Tuesday
Oct192010
Nanjing, Round 1 Pairings
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 6:29PM
The tournament is in Nanjing, China, which means it starts earlier (relatively speaking) than most events. More specifically, 2:30 a.m. ET (8:30 a.m. CET) tomorrow/today. Here are the first round pairings:
Anand - Wang Yue
Carlsen - Bacrot
Topalov - Gashimov
Get your predictions in now. Which of the players with White in round 1 will win the tournament? (It's not impossible that one of the other three will win...but I wouldn't bet on them, even with someone else's money. [Of course, I'm not going to bet, period; it's just a figure of speech in my case.])
Reader Comments (1)
Anand is the one to put your money on as both Topalov and Carlsen are not in top form now. Anand is mostly good in round robin tournaments. So I am sure it will be Anand. Other players don't have much chance against the top 3.
[DM: Topalov isn't in the top 3, he's #5. Aronian is unofficially #2 right now.]