One thing I dont get at the chessbomb chat there are some many anti Anand comments on every single move.
I wish it was possible to remove the chat field.  I realy hopes Anand wins the match shut them down.

Maybee I should look for a better site to follow the match. 
While I dont follow every move live since I focused at my work as programmer, I watch the development every half hour.

I agree with the general consensus that this win was handed to Anand on a silver platter; any reasonably string player could have brought in the full point after the mess Carlson got himself into.  From that point of view this doesn't change my mind about the relative strengths of the two players, but it does call into question Carlsen's opening preparation and perhaps overall match preparation.   

In my opinion this is the only way Anand will win a game, however; ifthe players get equal positions where they both have to "just play" on their own, I don't see Anand being a threat.   

We'll see how it plays out, though.

Good grief, that was absolutely appalling by Carlsen. fxe4 is already a well-known improvement over Aronian-Adams, Bilbao 2013, and why on earth is he playing this sort of line if he isn't properly prepared? Anand's only chance in this match was to catch Carlsen in some computer preparation, and in game-management terms to give him the chance at all was just dreadful, and then to - presumably - totally forget your prep as well.....

Let's not kid ourselves, this was worse than Saric-Carlsen. Any 2500 GM could have won this game with White given what Carlsen chose to do.

Whether it gives Vishy any chance remains to be seen - Carlsen's usually fearsome after a loss and tomorrow's going to be a very interesting game. But on the other hand Carlsen's lost rather too many terrible games recently, sometimes more than one per event. It's harder to stay there than to get there, as they always say. If Carlsen's really just winging it totally in terms of preparation, this match could yet be very interesting.

Still, credit for his line in the press conference when asked whether this loss could be put down to his seconds, 'if anything goes wrong, it's my fault'. Quite right, too, though I wonder what Svidler had to say on commentary after the Brissago episode.

On that last theme, by the way, how come Nielsen's helping Carlsen in this match? Doesn't seem obviously very ethical to me after helping Vishy in the past. I know he didn't help Carlsen last time - is there some agreement between the parties that he can do so now, or what?

ErictheRed wrote on 11/09/14 at 21:40:19:



oops, sorry. 

This was pretty obviously the only way Anand was going to win a game by getting a big advantage from some computer prep. maybe Carlsen got too cocky here, certainly Carlson has lost games this year to worse players than Anand so maybe this match is not as dead as I thought and shows the "Wisdom of the crowd" in predicting just a 2 point win for the Norwegian.

Is this really the first time since 2010 that Anand has beaten Carlsen in a classical time control? 

Regarding Carlsen's blunders at the end, he's been in time pressure before, but rarely blunders a full piece like that even serious time pressure. It makes me wonder if he's put himself under too much pressure this time.

Yes, pressure must be unbelievable for these two (+ their teams)..

Well, opening preparation does not have necessarily to hand you the game on a silver plate.

Anand won the battle of the clocks + put some pressure early on => then Carlsen may have cracked or not. But irrespective of the result, opening preparation proved successful imo.

edit: sorry, Pale Horse got me first (I was responding to Martin).