Sinquefield Round 4 : Caruana in stellar orbit

Fabiano Caruana is about to collide with the moon...

With a perfect score after 4 rounds in such a tournament, we can say that Caruana is a leader in a pure Fischer's style... The world champion is already 2,5 points behind...
A second tournament is about to start : the fight for the second place...

Carlsen "Fabiano is landing on the moon..."

Topalov "Nooo???"

Caruana 1-0 Aronian
MVL ½-½ Nakamura
Carlsen ½-½ Topalov

					1		2		3		4		5		6			Perf
1.	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2801	*	*	1	.	.	.	1	.	1	.	1	.	4	Stellar
2.	Vachier-Lagrave, M	g	FRA	2768	0	.	*	*	½	.	½	.	1	.	.	.	2	2817
3.	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2787	.	.	½	.	*	*	½	.	½	.	0	.	1½	2718
4.	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2877	0	.	½	.	½	.	*	*	.	.	½	.	1½	2695
5.	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2805	0	.	0	.	½	.	.	.	*	*	1	.	1½	2695
6.	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2772	0	.	.	.	1	.	½	.	0	.	*	*	1½	2730

- Sinquefield Round 3 : Caruana Big Boss after defeating Carlsen -

3/3! Fabiano couldn't hope for a better start...

Nine games and only three draws for the time being. What a start !
What to say about the performance of the italian GM? Amazing ! For the time being, it is just perfect.
Caruana is already 2 points ahead of the world champion and solidly installed on the second rank in the live rating with 2815... Amazing...

Sinquefield Round 2 : Caruana & Aronian winners of the day.

Don't worry... It will be an easy draw with black

Caruana 1-0 MVL
MVL has been quite unlucky by falling into a great preparation from Caruana. This one prepared this line few months ago for Mamedyarov. Bad luck for Maxime.

Aronian 1-0 Topalov
Aronian choose a complicate line with an exchange sacrifice. Topalov strangely choose to castle under fire and then quickly collapse... A very bad start of tournament for the bulgarian player.

Nakamura ½-½ Carlsen
Carlsen unusual - as usual - opening leaded to a tense middle game, where black, by giving a pawn, had some initiative. The world champion choose a perpetual line to get a quit easy draw. Now Carlsen will have white two times in a row.

The greatest tournament ever !?

The « greatest tournament ever » takes place in the famous Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint-Louis, Missouri, from August 27th to September 7th. 

It’s strange to me to qualify a tournament to be the « greatest ever » without any Kasparov, Karpov or Fischer… Carlsen may be, by far, the best current player in the world, he cannot be compared - for the time being - to the greatest chess legends…

But Ok.. it’s an ELO point of view (Cat.23, 2804 avg ELO). So let’s call it like that…

Caïssa’s Summer game, round 7

Hi Guys,

With this post, I officially close the question 6 of the summer quiz.

The answer was... Boris Spassky ! 
Congratulations to those of found the answer and sent it to me !
So, here the standing, with names or alias of the players:

		Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q5	Q6	All Quiz
1	James IPFuTuR	1	4	2	3	3	1	14
2	OlivierH	2	2	3	1	1	4	13
3	Vincent Moret	1	3	4		1	1	10
4	Philippe Carlier					4	2	6
5	Tristan			1		1	3	5
6	Myma (Alexis)		0	0	2	2	0	4
7	Hassan Sadeghi	4						4
8	Jean PY	3	1					4
9	StellaG				4			4
10	ChessStorm	1				1		2
11	Kloch			1			1	2
12	Faloui	0				1	1	2
13	Pascal Gaulupeau		1	0				1
14	Serge Picard		1					1
15	Guy Laroche		1					1
16	H.Jadot	0		0	1			1
17	Laurence F				1			1
18	TournetLuce						1	1

James IPFuTur is now just one point ahead, just before the VERY LAST QUIZ !

To close this summer quiz, you'll have 3 questions for the following diagram :

Question 1 : put the black king so that black is chekmate

Question 2 : put the black king so that black is stalemate

Question 3 : put the black king so that white has a mate in one move

Of course, there's only one solution for each question.

You'll win points for each question !

send your answer to contact@caissaprod.com

Remember, the first 3 winners will received a promo code to get Chess News 2 for free!

You don’t have an iOS device? Well… just play for fun and glory ;-)

Good luck to all !

quiz 1 / quiz 2 / quiz 3 / quiz 4 / quiz 5 / quiz 6

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