Isle of Man LIVE

10/28/2018 – The next major event on the chess calendar is the Chess.com Isle of Man International which runs from October 20th to 28th and includes ten players from the top 20 and a number of other players over 2700. Live games and commentary from 14:00 CET (12:00 UT) each day. Also this week are the Hoogeveen matches in Holland with three more members of the top 30 in action. | Photo: Chess.com/Maria Emelianova (official site)

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Round 9

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The format is a nine-round Open Swiss with one game per day beginning at 15:30 CEST (13:30 UT) through October 28th (the final round nine begins at 14:00 CEST / 12:00 UT).

Players receive 100 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds per move starting from move one.

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My Path to the Top

On this DVD Vladimir Kramnik retraces his career from talented schoolboy to World Champion in 2006. With humour and charm he describes his first successes, what it meant to be part of the Russian Gold Medal team at the Olympiad, and how he undertook the Herculean task of beating his former mentor and teacher Garry Kasparov.

Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
1	13	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	2721	6½	½ - ½	6½	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	2727	10
2	29	GM	Xiong Jeffery	2656	6	½ - ½	6	GM	Jones Gawain C B	2677	24
3	7	GM	Grischuk Alexander	2769	5½	1 - 0	6	GM	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	2780	3
4	12	GM	Wang Hao	2722	6	½ - ½	5½	GM	Anand Viswanathan	2771	6
5	25	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2673	5½	½ - ½	5½	GM	Giri Anish	2780	2
6	33	GM	Shirov Alexei	2636	5½	0 - 1	5½	GM	Kramnik Vladimir	2779	4
7	8	GM	Nakamura Hikaru	2763	5½	1 - 0	5½	GM	Eljanov Pavel	2703	18
8	41	GM	Fridman Daniel	2600	5½	½ - ½	5½	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2760	9
9	11	GM	Rapport Richard	2725	5½	½ - ½	5½	GM	Leko Peter	2690	22
10	15	GM	Adams Michael	2712	5½	0 - 1	5½	GM	Adhiban B.	2668	26

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Commentary by GM Daniel King and IM Anna Rudolf

Final standings (top 30)

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	TB1
1	10	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw			2727	7,0
	13	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij			2721	7,0
3	4	GM	Kramnik Vladimir			2779	6,5
	7	GM	Grischuk Alexander			2769	6,5
	8	GM	Nakamura Hikaru			2763	6,5
	12	GM	Wang Hao			2722	6,5
	24	GM	Jones Gawain C B			2677	6,5
	26	GM	Adhiban B.			2668	6,5
	29	GM	Xiong Jeffery			2656	6,5
10	2	GM	Giri Anish			2780	6,0
	3	GM	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime			2780	6,0
	6	GM	Anand Viswanathan			2771	6,0
	9	GM	Karjakin Sergey			2760	6,0
	11	GM	Rapport Richard			2725	6,0
	14	GM	Le Quang Liem			2715	6,0
	16	GM	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi			2711	6,0
	17	GM	Artemiev Vladislav			2706	6,0
	19	GM	Almasi Zoltan			2702	6,0
	22	GM	Leko Peter			2690	6,0
	23	GM	Howell David W L			2689	6,0
	25	GM	Sethuraman S.P.			2673	6,0
	27	GM	Kovalev Vladislav			2664	6,0
	28	GM	Melkumyan Hrant			2660	6,0
	35	GM	Sutovsky Emil			2633	6,0
	36	GM	Parligras Mircea-Emilian			2623	6,0
	37	GM	Ganguly Surya Shekhar			2622	6,0
	41	GM	Fridman Daniel			2600	6,0
	84	IM	Kashlinskaya Alina	w		2447	6,0
29	1	GM	Aronian Levon			2780	5,5
	5	GM	So Wesley			2776	5,5

Starting rank (top 20)

No.		Name	FideID	FED	Rtg
1	GM	Aronian Levon	13300474	ARM	2780
2	GM	Giri Anish	24116068	NED	2780
3	GM	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	623539	FRA	2780
4	GM	Kramnik Vladimir	4101588	RUS	2779
5	GM	So Wesley	5202213	USA	2776
6	GM	Anand Viswanathan	5000017	IND	2771
7	GM	Grischuk Alexander	4126025	RUS	2769
8	GM	Nakamura Hikaru	2016192	USA	2763
9	GM	Karjakin Sergey	14109603	RUS	2760
10	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	1118358	POL	2727
11	GM	Rapport Richard	738590	HUN	2725
12	GM	Wang Hao	8602883	CHN	2722
13	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	4650891	AZE	2721
14	GM	Le Quang Liem	12401137	VIE	2715
15	GM	Adams Michael	400041	ENG	2712
16	GM	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	5029465	IND	2711
17	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	24101605	RUS	2706
18	GM	Eljanov Pavel	14102951	UKR	2703
19	GM	Almasi Zoltan	702293	HUN	2702
20	GM	Gelfand Boris	2805677	ISR	2701

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