11/13/2016 – While Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin play for the World Title in New York, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Vishy Anand and Veselin Topalov show their skills in classical, rapid and blitz chess in the 2016 Champions Showdown in St. Louis. Two days of play are left, Anand and Topalov lead. An illustrated report.
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Champions Showdown 2016: Anand and Topalov lead after the classical games
A preview of the tournament and its format
Round Robin 02 — Round Two
With 2.5/4 Vishy Anand began day three in the first place. Veselin Topalov had bamboozled Caruana in the first round with a fine, intuitive sacrifice, but then had blundered against Nakamura in round three - after four rounds he had 2.0/4. With one win, one loss and two draws Hikaru Nakamura also had 2.0/4. Fabiano Caruana was yet to win.
Results Round Robin 02 - Round Two:
White
Result
Black
Nakamura, Hikaru
1 - 0
Caruana, Fabiano
Anand, Viswanathan
½ - ½
Topalov, Veselin
Things became worse for Caruana in the second round of the second round robin.
Nakamura won a pawn and then things just got better and better.
In the first round robin Topalov defeated Caruana and only lost to Nakamura. In the second round robin things went differently: Nakamura beat Caruana but lost to Topalov!
A lot of chess fans were glad when Magnus Carlsen did not try the Berlin against Sergey Karjakin in round two of their match in New York. But in St. Louis Nakamura tried against Topalov! And an interesting game developed...
Anand drew both of his games on day three to finish the classical leg of the multi-format tournament with 3.5/6. He now leads together with Topalov who also has 3.5/6.
Standings:
Rank
Name
Rating
Classical
Rapid
Blitz
Total Score
1-2
GM Viswanathan Anand
2779
3½/6
-
-
3½
1-2
GM Veselin Topalov
2760
3½/6
-
-
3½
3
GM Hikaru Nakamura
2779
3/6
-
-
3
4
GM Fabiano Caruana
2823
2/6
-
-
2
Games
There are many good reasons to watch the broadcast of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis. One is is the sheer quality of it.
Guest commentator for the third day of play was Garry Kasparov who joined Tania Sachdev, Yasser Seirawan, and Alejandro Ramirez to entertain the viewers.
An added feature to this tournament is that anyone can make a phone call to the commentators and ask questions that they have. It gives you a unique opportunity to speak to great chess players and ask them questions about chess which have always been on your mind. The live commentary can be followed here and the phone number to call is 314-361-5465. The live broadcast begins at 1 p.m. local time in Saint Louis.
Go to 01:25:10 if you want to jump directly to the point when Kasparov joins the commentators!
In this 2-min video, Nakamura talks about his recent blitz match with Carlsen
A 1-min clip in which Alejandro Ramirez asks Caruana a number of quick questions.
he 2016 Champions Showdown shall be an exhibition event featuring four players (Viswanathan Anand, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Veselin Topalov). Over five days, the Players shall complete two Classical Round Robins (G/60 +5” delay), two Rapid Round Robins (G/15 +5” delay) and four Blitz Round Robins (G/3 +2” delay).
Day
Date
Time
Showdown in Saint Louis
Wednesday
9-Nov
Arrival
Thursday
10-Nov
1:00 PM
RR1: Round 1
3:30 PM
RR1: Round 2
Friday
11-Nov
1:00 PM
RR1: Round 3
3:30 PM
RR2: Round 1
Saturday
12-Nov
1:00 PM
RR2: Round 2
3:30 PM
RR2: Round 3
Sunday
13-Nov
1:00 PM
Rapid (6 rounds)
Monday
14-Nov
1:00 PM
Blitz (12 rounds)
Tuesday
15-Nov
Departure
Place
Prize
1st
$60,000
2nd
$40,000
3rd
$30,000
4th
$20,000
Total Prize Fund: $150,000 USD
When:
November 10th, 2016 1:00 PM CST through November 14th, 2016 12:00 AM CST
Location:
Chess Club & Scholastic Center of Saint Louis 4657 Maryland Ave Saint Louis MO 63108 United States
Priyadarshan BanjanPriyadarshan Banjan is a 23-year-old club player from India. He works as an editor for ChessBase News and ChessBase India. He is a chess fanatic and an avid fan of Vishy Anand. He also maintains a blog on a variety of topics.
The photo in which Kasparov appears seems to be from archive!
flachspieler 11/14/2016 05:46
My 2 cent: November 2016 may become a catastrophy for US chess.
(i) "They" are not represented in the WCC by players.
(ii) For compensatition they run an alternative tournament, with two guest dinosaurs (Anand and Topalov) and "the" two US stars. Leading are the (non US) dinos.
thlai80 11/14/2016 12:48
@fons, and Kasparov shows up at the world championship in the 2nd game. So who's point falls flat??
fons 11/13/2016 08:02
Aighearach: Kasparov is a very harsh critic of the people who currently run FIDE. (Rightly so.) Kasparov is not going to help FIDE promote their events if he can avoid it. So you might as well see this as a political statement. In any case your argument falls flat I'm afraid.
Aighearach 11/13/2016 07:39
Great to see Kasparov show up, that certainly shut up the people who felt offended that the event was even happening! I guess it is allowed for Americans to have a tournament at the same time as the WCC after all, same as everybody else. ;)
Surely if this was some great insult the game, Kasparov would be able to tell!
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