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| Aug-11-12 | | PinnedPiece: What kind of champion, or one who wants to be thought of as champion material, would say "I need many many chances to prove I am the best. And if I am not proved the best, then I wasn't given enough chances." It's up to the chess world to ensure the funding and fairness of the matches...it seems to me that a decent contender can't be expected to do so. I would redo the entire nature of the championship cycle, myself, with the current "champion" but one of the participants from the outset. . |
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| Aug-11-12 | | csmath: The format is the way it is because there is no money for anything better. The championship match was the way it was because there were no better players to play it. |
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| Aug-11-12 | | Kinghunt: <csmath> There is money for more. Aren't FIDE/Agon about to stage a huge Grand Prix circuit? Turn two of those events into Candidates Quarterfinals and Semifinals, then change the 14 round Candidates we already have into a final match, and you're done. There is money for a better Championship system - it just has to be used where it matters instead of on an extravagant Grand Prix. |
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| Aug-26-12 | | shivamshukl280: hye will anyone play a game |
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| Sep-12-12 | | Ulhumbrus: Anand said that people had underrated Gelfand and that Anand had played as strongly as Kasparov had played at the London match in 2000. Gelfand still drew the match and came close to winning it which means that Gelfand also played as strongly as Kasparov had played at the London match in 2000. |
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| Jan-01-13 | | tabul008: You can't choose challenger by just fide rating! |
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| Jan-11-13 | | morfishine: Based on the assessments and opinions. its safe to say that clearly, Anand is no longer the player that he is... |
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| Jan-11-13 | | voyager39: @morfishine Different situations require different character. Anand remains on the throne and we wait for a challenger to emerge. Hopefully it will be one of the youngsters so that the next generation can gain legitimacy and find its place in history. |
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Jan-11-13
 | | HeMateMe: Some would say that the younger generation has plenty of legitamacy. It's just that great players are hard to beat in matches, even when they are in their 40s. |
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| Jan-11-13 | | morfishine: <voyager39> I appreciate the reply; I have the utmost respect for Anand. My comment was sarcastic, interjecting the words 'he is' instead of the normal 'once was'... With that said, I think the 12-game format is too short and short-changes the chess viewing audience; the 24-game format allows for much more flexibility in openings. If nothing else, for that much money, the chess community deserves more games. |
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| May-17-15 | | TheFocus: <I am pleased that in a match for the World Championship I was able to conduct a game in the style of Akiba Rubinstein, where the entire strategic course was maintained from the first to the last move> - Boris Gelfand (on game 7). |
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Apr-10-16
 | | offramp: I remember this match as a huge disappointment to me. I liked both players, they are both really nice guys. And this was the first WC match since Alekhine - Bogoljubov World Championship Rematch (1934) where both players were over 40. How did that happen in the 21st Century?? Because I am British I have always likes that mental bacon-cruncher Anand. But I am also very pro-Israel (I'm a Freemason), and Gelfand is a superb player, so I wasn't worried about who won. But when the match started I was very disappointed. Games went to theory, then a few moves after theory, then draws were agreed. I was very upset with Gelfand. Not with Anand.
I was upset with Gelfand because HE should have been taking every game to its limit, as Spassky said he would do and did in Petrosian - Spassky World Championship Rematch (1969). If you count the moves that happened AFTER known theoretical positions had been reached then this whole match lasted about 10 moves. I was so disappointed. |
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| May-21-16 | | Chessinfinite: I was happy Anand won, would have been happier had Anand beaten Gelfand in the classical part, just like he did in his previous two matches. I am happy this match did not take place in London or NY where someone like the British would have liked their man Gelfand to win, but in Moscow where Anand likes it better. Good match , but could have been better. |
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Jun-22-17
 | | GM Igor Smirnov: Wow, there is a lot to learn from these games! Watch the three-part video lesson "Gems from Anand-Gelfand Match" at http://chess-teacher.com/affiliates... |
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Aug-24-17
 | | perfidious: <Pawn Dillinger: Nadark: I'm grateful someone else sees the big picture. I used to cover boxing. These people remind me of the squids in the crowd calling some guy a bum. At least he had the talent to step in the ring and give it his best and didn't need to sit in the dark and yell like a coward. Anand and Gelfand have one mission, and entertaining whiners and their silicon buddies isn't it....> Another day, another clown languishing in obscurity and abject misery who gets his moment in the sun. Happens every day here at <cg>. |
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| Aug-24-17 | | Petrosianic: <offramp>: <I was very upset with Gelfand. Not with Anand.> Other way around for me. Anand was the stronger player. If a stronger player is willing to give Gelfand easy draws, of course he'll take them. Also, Anand is a double-offender. Of the two shortest matches in history (in terms of Moves Per Game), Anand was involved in both of them. In the end Gelfand's reputation was improved, as he joined the ranks of Schlechter, Bronstein and others as people who drew a match with the world champion, while Anand's reputation suffered slightly. He didn't look nearly as good in this match as he did against Kramnik and Topalov. In fact, Gelfand's reputation was improved so much that we gave him the nickname "Mr. Mitzvah", after a Jewish-themed superhero on Stan Lee's "Who Wants To Be a Superhero?". |
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Aug-24-17
| | offramp: <Petrosianic: <offramp>: <I was very upset with Gelfand. Not with Anand.> <Other way around for me. Anand was the stronger player.> In this crazy old century that we call the 21st, I think that any player who reaches a World Championship Match should be considered very close in strength to the Holder, regardless of the actual Elo ratings themselves. <If a stronger player is willing to give Gelfand easy draws, of course he'll take them.> But <surely> Gelfand must have known that this was going to be his ONE and ONLY chance to win the title. Did he think he would win through the next Candidates'? LOL. No way.
Why play 15 moves of theory, then another 5-10 careful moves and then immediately shake hands, before any real play has taken place. Gelfand must have been very badly advised by someone. <Also, Anand is a double-offender. Of the two shortest matches in history (in terms of Moves Per Game), Anand was involved in both of them.> Correct. And in all his world championship matches, from 1995 to 2014, the great Indian won 8 games in normal time. Think about that... <8> games. So is that not an incentive to try to WIN a few against him? Two wins should beat Anand. <In the end Gelfand's reputation was improved, as he joined the ranks of Schlechter, Bronstein and others as people who drew a match with the world champion,> A strange, argillaceous type of successful drawn match. In the photos I looked at, Anand looked like the winner. <...while Anand's reputation suffered slightly.> Agreed, slightly. Possibly not at all. <He didn't look nearly as good in this match as he did against Kramnik and Topalov.> But he still won!
<In fact, Gelfand's reputation was improved so much that we gave him the nickname "Mr. Mitzvah", after a Jewish-themed superhero on Stan Lee's "Who Wants To Be a Superhero?".> Israeli men, Hallelujah! Israeli men, amen!
Perhaps the Israelis have a similar Umwelt to the British, where gallant failure is taken as some kind of success. |
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| Aug-24-17 | | Petrosianic: <offramp>: <In this crazy old century that we call the 21st, I think that any player who reaches a World Championship Match should be considered very close in strength to the Holder, regardless of the actual Elo ratings themselves.> Close, yes. But I thought and still think that Anand was noticeably superior, but failed to show it. <But <surely> Gelfand must have known that this was going to be his ONE and ONLY chance to win the title. Did he think he would win through the next Candidates'? LOL. No way.> You're probably right there. At a guess, I'd say he felt that he had a better chance in the Playoff. It was only 4 games, and Rapid, where anything can happen. But I'm wrong to just say I blame Anand. I also blame the rules. Under the Old Rules, where the champion had Draw Odds, one player or the other was ALWAYS losing, with time running out. At least one player always needed a win. In this match, nobody neeeded a win so both were content to mostly skip the match and go to the playoff. <A strange, argillaceous type of successful drawn match. In the photos I looked at, Anand looked like the winner.> I never said differently. I said Anand's reputation suffered a bit. I never said he lost the match. Yes, he still won, as you say, but he took an unnecessary risk by not taking advantage of the 12 game match where he had more time to make his superiority felt. That works sometimes, but not always. It's one way that stronger players lose to weaker ones. <Perhaps the Israelis have a similar Umwelt to the British, where gallant failure is taken as some kind of success.> Gelfand's great success was winning the candidates and getting there at all. Nobody expected him to, and he beat out stronger players to do it. Sorry, I may have been unclear. We gave him the Mr. Mitzvah name after the Candidates, not after the championship. We gave Anand the nickname Two Sheds (long before this match) but I'll let others try to figure out why. Suffice to say that he'd probably love it if he knew. |
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| Aug-24-17 | | Nerwal: <Under the Old Rules, where the champion had Draw Odds, one player or the other was ALWAYS losing, with time running out. At least one player always needed a win. In this match, nobody neeeded a win so both were content to mostly skip the match and go to the playoff.> Indeed, now that we have seen a few matches with the 12 games format and no draw odds for the champion, a flaw has started to appear : 3 matches saw one player thoroughly dominating, 4 matches were close. Of those last 4, 3 went into tie-breaks, the last one saw Topalov overpressing as White in the last game because he rated badly his chances in rapids. Overall that's almost a 50% rate of title decided by 4 rapid games, and whenever the match is close the players seem to decide it's best not to push too hard; in this regard modern opening preparation makes things even worse. |
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| Aug-25-17 | | Lambda: Having the tie-breaks at the start of the match to decide who gets draw odds would quite simply solve two huge problems and cause no new problems whatsoever. Why can't they just do it? |
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Aug-25-17
| | offramp: <Lambda: Having the tie-breaks at the start of the match to decide who gets draw odds would quite simply solve two huge problems and cause no new problems whatsoever. Why can't they just do it?> A similar idea was mooted in soccer, or, as Americans call it, Footbutnothand is usable to score a goalball. The idea was to have the Penalty shoot out FIRST, then play the match. |
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| Aug-26-17 | | Olavi: It would cause new problems. The psychological setup would be very different (than when the draw odds are automatically the champion's). It's not the same in soccer, chess being a draw. |
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| Aug-26-17 | | Olavi: Gheoghiu famously said that (in a tournament) three draws is better than two wins and one loss. There are many players like that, it wouldn't probably help to rationalize that it's only rapid games. Some others in turn would get extra motivation. One could argue that handling a loss is an important part of competing. Fair enough, but it's supposed to be classical chess. |
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| Dec-15-20 | | joddon: World championship matches are mostly games with drawish boring endings...no tactical openings...subtle middlegames with no positional complications....both players usually use all their time and are too nervous to blunder...not good to study chess errors with these type of games!! |
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Nov-18-21
 | | saffuna: Anand: <I won that match because I won. I didn’t do anything to deserve the win, and apparently he didn’t do enough to not lose either.> |
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