Chess Grand Slam Masters

[kujo]

The Chess Grand Slam Masters in Bilbao (Spain, September 15-27th).

The Bilbao Final Masters will have the winners of the other three Grand Slam tournaments. The total prize fund of the Final Masters in Bilbao will be 400.000 euros approximately. 
1. Corus Wijk aan Zee (The Nederlands, January 11-27th)
2. Linares (Spain, February 15th – March 9th)
3. M-Tel Masters Sofia (Bulgaria, May 6-18th)
A fourth Grand slam chess event (similar to tennis) was to be in Mexico city (June 21st – July 6th) which was cancelled at the last hour.

The players for Bilbao are:
Anand, Carlsen, Ivanchuk, Topalov, Radjabov and Aronian

It would be a unique tournament with no draw offers and a football scoring system of 3-1-0.  It will be played in a double round robin format during ten days (plus a two-day break). Playing time will be 90 minutes for the first 40 moves and another 60 minutes to finish the game. The total prize money amounts to €400,000, €150,000 for the first classified, €70,000 for the second one, €60,000 for the third one, €50,000 for the fourth one, €40,000 for the fifth one and €30,000 for the sixth one.


cheers
kujo

[jaydeep]

At €400K Grand Slam Chess Final Masters, Bilbao, Spain
(Category XXII tournament)

First Round

Vishy Anand - Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½
Teimour Radjabov - Veselin Topalov ½-½
Levon Aronian - Magnus Carlsen 0-1

Anand managed draw with whites but Carlsen had excellent start with blacks.

[jaydeep]

At €400K Grand Slam Chess Final Masters, Bilbao, Spain
(Category XXII tournament)

Second Round -
Vassily Ivanchuk - Magnus Carlsen ½-½
Veselin Topalov - Levon Aronian ½-½
Viswanathan Anand - Teimour Radjabov ½-½

Today all matches ended in a draw ... That means Carlsen managed to keep his minimum 2 pts lead over others.

[Sandeep]

Step by step graphics of Anand Vs Radjabov game

http://www.bilbaofinalmasters.com/parti ... ingles.htm

[jaydeep]

At €400K Grand Slam Chess Final Masters, Bilbao, Spain
(Category XXII tournament)

Third Round -
Teimour Radjabov - Vassily Ivanchuk ½-½
Levon Aronian - Viswanathan Anand ½-½
Magnus Carlsen - Veselin Topalov 0-1

So another draw for Vishy, this time playing with blacks.

By the way I m putting points which will be calculated towards ELO rating, where Topalov is leading by ½ pt ... Otherwise Topalov is leading by 1 pt after win over Carlsen.

[jaydeep]

At €400K Grand Slam Chess Final Masters, Bilbao, Spain
(Category XXII tournament)

Fourth Round -
Magnus Carlsen - Teimour Radjabov 1-0
Veselin Topalov - Viswanathan Anand 1-0
Levon Aronian - Vassily Ivanchuk 1-0

Vishy lost playing blacks against Topalov and he is also in the spot of bother as he will be losing load of ELO points ... Carlsen,Topalov and Aronian scored victories with playing whites ... This is not turning into right preparation for Anand to his World Championship match against Kramnik.

[jaydeep]

Yesterday I only checked result but today I shocked to see Anand resign in 25 moves ...

When the last time Anand resign game in 25 moves?

Jaydeep

[jaydeep]

At €400K Grand Slam Chess Final Masters, Bilbao, Spain
(Category XXII tournament)

Fifth Round -
Viswanathan Anand - Magnus Carlsen ½-½
Vassily Ivanchuk - Veselin Topalov ½-½
Teimour Radjabov - Levon Aronian ½-½

[jaydeep]

At €400K Grand Slam Chess Final Masters, Bilbao, Spain
(Category XXII tournament)

Sixth Round -
Vassily Ivanchuk - Viswanathan Anand ½-½
Veselin Topalov - Teimour Radjabov ½-½
Magnus Carlsen - Levon Aronian 1-0

So another draw for Anand ... Anand is in position of losing top-spot in ELO rating ...

Edited - Other hand Carlsen scored another victory against Aronian, this was his 3rd victory in this Grand Slam Masters.

[Sandeep]

Poor performance by Anand in this tournament so far! Hope he will turn the tables in the coming matches!

[jaydeep]

Anand managed another draw, but Carlsen lost against Ivanchuk playing with whites ... Aronian also scored victory with whites against Topalov, that means in standing now Anand and Radjabov r tied for the last position .

At €400K Grand Slam Chess Final Masters, Bilbao, Spain
(Category XXII tournament)

Seventh Round -
Magnus Carlsen - Vassily Ivanchuk 0-1
Teimour Radjabov - Viswanathan Anand ½-½
Levon Aronian - Veselin Topalov 1-0

[jaydeep]

Anand messed a perfectly good white game with a terrible blunder immediately after the first time control and lost after a 75-move struggle to survive ... Veselin Topalov defeated Magnus Carlsen's Sicilian Modern Dragon in 48 moves ... Vassily Ivanchuk pulled of win against Teimour Radjabov after a terrible time scramble.

At €400K Grand Slam Chess Final Masters, Bilbao, Spain
(Category XXII tournament)

Eighth Round -
Vassily Ivanchuk - Teimour Radjabov 1-0
Viswanathan Anand - Levon Aronian 0-1
Veselin Topalov - Magnus Carlsen 1-0

Anand is definitely going to lose his top position in new ranking which will declare in October ... In last 2 rounds he need to do some damage control with wins ... This isn't best preparation for his World Championship matches against Kramnik.

[jaydeep]

At €400K Grand Slam Chess Final Masters, Bilbao, Spain
(Category XXII tournament)

Ninth Round -
Vassily Ivanchuk - Levon Aronian ½-½
Teimour Radjabov - Magnus Carlsen ½-½
Viswanathan Anand - Veselin Topalov ½-½

Another disappointing result for Anand ... Topalov managed draw with blacks with Anand.

[jaydeep]

At €400K Grand Slam Chess Final Masters, Bilbao, Spain
(Category XXII tournament)

Tenth Round -
Veselin Topalov - Vassily Ivanchuk 1-0
Levon Aronian - Teimour Radjabov 0-1
Magnus Carlsen - Viswanathan Anand ½-½

Final Standing -
1 Veselin Topalov 6½ pts
2 Magnus Carlsen 5 pts
3 Levon Aronian 5 pts
4 Vassily Ivanchuk 5 pts
5 Teimur Radjabov 4½ pts
6 Viswanathan Anand 4 pts

In this tournament only Anand remained without single win ... Poor performance here will cost him around 14 ELO pts and in unofficial live rating Anand is dropped to 5th in standing with 2783.2 ELO pts ... Veselin Topalov is leading with 2790.6 ELO pts, 7 pts ahead Anand.