Anand Wins Round 1 2016 Chess Candidate Tournament

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2016 World Chess Candidates Tournament participants

portraits from the official website

That's right, the 2016 World Chess Candidate Tournament is start! Round 1 see the pairings of the eight players as below. Vishwanathan Anand is setting a big chance of Carlsen vs Anand part III by scoring first victory in first round, knocked down Veselin Topalov. The game when wild when Topalov try to put the middlegame into very sharp, allowing Anand to capture his b pawn. The game went not in Topalov favor and Anand able to close the game with victory. The other games rather easy draw. Nakamura play peaceful against countryman Fabiano Caruana. Svidler vs Karjakin quite similar and draw. The longest game is Anish Giri vs Levon Aronian, also drawn in the end.

Partai catur - Sergey Karjakin vs Peter Svidler 1/2-1/2, Moscow Candidate 2016
Partai catur - Hikaru Nakamura vs Fabiano Caruana 1/2-1/2, Moscow Candidate 2016
Partai catur - Anish Giri vs Levon Aronian, Moscow Candidate 2016
Partai catur - Viswanathan Anand vs Veselin Topalov 1-0, Moscow Candidate 2016

Of the eight participants, Sergey Karjakin and Peter Svidler is the second last to be included, result of their victory in 2015 Chess World Cup. Vishy Anand is the first to be confirmed, as far as I know, by becomde the runner up of World Chess Championship 2014, behind Magnus Carlsen. All the rest of player included by winning Grand Prix tournament and also by rating. Fabiano Caruana is the strongest player by rating, followed by Anish Giri and Hikaru Nakamura. Vishy Anand is the oldest player, and most experiences with five times World Champion title and multiple times as chess challenger. Then Veselin Topalov come in the next as most experience, he himself an ex-world champion. Peter Svidler is the third in seniority, however Peter is the least strong player by rating.

On the young guns there is Sergey Karjakin and Levon Aronian in the middle board. Levon Aronian is actually the last confirmed player, present in Moscow as organizer wild card. Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura seem like to be the most favorite player in the this tournament. Anish Giri is the youngest and somehow got in between the lions.

There is a big battle on boards, and also for chess fans a big battle on how to watch it!
The official website and organizer actually provide the simplest way. Just watch them on their website, and they really mean it.

LIVE screen shot from official broadcast website

Anand vs Topalov

LIVE screen shot from official broadcast website

Anish Giri vs Levon Aronian screen shot

official commentator team

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Turnamen kandidat penantang catur 2016 telah dimulai malam ini. Delapan pecatur super kuat berhasil terkumpul dengan berbagai metode kualifikasi dan mereka akan bertanding satu sama lain untuk menentukan siapa yang berhak nantinya menantang Magnus Carlsen untuk gelar juara dunia.

Urutan terkuat dari daftar peserta turnamen kandidat ini adalah pecatur asal Italia, Fabiano Caruana. Dari segi rating, Caruana lebih unggul 1 poin saja dari pecatur peserta termuda asal Belanda, Anish Giri. Sedangkan Hikaru Nakamura dari Amerika ada di seed ke tiga, Hikaru Nakamura tampak nya sangat berambisi untuk bisa berjumpa dengan Magnus Carlsen. Kalau sampai terjadi duel Nakamura vs Carslen maka bisa dipastikan dwitarung mereka akan panas dan sedap ditonton. 

Pecatur Armenia, Levon Aronian, walaupun cukup bersaing dengan rekan-rekannya selama sepuluh tahun belakangan, Levon Aronian dihadirkan di Moscow dengan status wildcard, alias undangan. Vishy Anand adalah pecatur paling senior dan paling banyak pengalaman. Dia adalah lima kali juara Dunia yang sudah mempertahankan gelarnya beberapa kali. Anand juga sangat berpengalaman dalam hal menjadi penantang juara dunia, mulai dari menantang Kasparov, Karpov dan Magnus Carlsen beberapa tahun silam.

Veselin Topalov juga masih cukup diperhitungkan. Pecatur Bulgaria ini adalah juga ex juara dunia. Di papan tengah tinggal Sergey Karjakin yang masih cukup "miskin" gelar. Gelar juara Karjakin yang paling bergengsi adalah juara Piala Dunia tahun 2015 lalu. Yang terakhir dan paling bontot dari peserta adalah Peter Svidler, runner up Piala Dunia 2015. Peter memang pecatur yang cukup berpengalaman, namun sepuluh tahunan ini Peter hanya pecatur elit yang cukup kesulitan masuk ke top ten. 

Ronde pertama menghasilkan point satu untuk Vishwanathan Anand. Anand mengalahkan Veselin Topalov di partai Ruy Lopez yang liar. Sementara itu tiga partai lainnya remis begitu saja. Lihat gamenya di atas.