Can't believe Kramnik has allowed 6Nh4 line again, though would go for a semi-slav. Should be better prepared this time though...

Keano wrote on 10/10/06 at 08:06:55:


With another accusation. Or at the minimum, with another interview that boasts a public relations IQ of 70. That would be fun.

Any other come back would be disastrous to the beleaguered chess world.

Another point of interest would be, whether Topalov is going to feel like crying during the game, thinking of his missed chances, as he has done during game 4 (or is it 3) and then went on to open the toilet. 
Lol.

@Keano - It's too good to pass it up. Nothing personal. I'm sorry, if you felt offended. That's not my intention.

Yes, 24...f6 lost.  Yes, at the World Championship level it's a blunder.  But for all these people with their computers running at full speed, I wonder how many would have been able to punish Topalov for his mistake.  Ok, so in this case, most GMs spotted the mistake fairly quickly.  Although I would have played differently than Kramnik did at several points (and thereby given Topalov more chances than Kramnik did), I think I might have been able to win.  But the more likely outcome would have been that I would use up too much of my time, and accepting a draw in a winning position around move 35.

Congrats to Kramnik, and I hope his Lazarus act will carry through so that he wins in regulation!

Cheers.

"Politically correct". A common right-wing abbreviation here. I didn't mean to get at Anand at all, rather a mild jibe at the (to my reactionary mind) absurd term 'differently abled' to describe, I take it, those people we used to call 'disabled'.

His wife? Really - I always thought she was very retiring.

How does Indian nomenclature work btw? I know Viswanathan is Anand's family name and Anand his given name, so that his brothers (if he was any) are called Viswanathan something rather than something Anand. How does it work with wives?

Quote from this interwview:

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- So far there have been numerous battles outside the chess board. What will be the main thing from now on? 

- I believe that my manager Silvio Danailov did an extraordinary job and won all the legal battles outside the board quite convincingly, and in the enemy field, too. Now it is my turn to do the same on the chess board.

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Seems Toplav is broud on that... 

Before the most chess player were big fans of Topalv (including myself). Whit this "outside the board battles" He lost a lot of symathie. He thinks its about being on his side or on Kramniks side. What he not understand is the poularity of Kramnik hasnt grown, but his dramaticly went down. This is not about beeing on ones side, or have a certain nationality. It just abuot unsportive behaviour. Chess is not football. And besides, even in football the fans dont like if you provoke in nasty ways.

FRom the official site also I found this interesting alternative at move 19 for Black:

It is late for Black to care about even amount of pawns at the board. However, obtaining decent compensation is realistic. For instance, interesting is 19...Nxe5 20.dxe5 d4 21.Be3 (21.Nxb5? Qd5 22.Nxd4 Bb7 23.f3 Bc5) 21...dxe3 22.Rxd8 exf2+ 23.Qxf2 Bxd8, and the bishop pair combined with White’s weakened king give Black good counterchances.

John - I like this idea for Black which is why I am trying to make something work - the game wasnt so bad, but given the forcing nature of Kramniks continuation I suspect Black has better earlier on. Will be interesting to see if this line is repeated much...

Castlerock – thanks for that link: “the differently abled”, love it. Didn’t realise PC had reached India.

Good to see the big boys coming out instead of the usual CMA silence, although I don’t like seeing him linking his comments to puffing Mexico City. The only thing I’ve ever had against Anand was his comment that he wished chessfans ‘would get rid of this stupid idea about the world championship dating back to Steinitz and so on’. I like to see a bit more sense of history, and for that matter more respect for the hand that ultimately feeds him, although one can understand his exasperation. I think Anand took against world championship matches when he had to put up with Kasparov’s bad behaviour in New York 95, and I don’t suppose either the 1997 Karpov episode, nor the Kasparov offer withdrawn in 2000, exactly thrilled him either.

Thanks for the info about Anand in India awhile back as well. I remember him saying in 92(?) after his candidates match with Dreev, that he wasn’t sure it had helped him playing in Madras (?again), because the adulation hadn’t helped him get away from it and prepare and focus. But of course it’s different during a match, perhaps, and maybe that match was played in his actual home city.

I found Inarkiev’s view after the first two games interesting; words to the effect of, “Of course the knockout system is better for ordinary grandmasters like me. But watching these games you can see that the world championship should be settled in a match. People talk about blunders, but I can assure you that they are playing fantastic chess.”. I suppose now we have 20,000 punters sitting at home following with Fritz we’re bound to think they’re not playing so well, especially since after every move it’s either ‘oh my God Rybka said Be3 +.47 how can he blunder like this’, or else “Aha Qd1 is Fritz move, yes?”. I don’t suppose the K-K matches would have looked so clever under the same scrutiny either (and let’s face it Kramnik-Kasparov in 2000 was piss-poor, with Gazza losing two games like a child and lucky not to lose at least one more while never getting any kind of blow in himself).