Berlin Candidates R11 thread

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Don't be dissing my nigga Kramnik, everything's going JUST as he planned.

>has mate in one
>blunders stalemate
Told you I was winning.

At least he beat Aronian yesterday, and he's playing Caruana today. It looks drawish, but if he can work that Kramnik magic, Caruana shouldn't feel too safe.

I refuse to believe Caruana will win this. I will boycott chess if he becomes world champion.

>seething this much

Keep in mind this is just the qualification, not the championship itself.

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Yeah, I'm aware. Would root for Carlsen in the final, I guess.

I thought you disliked Norwegians.

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Why would I do that?

Because we always beat Sweden in sports.

Really? Can't even remember when we last played you in football. Our rivalry has always been with Denmark.

>football

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Ding may finally win a game

Same.
It's just too awful to be true.

>rest in pepperoni
Based Svidler, busting out his Sup Forums lingo.

Uhh, Karjakin is only a point behind.

Our boy Svidler

I can't belive how Ding botched this win. Holy shit. Did Trump instate a 50% tariff on Chinese wins as well?

Aronian:
>11th
>↓6
>2772.8
>−21.2
JUST

>-21
Yeah a bad tournament will do that to you. Nothing too extreme desu. I think it happened to Fabi after Wijk Aan Zee.

Too bad Lev keeps choking the candidates. Not sure what's up with that.

>the city of ding

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> DrawING Liren

Ding 'Anish' Liren
He was like +14 at one point, how did he choke this hard?

>Ding
If you don't win positions like this, you may want to consider switching to Minecraft.

Please God, let it be Mamedyarov, an actually likeable guy who plays interesting chess or Grischuk for the memes. Hell, even the stuttering autist would do. Anything but the american opening-babby

Carlsen will crush all of the remaining contenders

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But he can't crush based Svidler.

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Amazingly, he didn't see 29. Nd8, cutting off the back-rank defenses while attacking Bb7. The Knight is immune because of the constant Qe8+ threat and Black completely falls apart.

After than, he played completely counter-productive Qh5 and bunch of other questionable moves that allowed Grischuk to play on at the cost of an exchange.

A coffehouse player would've unironically done better.

Shouldn't you be busy posting analysis videos on chess24 even though you just commentated live games for 8 hours, Peter?

He was under time pressure to hit the 40 move control and Grischuk did well to find tricky moves like Nd1. But yeah, incredible how many wins he missed

I meant Nc1

literally Ding

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Qh2 is best mate tbqh.

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Shame about the thug life cringe but this is a pretty good compilation

That's it, I can't see anyone overtaking the retard now.
Ugh.

Grischuk has White against Aronian tomorrow, then Black against Mamedyarov and White against Caruana in the final round.
If he's within striking distance then Caruana will fold because he's a mental midget.

also a literal midget

Karjakin is playing well, is now within a point and has white against Fabi next.
He could meme his way in again.

To think he began with -2.

He began on 0 like everybody else m8

>Putin wins the elections
>Karjakin goes on a roll

Oh, those Russians.

Did the Russians hack the tournament to have Karjakin win?

Hmmmmmmmm

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Problem?

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thats a lotta plastic for a norwegian giel

kek

>A FUCKING PETROFF
Does Fabi not want to win?

Interestingly, if Karjakin wins against Caruana, and Grischuk wins against Aronian, we could have a four-way tie for the lead with two rounds to go, assuming Ding continues his drawing streak.

He's fine with a draw

We've already established that he's a mental midget. Just wait until you see the rivers of sweat pouring from his brow in the final round

reminder fabihaters are literally redddit

Out of the four players on a plus score, Caruana is my second favourite. At this point, I'm rooting for Grischuk.

Obviously, #I'm with him, but I wouldn't mind seeing Grischuk win either
Really happy with the results yesterday as these last rounds will be exciting

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Fabi is far and away the most reddit player in the field

It's his turn.

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Exchange sacrifice by Karjakin.

Kramnik gave up a horsey to get two passed pawns

Aronian is the most likeable and Caruana the least likeable.
Grischuk is the funniest and Caruana is the least funny.
Mamedyarov is the most humble, Caruana is the least humble.
So has overcome adversity to be where he is, Caruana has never overcome adversity.
Karjakin is self-effacing, Caruana is often self-important and smug.
Ding is shy and quiet, Caruana can't stop talking with that awful voice of his.
>Only Kramnik is as unpleasant as Caruana, I can't find anything good about him that would contrast with something bad about Caruana.

Kramnik is tall, Caruana is short

why are you so obsessed with Fabio

has he touched your mom inappropriately or something?

he fugged his sister in madrid

Based eirebro.

I just don't like him.
Doesn't it happen to you, to fundamentally dislike someone?

But you are really making Fabi rent free.

Hahaha.
Oh god, this is so good.

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It's like two different species.

This. Fuck Caruana. Can't stand the fag.

Aronian has 1 hour
grischuk has 11 minutes

Sasha always does this.
Hopefully he can pull it off, Aronian is a joke right now.

Why does his eyes point in opposite directions?

One eye on the board, one eye on the prize.

And now Wesley gave the horsey back

>Shak and Fabi in trouble
*sweating intensifies*

>yfw Ding comes out of nowhere to win the tournament

fabi now lost :(

>svidler said that mamedyarov is the biggest cardio freak among chess players

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How will Ding job this time?

Meh, Shak will lose and Caruana will manage to tie.

Hikaru was in the chessbrah chat today and he is running a half marathon today.

Karjakin will win and Ding will throw the win away.

Caruana tie and Ding win is more realistic atm.

It's not called "tie". It's called a "draw", you disgusting Portuguese.

is such a thing even possible?
gonna have to start investing in litecoin and drinking redbull now

Fabi made a booboo

Caruana so lucky that Shakh lost.

Tournament seems wide open now.

Mame resigned, Karjakin found g5 and is tightening the noose.

>2018 is gonna be another Carlsen vs Carjacking year
Rather you just kill me now tbhwyfam

mfw 5 people within a half point of the lead after this round

Karjakin hasn't won quite yet.

>(You)

Inevitable now, even I can calculate the mating net.

Caruana is kill

Well, he has now.

looks like its gonna come down to the last rounds!

So Karjakin has the tiebreak over fabi and has the most total wins with four.
Karjakin is one of the last people I would expect to not convert from a very obvious winning position such as that one.
'no'

leading to another boring championship with sergey and magnus

Grischuk will take it.