The candidates tournament to the challenger for Chess World Championship will start tomorrow. 8 of the best players playing a double round robin, the winner will play a match vs Magnus Carlsen for the title. Anyone betting on it? I rather like Topalov as a dark horse, as he is streaky and draws less that the rest. IMO he is the most likely to finish last, but also a good value for winning at +1000. When he is at his best (as San Luis 2005) he is unstoppable. OTOH, he may be the weakest on rapid chess, so it would be very hard to win a rapid tiebreak.
BTW, nice article at chessbase: http://en.chessbase.com/post/compute...didates-winner
BTW, nice article at chessbase: http://en.chessbase.com/post/compute...didates-winner