S.Taylor wrote:I think that even _I_ would have realized that Qf6 was a mistake, in game 8.
Obviously, that doesn't mean i would have won or drawn vs Anand, but if Gelfand would only have seen his queen was being trapped, then everything else being the same, that would have been a draw and Gelfand would now be world champion.
This would have been world shattering! Then Gelfand would have gone on to make sure it stays that way!
Probably, Gelfand got a bit too excited, and lost his calm, which made him press for another win, and blunder.
If the result of game 8 had been different, then the results of the games to follow might also have been different.
S.Taylor wrote:I think that even _I_ would have realized that Qf6 was a mistake, in game 8.
Obviously, that doesn't mean i would have won or drawn vs Anand, but if Gelfand would only have seen his queen was being trapped, then everything else being the same, that would have been a draw and Gelfand would now be world champion.
This would have been world shattering! Then Gelfand would have gone on to make sure it stays that way!
Probably, Gelfand got a bit too excited, and lost his calm, which made him press for another win, and blunder.
If the result of game 8 had been different, then the results of the games to follow might also have been different.
S.Taylor wrote:I think that even _I_ would have realized that Qf6 was a mistake, in game 8.
Obviously, that doesn't mean i would have won or drawn vs Anand, but if Gelfand would only have seen his queen was being trapped, then everything else being the same, that would have been a draw and Gelfand would now be world champion.
This would have been world shattering! Then Gelfand would have gone on to make sure it stays that way!
Probably, Gelfand got a bit too excited, and lost his calm, which made him press for another win, and blunder.
If the result of game 8 had been different, then the results of the games to follow might also have been different.
May be!
I admit Anand is good at keeping cool.
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Fischer had a psychological issues,he was not a coward....
I think that he will smash Karpov if the match did take place....
Dr.D
Let's not forget that Spassky & Karpov had a training match before he played Fischer and Spassky lost. I recall Karpov being asked about who won and he said,"well, let's just say i didn't lose."
En passant,
Lonnie
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
Not for me. I surely enjoyed Anand-Topalov much more than this one.
I really think that all those short draws, even if you consider them "great opening theory battles", are just that: short and boring games from the point of view of the average chess aficionado.
I don't mind draws, but if they are disputed ones. 20 something move draws... not.
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