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Arnstein
Norway3381 Posts
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wingpawn
Poland1342 Posts
Game 1: Anand went there mad as hell from the get go, allowing his pawn structure to be cut into d5, f2, f4, h2 islands. His attack was going into a dead end but he managed to get rid of two weak pawns before that happened after which running back into passive defense was just enough to salvage a draw. Game 2: To be honest, I have no idea why GMs still play Ruy Lopez with Black. Almost all lines those days are basically 40+ moves of Black defending slightly worse positions and praying for a draw. Within just 20 moves, Carlsen basically flooded the Kingside with his pieces and being left with pretty useless Rooks, Vishy collapsed soon. Game 3: In Queen's Gambit, Vishy opened a trapdoor behind Carlsen's seat - a trapdoor labeled 'home preparation'. After just 14 moves of chess, Carlsen's butt (the c8-square) was already being bitten by a sharkpawnado. Immobilized like a Tank in a Siege Mode under Stasis Field, Magnus resigned with 0.7 second left on his clock (see: Fantasy's gg timing). | ||
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
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Orome
Switzerland11984 Posts
Black's enjoyed pretty good success with the Berlin in the past years (this is from the top of my head, idk what the statistics are exactly) and it's a perfect 'WC type' opening, extremely solid but with some bite to it if white gets ambitious. edit: Anyway, I'm ultimately cheering for Carlsen (and a Carlsen/Aronian or Carlsen/Caruana WC match soon), but I'm happy Anand managed to come back today. Brings back a lot of excitement to a WC match that looked to be going the same way as the last. | ||
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Mafe
Germany5966 Posts
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mishimaBeef
Canada2259 Posts
Anand probably purposely played the Ruy Lopez game 2 to feel out Carlsen. Then h5 was not a blunder but a psychological prep move. Why play out a lost position, gg and go to the next game. | ||
peanuts
United States1225 Posts
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
On November 12 2014 06:56 Mafe wrote: So apparently we wont have another world championship match for 2 years after this one? I guess thats how it was historically, still feels a little too long for me. I like it, otherwise we will never have a champion as great: Lasker 1894-1921 Capablanca 1921-1927 (but amazing for many years to come) Alekhine 1927-1946 (for all intensive purposes) Karpov 1975-1985 & Second best from 1985-1993 & champion 1933-1999 Kasparov 1985-2000 I suppose Anand was champion for quite some time, but when games are every year, it's very hard to get a good streak going. I prefer 2-3 years gaps, especially for a game like chess, it should move slowly imo. | ||
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sths
Australia192 Posts
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Orome
Switzerland11984 Posts
The real problem with the current system is the 12 game format. | ||
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
On November 12 2014 12:14 sths wrote: Sorry if this is a random question but has anyone here heard of the Polgar sisters? Apparently their father raised them to be chess champions and he wrote a book in hungarian called Bring Up Genius!. I'm not a chess person but I am interested in the process of how he achieved this. Has anyone read a copy of the book or know where to find one? I don't know about the book but all three sisters have been very successful chess players. Judit is by far the strongest and has for a long time stayed among the top ten//twenty and recently retired. Susan Polgar is also a pretty strong GM and the third sister is an IM if I recall correctly. So I'd say his experiment definitely worked out. | ||
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FiWiFaKi
Canada9859 Posts
On November 12 2014 12:17 Orome wrote: It's also a concern because preparation for a WC match takes (or is supposed to take, if we want to maintain WC match quality) several months. With a match every year, the WC is given very little time to participate in tournaments without already having the match in the back of his head. We saw it this year with Carlsen. The real problem with the current system is the 12 game format. What is wrong with the 12 game format? Most championship games have been 20+ games in the past, the the average length being roughly 25, and 30 not being all that infrequent (actually as much as 48 games in 1984). | ||
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mishimaBeef
Canada2259 Posts
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
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Elyvilon
United States13143 Posts
On November 12 2014 13:56 IgnE wrote: I say first to 11 wins or death. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1984 | ||
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JazVM
Germany1196 Posts
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marvellosity
United Kingdom36161 Posts
12 matches too short, preferably something like 24, but I'd take any increase on 12. On November 12 2014 20:10 JazVM wrote: What are your predictions for today? I think Carlsen will be shaken and decides to go for a quick draw. I think the opposite, I think Carlsen will be itching to make something happen today. | ||
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xM(Z
Romania5296 Posts
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Kabras
Romania3508 Posts
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Cixah
United States11285 Posts
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