did in the past at least once against the majority of them), but can also lose games, it depends on the others and on his temporary effusivity and audacity, because he is playing against the best players, and boldness can give him good or bad results, this is the elite, all of them are extremely strong players. Final results can show surprises, I think we are going to see unexpected results, and Morozevich can be a main actor in this Tournament, his style is enterely different from the rest.
To this precise moment: Anad beated Polgar, Topalov-Leko: draw, Svidler-Adams: draw, Morozevich-Kazimdzhanov: On play
CORRECTION: Leko blundered in the end!. Topalov won!. Kazimdzhanov seems a bit better than Moro, Anand beated Polgar with black, Svidler-Adams drawn
moro kasim is offically drawn now (go moro)
Topalov-Anand in a titanic fight. Now they are on move 28, Anand has quality advantage (Queen-Rook-Bishop against Queen and two bishops for Topalov), but a Topalov advanced (6th.) and well defended Pawn means, apparently, compensation enough, although Anand is a phenomenon defending positions, so don´t surprise he can defend and, finally, can win the game thanks the material slight advantage.
You can see the end of Topalov-Anand live at Chessgames, and the other games at FICS if you are registered. Anand can win the end, but it is not easy
Move 60, Topalov is in better position after many scaramouches, but the game is not decided yet, difficult end
Move 62. Bishops exchanged, Queens final. Topalov three Pawns, Anand one, but in 7th. I don´t know what can happen now. I´m unable to make a pronostic, perhaps Fritz of Chessmaster can guess the result.
Move 98. It seems a draw, regardless the two Pawns and Queen vs. Queen in favour of Topalov. This game can be a candidate for the new immortal blunders game of highest level
All games drawn. According to Chessmaster, Moro could win in some moment before the end, Adams could win in some moment before the end, Anand was in an absolute winner position in some moments on 40´s-50´s, and Topalov could easely win in four positions after 50´s. Lots of 'relatively mortal' blunders in this game, also according to Chessmaster, it should be normal if the players would be others like me, but it is incredible being Topa and Vishy the top ranked players in the world. I am not satisfied after spending my afternoon seeing this game. At least, I have not had to pay for see it.
Anand won against Adams, a game in which Anand sacrificed an incredible amount of pieces. Amazing, to see. Moro and Topalov are on move 57 now, a game in which I have not idea what is really happening, Moro´s style, but the contendor is not other but Topa. All can happen in this extremely interesting game.
Anand vs. Adams, 1-0, Polgar beated Kasim, Svidler beated Leko (!). Moro and Topa still playing, another marathon for the bulgarian. No pronostics yet
Topalov won. It is very possible that predictions are correct, the next world FIDE-Chess champion is going to be one of these: Topalov or Anand.
Leko, Peter - Polgar, Judit 1-0 25 moves Sicilian Paulsen Kasimdzhanov, Rustam - Anand, Viswanathan 1-0 38 moves Sicilian Najdorf Variation...
Anand beated himself. After two weak moves and finally an incredible blunder, he rapidly saw how Kasim constructed a mate-in-two position. Topalov is suffering in a complex position in which Adams has chances and the initiative for now. To be honest, Baku´s monster has not good succesors. Neither Topa nor Anand or the others can be compared with Kasparov. It is my modest opinion.
Topalov won. He is going to be solitaire leader with tow-points advantage
Anand lose: This can happen when a player is playing over-confident. After an initial good attack, Anand was apparently affected in his concentration by a Kasim unexpected defensive move, commiting two consecutive errors and finally a brutal blunder after which he was soon in a mate-in-two position. Topalov qon convincingly. Moro and Svidler are in a difficult end with A Rook and Queen per band, plus three or four Pawns.
You can see the end of the game Moro-Svidler for free here: http://web.t-online.hu/passant/sakkvb/d/sakkvb.htm
Svidler won his game against Moro (nice end of game), and Svidler is now second with 3.0/4... Topalov is ahead with 3.5/4 (amazing performance!) and Anand is third with 2.5/4...
NOW: Topalov-Svidler: After 22 moves, Topalov has two Rooks, Knight and 6 Pawns against Svidler´s Rook, Knight, pair of Bishops and four Pawns. I think Topalov can win again, although there are many moves to play yet. If Topa succeeds, it will be an incredible performance: 4 wins, one draw against the world elite. It is like a >3000 ELO player
Topalov won again. 4.5/5 against the world elite means a performance of 3109 ELO
Anand-Leko was a draw, as the other two games. Now Topalov is ahead with 1.5 points of advantage, playing agressively and risky, but with high precision. Pression has its effects, Svidler have had a theoretical even position, but he played weakly close to move 37-38. Anand could win, but it was not easy and Leko defended well. I think Topo is going to be the Champion, 1.5 points is too much because he has played mostly with black pieces and in the first stage he has played against the most hard players on the paper.
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