2014 World chess championship

Magnus Carlsen vs Viswanathan Anand
Game 3 today. Won't spoiler for anyone who has missed the start. Brag about your rating, comment on the games.

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They played eachother in 2013 and i found myself following the event then. It has been brilliant so far.

Enjoyed both games and thought they were pretty interesting. I especially liked game 2. Didn't think you could come up with any strong "anti-berlin" kind of openings. The maneuver Ra3-g3 with Nh4-f5 and Qh5 was sexy.

awww shit A Patel in the house

Rematch city. Last battle was epic, impressed that Anand is back

>thinking i was going to see a live chess game

Nope.

>triple pawning yourself

last match was as big a blowout as youll ever see in chess. this probably will be as well. real shame it wasnt carlsen/caruana

every time i hear about chess in the news, i start playing, hoping i don't completely blow donkey dick, but indeed, i blow complete donkey dick at this fucking game

This is an annual event? How did Anand get back in it, did he really win the candidates or was it an auto rematch or something like that? Made a pretty penny on Magnus last year 100% would have bet him again had I any idea this was going on. Seems like last years WC was a much bigger deal.

anand won the candidates tourney. seconding daut, carlsen/caruna wouldve been a sick matchup. But then carlsen is gonna win this and prolly another couple years so caruna should get his shot.

Vishy won game 3. Things are getting interesting.

Garry Kasparov ‏@Kasparov63 3m3 minutes ago

Easy win for Vishy today. Terrible prep by Carlsen. No matter how well you play, can't expect good results when lost after the opening.

Kasparov gets to say "I told you so" to Carlsen after he abandoned his training 8)

I thought game 4 would've lasted more moves with Carlsen trying to exhaust the older player in prevision of next games and hoping for a blunder. It felt like the type of endgame that has always suited Carlsen so well, little disappointed about that.

On November 11 2014 15:44 Liquid`Drone wrote: anand won the candidates tourney. seconding daut, carlsen/caruna wouldve been a sick matchup. But then carlsen is gonna win this and prolly another couple years so caruna should get his shot.

Yes, and I think Aronian is also trickier than Anand and could've surprised us with a better match, even though he's been falling due to sickness and stuff lately.

Though with the great win on game 3 we can't complain much at this point.

with the exception of last years world championship match, i always thought anand had excellent opening preparation.

from the 2013 tata steel, anand vs aronian:


was really blown away by anand's performance in that game, just had to be opening prep work since it was far too complex to come up with over the board. due to this perceived strength in opening prep, i thought he would sometimes have an edge on carlsen. if carlsen doesnt play one of the unknown off beat or new lines and enters into one of anand's preparations he may fall into big problems.

last year seemed weird, anand just kept playing e4 and getting nowhere. not sure why it took him so long to play something else when clearly he wasnt making progress. anand is brilliant, but it seems like he loses focus in long games.

aronian is pretty great and it would be fun to watch carlsen enter into a more tactical battle with a player like that, but carlsen/caruana is the real prize. those guys are going to be 2830+ for a long time, big gap between them and everyone else. there is no world championship next year and caruana is probably ~40-50% to make it through the next candidates tourney. so we have to wait at least 2 years for it

Do you guys think its worth betting on Carlsen at 4.4 ?
Obv doesn't include it if they go into tie-breaker

At 4.4 nope. I like Carlsen to win this but I think its much closer than a lot of people think. Vishy is very motivated. Since losing the championship he has been working really hard and is in top form. His prep for this match has been second to none and I actually wouldn't be too surprised if he won.

ouch.....the old double blunder

Crazy stuff. At one point during the press conference I thought Carlsen would throw his microphone at the audience after being asked for the 15th time how he felt about the blunder.

Marathon 7th game, felt like Carlsen was pretty frustrated at Anand's great defense and just wouldn't give up pressing.

At the end Anand was looking at Carlsen with eyes saying "are we done yet"? Haha

Carlsen playing computer moves.