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Posted by chessbaker chessbase.net 10/13/2008 04:00:24 Play online chess	Subject: WCC Message: Tomorrow the match between Anand and Kramnik starts for the world tittle. Seems that on GK nobody is busy with it.... or am I wrong? Say something about it; who do you think will win and why,prognoses and etc. I think Anand will win,but with only one point ahead.In my opinion Kramnik is not so good as Anand.Also physical he looks not so fit. As you see him I found he looks always very tired.But that's my opinion ,so common and let us know what yours is
Posted by heinzkat chessbase.net 10/13/2008 07:48:26 Play online chess	Message: "Seems that on GK nobody is busy with it... or am I wrong?" There is not so much "chess talking" in the forums here, which does not mean there is no interest in chess ...! Of course we will follow the match. Here is a link: www.uep-chess.com
Posted by ketchuplover chessbase.net 10/13/2008 11:32:59 Play online chess	Message: I'm picking Kramnik to win. Just a gut feeling. I'm downloading the foidos thing now. Hopefully I'll be able to watch it live FOR FREE! I'm not paying for it!! Being that I'm on dial-up I'm cautiosly optimistic. ——— King Tut in Chess Puzzles — King Tutankhamun, or simply King Tut, is the most famous Egyptian pharaoh. He was called the boy-king since he was only nine-years-old when his 10-year reign began in 1,333 B.C. He died at the age of 19 and his tomb, undisturbed for 3,245 years, was well-preserved when it was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter. King Tut's golden burial mask became the symbol of ancient Egypt. But how did he make it into chess? Protecting a king is vital in every chess game and pawns are best suited to do the job. When the pawns surround the king in chess problems and studies, we see some beautiful and astonishing creations. Entombing the king became a popular theme among chess composers ...
Posted by chessbaker chessbase.net 10/13/2008 12:09:24 Play online chess	wcc Message: I can not open that foidos thing.I try it from yesterday morning without success ——— Iranian Claims Chess Record — To the intense rivalry between Israel and Iran add another facet: the game of chess. In a literal game of one-upmanship, an Iranian chess grandmaster played 614 people simultaneously on Tuesday and Wednesday at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran in an attempt to break a world record set by an Israeli chess grandmaster last October. According to a report in Agence France-Presse, the Iranian, Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, 28, won 590 games, lost 8 and drew 16 in an exhibition that took 25 hours. The Israeli grandmaster, Alik Gershon, 30, played 523 games over 19 hours, beating 454, losing 11 and drawing 58. Mr. Gershon broke the previous record set by ...
Posted by heinzkat chessbase.net 10/13/2008 14:37:58 Play online chess	If I understand correctly... Message: They want you to pay some 90 euros for the software (and you can just follow the WCC then): www.foidoschess.tv ——— World’s Top Chess Players on Hand for Aeroflot Open — The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, which ended last week, is a popular chess tournament, attracting many strong players. And the World Open, which is held every year in the Philadelphia area around Independence Day, usually has more than 1,000 chess players between all its sections. But for sheer quality of competition, the annual Aeroflot Open, which starts on Tuesday, trumps them all. Sponsored by the Russian airline, the chess tournament is divided in three sections. The A group usually features many of the world’s top chess players, and this year is no different. Twenty-six of the world’s top 100 players are competing, and 73 of the 87 players in the top section are ...
Posted by heinzkat chessbase.net 10/13/2008 15:21:43 Play online chess	... Message: Tip: try ChessVibes. So far it has always delivered pretty good covering of events (games, analysis, videos, interviews...); I'm sure in Bonn the coverage will excel again: www.chessvibes.com (for example, a video of the opening press conference is available there, and all for free) ——— Chess: The calculations of Vishy Anand — The Indian grandmaster is back on top of the world – and matches such as this demonstrate why. Over the next few weeks we are going to be looking at games by the world chess champion Vishy Anand. He recently regained the no 1 spot on the rating list, so this seems a fitting moment to feature his play. His depth and speed of calculation marked him out as a special talent in his youth, and he has lost none of that sharpness in his maturity. RB: What is the white knight doing on g5? This was the first thing to strike me when Dan sent me this position. Has it just captured a piece? Has it been trapped? Has there been a whole series of ...
Posted by ketchuplover chessbase.net 10/13/2008 16:13:29 Play online chess	Message: chess.ca ——— A Victory to Remember for a Young American — Until a week ago, the short list of the greatest American tournament victories was limited to Hastings in 1895, Cambridge Springs in 1904, AVRO in 1938 and Palma de Mallorca in 1970. This year’s Tata Steel tournament in the Netherlands is now on that list. When it was over, Hikaru Nakamura had finished ahead of the top four chess players in the world, including the world chess champion, Viswanathan Anand. Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion, said it was the most impressive victory by an American since 1895, when Harry Nelson Pillsbury, who was 22 and virtually unknown, finished first at the tournament in Hastings, England, in a field that included Emanuel Lasker, ...
Posted by pgroenborg chessbase.net 10/14/2008 05:53:40 Play online chess	Not my hero Message: I'm with Anand all the way, but Kramnik is very, very solid, like a rock. Remember Kramnik was the one to overthrow Kasparovs 15 years reign - and I was hoping for Kasparov at the time. I am not a fan of Kramniks style, Anand plays a more lively game I think. However they have battled in more than a hundred games, the score is more than 90 draws and 19 victories for Anand and 15 for Kramnik, so it is going to be very tight, we should be lucky to get more than 2 or 3 decisive games in the match I think, it is only 12 games, a short match. I really excited about it, although I fear the cold Russian will beat the warm Indian. Cheers and have fun Peter ps spellchecking of above is funny, it doesn't recognise the players mentioned, lol
Posted by blake78613 chessbase.net 10/14/2008 08:23:26 Play online chess	Message: Anand is certainly a talented player. I am not certain that he has the temperament for match play. Psychologically, I give Kramnik an edge.
Posted by ketchuplover chessbase.net 10/14/2008 09:54:29 Play online chess	Message: First game drawn in 32. Semi Slav exchange. Kramnik had white.
Posted by lighttotheright chessbase.net 10/14/2008 11:39:32 Play online chess	Well!!! Message: That was a rather simple game. I expected something a little more complicated for a World Championship game. There wasn't a whole lot of risk taken on either side. Given that these guys have played as much as has been stated earlier, I would not expect them to need to feel each other out that much. But that was the sense I got from just observing the moves only. They seemed to be testing what each other might do.
Posted by ccmcacollister chessbase.net 10/14/2008 12:20:14 Play online chess	Light, then I would suspect .... Message: That if the players are starting slow, they are seeking to see what can be gained on their own talents and saving the TN's and Improvements for a more critical point. Which will also give the other side less time to switch openings and study something like that. I havent actually seen the game yet. Maybe too to get comfortable with the venue and cast of characters involved. Maybe they just dont have much new ... cough, choke. Yeah, the Russian #1 and th\\Champ with most the rest of the world behind him ... I also suspect they will have a few things in store to dazzle us. ( Got to admit it, even seen a senior ccm make even a Petroff dazzle once. Ah gosh that was HARD ...oh, and of course it did Draw :))
Posted by pgroenborg chessbase.net 10/14/2008 12:55:00 Play online chess	Numbers Message: I read about that high number of games between them somewhere on the net, can't recall the source right now, think it was Chess Vibes, but not sure. Other bloggers use different source? i.e. wikipedia has this to say: Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik have played 51 classical chess games, of which Kramnik won six, Anand took four wins, and 41 games were drawn. In rapid games, the score is 10–2 in favour of Anand with 34 draws. In blitz the score is 2–2 with four draws. In the blindfold games the score is 4–3 in favour of Kramnik with six draws. In Advanced Chess Kramnik leads 1–0 with seven draws.
Posted by ketchuplover chessbase.net 10/15/2008 10:31:51 Play online chess	Message: Game two drawn. More lively than game one imo. I think Kramnik should've tried Rd2 on move 31
Posted by lighttotheright chessbase.net 10/16/2008 10:28:24 Play online chess	Message: If 31, ,,, Rd2 then 32. Bb3. Kramnik didn't have an effective attack here.
Posted by lighttotheright chessbase.net 10/16/2008 10:52:11 Play online chess	Message: I was trying to think of something else Annand could have tried instead of the queen swap on move 19. If 19. Be7 Rde8 20. Bg5 Qc5 21, h3 h6, Black looks OK and White would probably have to look for a drawn position anyway.
Posted by ccmcacollister chessbase.net 10/17/2008 16:30:23 Play online chess	already ... Message: A win for Anand. That's a pretty quick score on K.
Posted by lighttotheright chessbase.net 10/17/2008 22:26:56 Play online chess	Message: Now that was a good and exciting game! That's the kind that we expect from a World Champion.
Posted by vulpecula chessbase.net 10/20/2008 09:05:24 Play online chess	Another win for Vishy Message: Can anyone see Kramnik recovering from this ?? Regards, Guy
Posted by ketchuplover chessbase.net 10/20/2008 09:29:25 Play online chess	Message: Stick a fork in Kramnik. He's done.
Posted by ogedei chessbase.net 10/20/2008 11:37:46 Play online chess	oy Message: Just when Kramnik has two Blacks in a row, too... Time to come out swinging with Black for the first time in years, Vlad. Good luck with that!
Posted by cairo chessbase.net 10/20/2008 13:56:42 Play online chess	It Message: certainly look rather overwhelming for Kramnik and I personally hope that Anand goes all the way, but don't count Kramnik out yet, he is known as a gritty competitor when it looks worse...... best wishes Cairo
Posted by ogedei chessbase.net 10/21/2008 11:41:31 Play online chess	Game 6 Message: Wow. It seems that Anand is working to to prove the old (and heretofore discredited) adage that, "great players never castle!" It's a great match, but let's hope Vlad can find his form quickly so that we have some competitive games. It's tough to watch won of your chess heroes going down in flames...
Posted by ccmcacollister chessbase.net 10/21/2008 12:32:32 Play online chess	ouch~! Message: Says Anand to Kramnick? www.youtube.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqeSUAlI5uI&feature=PlayList&p=03E110C6C3A1931B&index=2&playnext=3&playnext_from=PL
Posted by ccmcacollister chessbase.net 10/21/2008 12:43:58 Play online chess	btw ... Message: 1.I know Anand is just too polite to actually Say It ... 2. Thats an extended play you have never heard, I bet.
Posted by ketchuplover chessbase.net 10/27/2008 16:39:43 Play online chess	Message: kramnik wins game 10. Anand leads 6-4. Play resumes Wednesday.