June 23, 2013

GELFAND OF ISRAEL SHOCKS TAL MEMORIAL WITH FANTASTIC PLAY..WORLD #1 CARLSEN OF NORWAY IS SECOND … Moscow, Russia … an electrifying 10 super grandmaster tourney triumph for B.GELFAND /ISRAEL WITH 6POINTS FROM 9 POSSIBLE … World number one Carlsen/ 5.5 second … stopped cold  with a final round draw today by S.MAMEDYAROV (third place!) … the tourney was so tremendously strong and fierce that bottom places –ninth and last ( THREE POINT MINUS SCORE AT 3-9!) were shared by both WORLD CHAMPION ANAND/ INDIA  (plays Carlsen for millions  at Chennai, India this November) and former world champion KRAMNIK … American chess monster Nakamura (even score 4.5 mark!) WAS ONLY STOPPED in grand finale fashion … on the receiving end of three straight and fabulous torch “kill or be killed” game losses versus GELFAND, CARLSEN, AND MOROZEVIC … ALL COMING BACK TO BACK IN THE FINAL THREE ROUNDS … NAKAMURA ALSO WON THE WORLD FIDE  RATED SPEED TOURNEY against all the world’s best … kicking off the Tal Memorial two weeks ago.

Photo credit: Hans Peeters