Seriously, this is an historic performance; apparently they've now calculated his current TPR (tournament performance rating) around 3150. Caruana has already won the competition on +7 score with two rounds to go. At the start of the tournament the average rating of the field was 2801; Caruana has now taken his live rating to 2836, the third highest of all time and putting him in second place to Carlsen.
Of what I've watched last nights game against Carlsen was astonishing, and their earlier encounter was great viewing too, as Sue says, this is probably the most professional chess coverage ever, really good.
If you don't watch anything else, I'd recommend the interview with Carlsen after round 7, it isn't very long and it get's really funny at about 2'45" , had me laughing out loud :-)
Cheers, Kevin.
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