M Jagadish
Grischuk is now firmly in the top ten of the World's elite Chess players. Well, at least on the live chess rankings list.
Having started his comeback at the FIDE Grand Prix at Elista a couple of years back and following it up with the famous win at Linares, Grischuk is now set to scale unknown (to him) heights of 2750+ (2758 to be exact at the present moment)
Showing promise even as a teenager, Grischuk rose to the top very early in his career. At the age of just 20, he was rated as high as 2732. And then began the slide. And then his foray into Poker.
Ernesto Grischuk is a famous Spanish Poker player! How weird is that! Now don't tell me the Poker Grischuk plays Chess. Well, let's not get into that.
Let's analyze Grischuk's rating graph from a stock market analyst's perspective. (Yes! since the rating chart also has a psychological element to it, it mirrors movement and can be analyzed like a stock in the stock markets!)
Grischuk experienced a huge breakout at 2600 (even before that, he was leaping of course). After a consolidation at around 2665 levels, he broke out of a range-bound movement to reach the psychological level of 2700.
Briefly moving up and testing the level again, he broke for good towards 2730 only to collapse towards the round figure yet again.
After another period of a triangle like formation, Grischuk broke out to the elite once again and into the 2750 zone, without going back to his favorite 2700 zone, this time consolidating just around 2730 or so.
Prediction
The Grischuk stock is highly volatile with a positive bias. It is expected to stay in the elite zone as long as it remains focused. A move towards the No. 1 position is tough considering the Tigers that lurk around 2800.
Grischuk is expected to remain one of the best blitz players.
