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"...At the end of the day Sergey Karjakin wins the World Cup! Congratulations to him and to Peter Svidler; both qualify for the Candidates Tournament. The President of FIDE, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, hinted that the Candidates had a "50% chance" of being held in America while the World Championship Match would most likely be held in either Chicago or Los Angeles. Nothing was confirmed, however..."


http://en.chessbase.com/post/baku-finals-tb-karjakin-wins


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Well LA has tons of chess players, maybe even more than NY. So LA is the "logical" choice. It would be cool for me too have it in Chicago. :cool:

Magnus has been seen in Silicon Valley, so that appears to be his preference:

"Rounded up my US trip with a Silicon Valley screening of the movie Pawn Sacrifice. Fun to chat with Tobey Maguire, who plays the role of Bobby Fischer in the film."


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Silicon valley is where the money is. Kasparov was in Silicon Valley for one day during Sinquefield Cup, meeting with Peter Thiel amongst others.
 
This is a great very time efficient way to see exciting World Championship chess. There are two formats, Rapid and Blitz. The difference is the time controls. Rapid is 15:15, and blitz is 3:3 with delay. Highly recommended that you tune in for say half an hour and watch! Be aware that there are breaks between rounds.

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At the world rapid championship, World Champions can get pretty sick of their play too. Magnus has played plenty of fast time controls to know that anything can happen when you have to move quickly. Doesn't ease the pain though and the disgust one gets over oneself...

http://www.nrk.no/video/PS*233797
 
Magnus makes it look effortless. Magnus is not in good form and is questioning whether he should change his style. I think what he should do is get into positionally complicated games where there are lots of underlying tactical motifs that accentuate positional gains Why not? Plays right into his strengths.

 
How close a correlation is there between "chess experts" and "rapid chess experts"? Are all the top Grandmasters generally about as good at rapid chess as their FIDE ratings suggest they "should be"? Or are there actually different rankings for speed games?
 
Xela said:
How close a correlation is there between "chess experts" and "rapid chess experts"? Are all the top Grandmasters generally about as good at rapid chess as their FIDE ratings suggest they "should be"? Or are there actually different rankings for speed games?
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If you go to http://www.2700chess.com/ you can see the top players in each category in which world championships can be won. You can sort any of the three categories and the other two will also display.

From this, it is not too hard to predict that the strongest classical chess player also tends to be the strongest Rapid and Blitz chess player. On the other hand, the other direction I think is much less predictive, with outliers occasionally making it to the top, especially in the faster time categories.

As far as historically, Capablanca

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is probably the greatest speed player that ever lived, giving his peers astonishing time odds and consistently winning. Consider also that when and old and sick Tal

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played in a massive blitz tournament with all the top players participating including the then World Champion Kasparov, he won the tournament. In contrast, when Fischer

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played all the best players in the world in blitz, including a Tal at the height of his powers, he beat them by a huge margin.

Magnus is on par with these players, but he is closest to Capablanca, pure effortless chess. Tal is a chess player from another world. And Fischer is, well, as close to a computer as a human being can get.

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Something common runs among these players that separates the genius chess players from the mere brilliant players - not just World Champions, but The Immortals - I don't know anyone can say what it is that makes them shine so bright on a chess board, but you know it when you see it.
 
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Magnus is not at the height of his powers yet, and imo he may reach a point where he would be odds on against Fischer in speed, but I don't think he is there yet. Hard to argue with the World Champion though. As for Capablanca, the difference in historical ages is so great it is nearly impossible to compare. Give either Capablanca or Fischer today five years at age 25 to get up to speed to modern chess, and Magnus might change his mind about his chances. Fischer with access to a computer engine like Komodo would probably reach 3000.

"...He as always been interested in the history of chess and has had the chance to play both Karpov and Kasparov, two legends of the game. But if he could play anyone in history who would it be? ‘I think the top ones would be Fischer and Capablanca, maybe Mikhail Tal, but I think I would beat Tal pretty easily. Fischer would be more difficult, but I think I could beat him too.’.."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-...by-girls-and-easily-bored-meet-magnus-carlse/

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