MARK RUBERY CHESS

At the London Chess Classic some years ago the organisers had the wonderful idea of making a video where the participants take turns describing their fellow competitors in one word. This is an interesting exercise in seeing what the best players in the world think of their peers-although not all the players, and in particular Alexander Grischuk, felt constrained by the limits of the exercise… Veselin Topalov

Carlsen: Resurgence

Nakamura: Aggressive

Vachier- Lagrave: Aggressive

Hikaru Nakamura

Carlsen: Decent Aronian: Aggressive Giri: Bullet Caruana: Unpredictable Topalov: Weird

Levon Aronian Carlsen: Creative Vachier-Lagrave: Tricky Caruana: Prepared Grischuk: Tricky

Magnus Carlsen Anish Giri Vachier-Lagrave: Too talented

Aronian: Class

Giri: World Champion Vishy Anand

Carlsen: Solid Vachier-Lagrave: Cocky! Topalov: Future contender

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Carlsen: Legend Aronian: Wisdom Caruana: Solid Topalov: Legend

Fabiano Caruana Carlsen: Inspired Aronian: Talent

Giri: Quick Caruana: Blitzer Topalov: French Alexander Grischuk Carlsen: Machine Vachier-Lagrave: Serious Topalov: Tough Grischuk: Academic Adams: Good all-round player

Michael Adams

Carlsen: Perfectionist Vachier-Lagrave: Unpredictable

Aronian: Artistic

WHITE TO PLAY AND WIN Carlsen: Grinder Vachier-Lagrave: British Aronian: Spider

Giri: Spider

Caruana: DangerousGrischuk: Never stands up during the game Giri: Exchange sacrifice Aronian: Original

Grischuk: Wild Anand: Sharp Adams: Tricky

Adams: Classical Anand: Witty Nakamura: Very solid positional master

Topalov: Star Adams: Strong Nakamura: Prodigy

Adams: Dangerous Anand: Young Nakamura: Talented positional player

Grischuk: Genius Adams: Difficult player Nakamura: Ageless

Grischuk: My good buddy Nakamura: French maestro

Anand: Very focused Nakamura: Master of preparation

Caruana: Time trouble Topalov: Blitz Nakamura: Blitz genius

Caruana: Solid Topalov: Elegant Nakamura: Technically sound