Well, it seems that there is a monster in town, and no, my friend, he is not a talented norwegian boy, he comes from the land of pizza and macaroni. Fabiano Caruana has defeated every single top player in the Sinquefield cup, including no other than current world champion and number 1 Magnus Carlsen. To put Caruana's performance in context we must remember some other great winning streaks such as Fischer's interzonal-candidates (including 6-0 over Taimanov and 6-0 over Larsen), Karpov at Linares 1994, Topalov at San Luis 2006. So, we must wait for the second leg of this tournament, Caruana can still enhance his score, there is a nice article at chess.com These recent results from Caruana just confirm that he is the closer contender for Magnus Carlsen, the world champion has been affected by a decline in his game since the olympiad in Norway, there must be some psychological component on it, since he is not even close to his impressive results from the last 3 years. Now, fo
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