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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
RE:great anand!
by t games on Sep 27, 2007 11:46 AM Permalink
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 examples will FIDE and the elite tournament organizers need to prohibit the draw offers?
Fortunately for the dignity of chess, Anand and Morozevich played a good and interesting duel right from the start. The Indian knew that winning this game would leave him very near from the crown; therefore he worked consequently, squeezing the position to the maximum, moving his knight from an ineffective square into a magnificent one. On the other hand, Morozevich, always creative and fearless, tried by his counterplay to stop and difficulty Anand's attack as much as possible. Meanwhile Peter Leko and Levon Aronian got involved into a combat worthy of respect, but less attractive, that concluded as a draw.
Anand's valiant knight arrived to his golden area, but Morozevich found a way to create serious doubts on his opponent, emphasized due to the perspective of having the title just around the block. "There were several moments where I didn't understand what was happening on the board", recognized Anand, who will be Black in the next two rounds, vs. Gelfand and Svidler. The ending could not be more exciting: Anand sacrificed his Queen, and offered his Rook in order to allow his valiant Knight to give the mortal step that assured the crowning of a pawn. Morozevich, who contributed to produce the beauty, had no more choice but to
RE:RE:great anand!
by t games on Sep 27, 2007 11:46 AM Permalink
The ending could not be more exciting: Anand sacrificed his Queen, and offered his Rook in order to allow his valiant Knight to give the mortal step that assured the crowning of a pawn. Morozevich, who contributed to produce the beauty, had no more choice but to accept his defeat with all the dignity which Kramnik, Grischuk, Gelfand and Svidler didn't show on this Tuesday.
Fortunately, humans forget more easily bad moments and hold on to good times. We shall never forget Anand's performance on the 11th round of the World Chess Championship in Mexico.
