Playing the percentages

You can’t go much wrong by predicting draws. That’s how games between players of similar strength usually end. At least I got three predictions right this time. Nevertheless my score could have been better since MVL came close after Topalov fell into an opening trap, but unfortunately it turned out to be too difficult to convert. To be fair, I didn’t expect such a battle between Giri and Ding and I didn’t expect Caruana to allow Svidler to set up a position with a symmetrical pawn structure either. Come on, how can you play the Lasker against a guy who is struggling that much? Actually Fabi actually got lucky that Peter spoils all his good positions too.

Round 4 predictions:
Aronjan-Caruana 1/2
Nakamura-Topalov 1-0
Ding-Anand 1/2
So-Giri 1/2
MVL-Svidler 1-0

 

P.S.: Congratulations to Stockfish for finally beating Komodo in TCEC again.