May-06-13 Anand-Carlsen World Championship (2013) 
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Progman: In principle, this case is simple: If Fide can in their statutes can place a WC match wherever they want without an open bid round, they of course can decide for Chennai or the Sahara for that matter. If they in their statutes demand an open bid round, Chennai is premature and a ...
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| | Apr-04-13 Magnus Carlsen
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Progman: Regarding Carlsen's problems towards the end of the candidates, I believe it was a good, and perhaps necessary lesson for him. Lesson being: "do your normal thing" whatever the circumstances - play fast, come out of opening equal or somewhat better, then play on opponent's clock and
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| | Apr-01-13 World Championship Candidates (2013)
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Progman: Carlsen blundering away a game (equal at that) in time trouble has happened before. Carlsen GETTING in time trouble in the first play in a clutch game is a rarity. A combination of nerves and exhaustion? Hopefully he will gain experience from this. In hindsight: Better now than in ...
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| | Mar-23-13 Carlsen vs Radjabov, 2013
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Progman: <I can't believe that Mangus is happy about this game.> Well, like I quoted above, Magnus appearantly stated after the game that he believed he played out of his ass. Not the sound of a man happy about his game I'd say :-)
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| | Aug-02-12 Carlsen vs Bacrot, 2012
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Progman: Could we already be talking about an upcoming time trouble for Bacrot?
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| | Jan-30-11 Tata Steel (2011)
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Progman: Is Carlsen going down here?
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| | Dec-17-10 London Chess Classic (2010)
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Progman: How about a World championship ala football?
1. Tournament every four years - you'd have to qualify either through ranking (top 32 players) or by pre qualification of some sort.)
2. 32 participants
3. Group play with top 2 qualifying to the end round (could best of 5 games for ...
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| | Feb-09-10 Carlsen vs Anand, 2009
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Progman: <carlsen like so many other young so called prodigies will fizzle out quite soon.> yes, many prodigies fizzle out. However, historically speaking, I suppose all top players in the world - be it Kasparov, Fischer etc.- have been prodigies at some point. They were/are <the ...
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| | Feb-01-10 Corus (2010)
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Progman: <The computer obviously points out the huge Rd1 hole in the opening, though apart from that it was still a great game > I guess there will always be huge silicon holes in any game played by humans.
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| | Dec-10-09 London Chess Classic (2009)
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Progman: 10 minutes - twenty moves...
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