Why are you rooting for Anand ?

a). I like his universal style. He is good at both positional and tactical chess. Aronian describes him as a strategic player.

b). Because of my nationality. I am an Indian (Spanish or from Philippines, other countries related to Vishy )

c). I would pay a million chessbucks to watch Danailov humiliated and embarrassed.

d). Vishy is soft spoken and non-confrontational and chess world doesn't want any more controversies.

but i meet mostly field workers. research and lab environments may be different.

Here's the mold. It's not so much a question of your brain's processing power, as it is of your willingness to stake it all on a toss of the coin. Women are extremely unwilling to do the latter. It's as the joke has it: "Men fall in love in a flash, women take their time. Women know in a flash when it's over, men refuse to believe it can be so."

The term manager is a misnomer. Most companies don't want managers, they want gamblers who have figured out a way to game the house. Yes, women are better managers in the sense that they see the task as one of keeping things together, while securing incremental improvements in the position. Men at times don't mind going all-in, hoping for a spectacular pay-off.

Our willingness to forget failures let men get away with this, and we therefore believe they are better than women, because of the spectacular outcomes we do remember. But for every Amundsen on the South Pole the ice is littered with frozen failures, and women waited with making the attempt until there were radios. They're not dumb. Not even foolhardy. They're smarter, they intend to outlive men and probably make men unnecessary. If that's not intelligent, what is?

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Responding to the choices in your poll (which i think is a good idea) I root for Anand

1. because of his long history of high level chess, from junior years, to his high profile match with Kasparov in the WTC, up to today. A fine ambassador of the game.

2. I root against Topalov, because he bears responsibility for the actions of his 'handlers' and, to a lesser degree, chess functionaries in Bulgaria. There was the business with Toiletgate in Elista. Danailov is suing FIDE because of Anands 1 day delay proposal being granted--anything that will provide a distraction, whether immoral or immature is fair game.

Also, Topalov has said some stupid things. Making a public statement that Anand made no attempt to get sponsorship in India "...or the match prize could have been double..." There is this recent business of "no talking between the players." Or the 'Sofia rules' challange. Topalov must feel inadequate, he is attempting anything to throw an affable fellow like Anand off kilter.

It's just that the match being in Bulgaria puts a pallor over the whole thing. Anand's group must be feeling the old Bruce Lee motto: "EXPECT--the unexpected." This would have such a better vibe if the match were held somewhere else.