Tuesday Roundup: Shankland-Svidler, TCEC 13 Superfinal, IOM (Updated)
A quick recap, especially since many of my readers will be watching game 1 of the World Series tonight and/or the HBO special mentioned in the previous post.
Let's start with the TCEC 13 Superfinal. It's already 4-2 in Stockfish's favor against Komodo (only 94 games to go). The reason I'm mentioning the match again is that games 7 and 8 are (and will be) King's Gambit Accepteds, to coin a word, so they should be entertaining.
Game 3 of the match between Sam Shankland and Peter Svidler was drawn, making it 1.5-1.5 at the halfway point. Svidler has White in game 4. On the undercard between Vladimir Fedoseev and Jorden Van Foreest, game 3 was also draw--that's three for three so far.
Finally, the round 4 results at the Isle of Man tournament were pretty conventional. Among the perfect scores, Jeffery Xiong drew with White against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, while in the other two games the higher-rated player had White and won: Wang Hao against Erwin L'Ami and Arkadij Naiditisch against Pavel Tregubov.
The highest-rated players in the 2.5 point score group - Levon Aronian, Wesley So, Alexander Grischuk, and Sergey Karjakin - all drew, but plenty of other 2.5 pointers won. And the top players who were on 2 points all won: Anish Giri, Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, and Hikaru Nakamura, in each case with White.
Here are the top round 5 pairings:
- Wang Hao (4) - Naiditsch (4)
- Vachier-Lagrave (3.5) - Parligras (3.5)
- Rapport (3.5) - Xiong (3.5)
- Gupta (3.5) - Vidit (3.5)
- Aronian (3) - Kovalev (3)
- L'Ami (3) - Giri (3)
- So (3) - Melkumyan (3)
- Grischuk (3) - Short (3)
- Shirov (3) - Nakamura (3)
- Karjakin (3) - Sevian (3)
There are six more boards with 3-pointers, but we'll leave further 3-pointers to the NBA and call it a post.
UPDATE: The correction has already been made above, which is that all three games of the Fedoseev-Van Foreest match have been drawn.
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