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Question: Who will win the Anand-Gelfand Title Match?


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Anand by 2 or more 36 (37.1%) Gelfand by 2 or more 1 (1.0%) Anand by 1 41 (42.3%) Gelfand by 1 9 (9.3%) Anand in a Tie-break 4 (4.1%) Gelfand in a Tie-break 5 (5.2%) The match will be cancelled. 1 (1.0%) Total votes: 97 « Last Modified by: Smyslov_Fan on: 05/08/12 at 15:52:16 »

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Vass God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 1105 Joined: 06/22/11	Re: Who will win the Anand-Gelfand World Championship? Reply #143 - 05/20/12 at 16:28:05	Post Tools	Print Post
	TN wrote on 05/20/12 at 16:20:35: None of the remaining games will be boring now. Expect fire on the board! We hope so!


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TN God Member Offline Posts: 3420 Joined: 11/07/08 Gender:	Re: Who will win the Anand-Gelfand World Championship? Reply #142 - 05/20/12 at 16:20:35	Post Tools	Print Post
	None of the remaining games will be boring now. Expect fire on the board!

	All our dreams come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
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bragesjo God Member Offline CCE at ICCF 2021 and CCM at ICCF 2023 Posts: 1839 Location: Eskilstuna Joined: 06/30/06 Gender:	Re: Who will win the Anand-Gelfand World Championship? Reply #141 - 05/20/12 at 14:35:12	Post Tools	Print Post
	Anand has blundered, now Gelfand has winning chances, maybee we will have Gelfands first win over Anand since 1993! EDIT Gelfand won! Good for the match since Anand now needs to switch towards his true style!


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bragesjo God Member Offline CCE at ICCF 2021 and CCM at ICCF 2023 Posts: 1839 Location: Eskilstuna Joined: 06/30/06 Gender:	Re: Who will win the Anand-Gelfand World Championship? Reply #140 - 05/20/12 at 13:18:08	Post Tools	Print Post
	I liked todays commentary by GM Arkadij Naiditsch. "Gelfand continues his match strategy: no chances for me and no chances for you games" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- We should change the poll to add "No one wins."


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ghenghisclown God Member Offline Pedicare Vestri Latin Posts: 1022 Location: HollyWeird Joined: 07/19/06 Gender:	Re: Who will win the Anand-Gelfand World Championship? Reply #139 - 05/19/12 at 08:54:08	Post Tools	Print Post
	You're right. I guess the match hasn't really started yet! lulz...

	"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."
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Willempie God Member Offline I love ChessPublishing .com! Posts: 4312 Location: Holland Joined: 01/07/05	Re: Who will win the Anand-Gelfand World Championship? Reply #138 - 05/19/12 at 08:48:30	Post Tools	Print Post
	ghenghisclown wrote on 05/18/12 at 08:06:29: Which one of you said the match would be cancelled? LOL I did. Is the match started then?

	If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.
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Gilchrist is a legend God Member Offline Posts: 1039 Location: Manchester, UK Joined: 03/02/10	Re: Who will win the Anand-Gelfand World Championship? Reply #137 - 05/19/12 at 00:06:02	Post Tools	Print Post
	I think that Gelfand played the Sveshnikov is an indication that he is trying to win. But the game is quite difficult to win with 11. c4, especially in the line with opposite-coloured bishops.

	Creo lo que creo no importa lo que creen los demás.
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belgian Full Member Offline Passionate about chess and poker... Posts: 129 Location: Toronto Joined: 05/14/07 Gender:	Re: Who will win the Anand-Gelfand World Championship? Reply #136 - 05/18/12 at 23:14:39	Post Tools	Print Post
	Keano wrote on 05/18/12 at 08:11:05: He can keep trying to crack it or else come from another angle with 1.Nf3 or 1.c4 but I suspect he'll stick with 1.d4 I agree. I double that angle shooting with c4 or Nf3 really works against the triangle setup with d5, c6 and e6. Perhaps Gelfand will also play 1.e4 as Anand, Kramnik and Aronion have done in matches.


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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: Who will win the Anand-Gelfand World Championship? Reply #135 - 05/18/12 at 21:45:05	Post Tools	Print Post
	Less than 1/10th of the people voting thought the match would end in a tie of any sort before the start of the event. To me, this shows a nice lack of cynicism on the part of the Chess Publicans. While the odds of a tie have definitely skyrocketed, I imagine the majority will still expect a decisive result in the next six games.


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ANDREW BRETT God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 622 Joined: 07/07/06	Re: Who will win the Anand-Gelfand World Championship? Reply #134 - 05/18/12 at 20:49:07	Post Tools	Print Post
	I wonder what Gelfand's next trick is as he's got another white ! I've felt for a while that Bg5 is the critical move against the semi slav. This e3 stuff is pretty level. I doubt if Vishy has left preparation for his 3 easy black draws. Only 6 games to go - what odds 12 draws or will someone go for it !!


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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: Who will win the Anand-Gelfand World Championship? Reply #133 - 05/18/12 at 19:25:21	Post Tools	Print Post
	I'm enjoying the US Championship. And yeah, of course 6 games a day is more entertaining than one game a day. But in the end, I would rather watch Bayern Munich and Chelsea play to a scoreless draw and have to go to penalty-kicks shoot out than watch the LA Galaxy and New England Revolution have a 7 goal score-fest. Matters of taste are beyond dispute. (No need to quote the Latin. The common language today is English.)


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Keano God Member Offline Money doesn't talk, it swears. Posts: 2928 Location: Toulouse Joined: 05/25/05 Gender:	Re: Who will win the Anand-Gelfand World Championship? Reply #132 - 05/18/12 at 14:38:29	Post Tools	Print Post
	Seth_Xoma wrote on 05/18/12 at 01:07:28: Never before has a World Championship match not had my full attention. The US championships have been much more interesting and, more importantly for me anyway, more instructive. Stripunsky - Onischuk was particularly instructive, what is going on? Do they have a free bar in the tournament hall?


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Katalyst Full Member Offline Posts: 128 Joined: 10/01/07	Re: Who will win the Anand-Gelfand World Championship? Reply #131 - 05/18/12 at 14:00:13	Post Tools	Print Post
	hahaha, nice one Boris Interviewer: "What do you say in reply to Kasparov's comment that this is the first WCh that is not between the strongest two players in the world?" Gelfand: "I think he wanted to remind everyone that he was the best in the world, in case anyone had forgotten"


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Katalyst Full Member Offline Posts: 128 Joined: 10/01/07	Re: Who will win the Anand-Gelfand World Championship? Reply #130 - 05/18/12 at 13:40:11	Post Tools	Print Post
	Draw agreed, although the players were unable to avoid one or two points of interest in this game.


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MartinC God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 2115 Joined: 07/24/06	Re: Who will win the Anand-Gelfand World Championship? Reply #129 - 05/18/12 at 13:23:22	Post Tools	Print Post
	Its does seem like the sort of position that Gelfand is after. Imagine he's decided its his best chance of beating Anand and he's no doubt thought about it in some detail so it'd be rather presumptious to question him too strongly Anand did of course win with black against both Kramnik and Topalov so real aggression far from risk free.


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