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I agree, add Bacrot and Grischuk... I was tempted to add Francisco Vallejo, but he is an irregular player in his results. My main candidates for 2013 still are the solid Nakamura (Kramnik style?) and the creative Karjiakin, I have seen a few games played by these two young players, and both are very deep strong players, each one in his style. I have not seen games played by Teimour Radjabov, but I have read he is an unorthodox player (Harikrishna too), and many times he plays in extreme risks, somewhat Fischer style.
The little boy Magnus Carlsen is a good candidate for the future. This child is the youngest Grand-Master in the world. Kasparov has signailed him as possible succesor (recently, Magnus finished in a draw a game against Kasparov in a rapid Tournament), and he is in a meteoric ascense. This year, Magnus has beated Alexei Shirov (!)...
There are only a few players in the world that have beated Garry Kasparov ate least once. Teimour Radjabov beated Kasparov in Linares 2003, when Teimour was 15 y.o. (!)
This year, Bacrot won the strong 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament... This year, Harikrishna won (tied with Gelfand (>2700!) ), the Bermuda Festival Tournament.
Some young talents are growing and mastering step by step, it is a difficult path to the top. Regularity is important, many good players have good days and bad days, but performance must be mantained, more or less. Karjakin still needs time, he has showed excellent results many times, and bad results other days. In his match against Nakamura in Mexico, he was smashed by Hikaru, but it is not indicative yet, we need wait to see the next confrontations. I was tempted to add Francisco Vallejo, a notorious strong young Spanish player, but he is irregular sometimes, you can see fantastic performances followed by relatively poor results, although he has some extraordinary merits, Vallejo is the only player in the World that has beated Deep Blue in a match, in an exhibition by IBM.
Aclaratory: Vallejo beated the program Deep Blue installed in a less powerful parallel machine than the supercomputer used against Kasparov. It does not demerit the fact, he was the only player who could do that in a match, before IBM retired the program. In this days, the last version of FRITZ is almost unbeatible when installed in a very powerful machine.
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