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LEONTXO GARCIA
The eleven round of the World Chess Championship was a true demonstration of how chess should always be: a long, interesting and beautiful battle between two players motivated by different reasons, Viswanathan Anand and Alexander Morozevich. It also demonstrated what should never happen, two uninspired players with no courage at all to fight, Vladimir Kramnik and Alexander Grischuk, and the problem is that the first one still is the actual champion. Everything indicates that Anand will take his place on Saturday.
During the press conference we heard Kramnik's saying: "If I didn't accept the draw offered by Grischuk [after only 13 moves!], I would have offended him". That phrase outraged the veteran journalist Arturo Xicot%uFFFDncatl, who replied to the champion: "Don't you think that you are the one offending the crowd of fans that follow you on the Internet?" The Russian explained once more the supposed balance of the position, but the truth is that he convinces no one. Only a severe sickness could justify such behaviour, but Kramnik has no signs for it throughout this Championship.
The second leader (up to now) of the competition, Boris Gelfand, also quit easily after 22 moves in a position full of life against Peter Svidler. How many more
