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| May-21-12 | | goodevans: First time Gelfand has deviated from being utterly solid and he gets punished for it. Guess he won't try that again in a hurry. The big question for me is how Anand will react to equalising the scores. |
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May-21-12
 | | Marmot PFL: What is the lesson today? That psychology is almost as important as chess skill, or that once away from their elaborate preparations even top players are vulnerable to mistakes. |
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| May-21-12 | | offramp: Could someone post a diagram? I'm on a phone... |
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| May-21-12 | | Atalante: One of the worst blunders ever in a World Championship and with plenty of time on the clock. |
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| May-21-12 | | eyalbd: Amazing Vision by Anand. He says he saw 17. f2! when he played 11.exf5 Both Leko and Nepo (and of course Gelfand) overlooked that possibility. |
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| May-21-12 | | badest: <acirce: A field day for the Gelfand bashers.> Well, not without reason though. I guess Gelfand is human after all. ;) ... and the feeling that Anand has so much more to give (after the first 6 games) was obviously not completely wrong. |
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| May-21-12 | | BlackSheep: Congrats to Vishy he played more like a champ today just goes to show the sooner he gets out of book the better chances he has at outplaying Gelf . |
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| May-21-12 | | Ishaan: Yesterday's win might have encouraged Gelfand to be more adventurous but in doing so he played to his opponent's strength, I guess. |
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| May-21-12 | | Rachit: < Rachit: Spending time like this on computer generated openings would always mean disadvantage for Anand as Gelfand would have prepared with the same type of computer assistance, knowing very well how not to give advantage to Anand in those lines. For Anand it would have been better to go into wild games and beat Gelfand in over the board games. I hope Anand plays like an untamed beast in the remaining part of the match and rely on his on the board skills. > Damn Anand is reading my comments !!!!! |
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| May-21-12 | | bharatiy: today they were out of prep very early and they they played chess!
And chess game was won by worthy champion.
May be Anand should employ this tactics of playing unusual positions and so Gelfand's preparation will be useless.
Kamsky did this with good success after his comeback. |
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May-21-12
 | | Absentee: < Rachit: < Rachit: Spending time like this on computer generated openings would always mean disadvantage for Anand as Gelfand would have prepared with the same type of computer assistance, knowing very well how not to give advantage to Anand in those lines. For Anand it would have been better to go into wild games and beat Gelfand in over the board games. I hope Anand plays like an untamed beast in the remaining part of the match and rely on his on the board skills. > Damn Anand is reading my comments !!!!!> It was Gelfand who deviated from theory with 7. - Nh5. |
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| May-21-12 | | solskytz: Although it's equal again, I doubt it that we'll see more bloodless draw... the tiger has woken up!!
Can Gelfand match his wit? |
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| May-21-12 | | capanegra: I just noted this is the shortest decisive miniature in the Chess World Championship history. Gelfand must be very shocked. Good for him that tomorrow is a rest day so he can (manage to) psychologically recover from this. As for the game itself, I'm personally glad to see Vishy winning, but the merits should be shared with Gelfand, who blundered terribly after a very fine and original opening. In fact the game would have been far more interesting had Black played 12…Qh4+. All in all, IMO the chess level shown in the match so far has been rather crappy for a CWC standard. |
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| May-21-12 | | ksr: <All in all, IMO the chess level shown in the match so far has been rather crappy for a CWC standard>
understandable when oldies are playing, the occasional s*** in the pants will happen |
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May-21-12
 | | Rodrigo Gutierrez: Unbelievable... what on earth made Gelfand go into self-destruct mode with his choice of opening and then 7... Nh5? This will be a crushing defeat for him, not only OTB but psychologically. I would not think he will be able to recover from this blow. |
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| May-21-12 | | abhi2810: Best World cheaa champion ever Vote. http://www.rankopedia.com/Best-Worl... |
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| May-21-12 | | frogbert: <just as we are congratulating Gelfand on his excellent play he blunders in move 14> blunders in complicated positions is how gelfand has lost games in the past 18 months. the weird thing is that it happens when he's still got plenty of time available. <A field day for the Gelfand bashers.> it shouldn't be - even if i'm not totally surprised by gefland making this *kind* of blunder. gelfand's (many) strengths and (few) weaknesses are still the same. but it takes a fairly neutral point of view to see that, of course. <Amazing game by Vishy.> not "amazing", but rather "appropriate". he was rewarded for it a little earlier than i would've expected, though - which just leaves *less* credit to anand. but i think his overall strategy was almost optimal today, whether planned or not. and he received some help from the bold gelfand who allowed an unbalanced position to materialize. in hindsight i think gelfand erred as much on opening choice as in making the decisive blunder; the two are actually related, imo. |
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| May-21-12 | | Bibliophage: Very fast win today. Nothing like a couple losses to loosen the players up a bit. |
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| May-21-12 | | APatzer: Did the russian commentators see the queen move (Qf2)of Anand ? |
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| May-21-12 | | TheVillageIdiot: Ah Gelfand lost.
Is there an organized Gelfand bashing later on in this forum or should I just commence on my own now?? |
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| May-21-12 | | frogbert: <What is the lesson today? That psychology is almost as important as chess skill, or that once away from their elaborate preparations even top players are vulnerable to mistakes.> no such general "lessons" can be learnt: the way gelfand went down today is linked to *his* personally biggest, *current* weakness, i think. at 43, soon 44, he's not as tactically strong as before it seems. |
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| May-21-12 | | Sacsacmate: Shipov after 12. g4
<Gelfand has sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind...> I absolutely love his style of commenting ! |
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| May-21-12 | | APatzer: Did the russian commentators see the queen move (Qf2)of Anand ? |
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| May-21-12 | | frogbert: <Did the russian commentators see the queen move> which russian commentators? |
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| May-21-12 | | Troller: Nepom certainly missed Qf2, until Anand actually played it. |
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