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Re: Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion

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Post by cjbprime »

rikacomet wrote: post #5

Now what the heck happened in the end? Anand gave up a knight advantage, purposedly for a clear cut draw. I have no clue why he did that this time. He took queen with queen, clearly, knowing it would be lost to king, and then again the pawn with knight. He had a knight, of all things!

> Anand gave up a knight advantage, purposedly for a clear cut draw.

When you assume that a world-class GM played "purposedly" for a draw that would lose him the championship title, you're probably wrong.

> He took queen with queen, clearly

He was in check. Taking W's queen was the only way to avoid losing his own for nothing.

Re: Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion

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Post by lobe »

rikacomet wrote: post #5

Now what the heck happened in the end? Anand gave up a knight advantage, purposedly for a clear cut draw. I have no clue why he did that this time. He took queen with queen, clearly, knowing it would be lost to king, and then again the pawn with knight. He had a knight, of all things!

It was the best option in both cases. He was in check when he took the queen, so the queens had to swap or black would lose his queen. At the end Anand traded his knight for the pawn as a king and knight (black's material) can't win, but a king and pawn (white's material) can, so it is in blacks best interest to swap.

Re: Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion

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Post by rikacomet »

cjbprime wrote: post #11
rikacomet wrote: post #5

Now what the heck happened in the end? Anand gave up a knight advantage, purposedly for a clear cut draw. I have no clue why he did that this time. He took queen with queen, clearly, knowing it would be lost to king, and then again the pawn with knight. He had a knight, of all things!

> Anand gave up a knight advantage, purposedly for a clear cut draw. When you assume that a world-class GM played "purposedly" for a draw that would lose him the championship title, you're probably wrong. > He took queen with queen, clearly He was in check. Taking W's queen was the only way to avoid losing his own for nothing.

are you sure about that? the king could have moved back up, but in front.. moved from right side to left side between those two lines, without moving in front of the queen line.

Re: Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion

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Post by simias »

deletes wrote: post #7
jordanmessina wrote: post #4

Press conference is live right now for anyone interested: http://chennai2013.fide.com/fide-world-chess-championship-20...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFJNESXsRkY

My god those comments. Even chess streams are not safe it seems.

Re: Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion

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Post by Aqueous »

3327 wrote: post #9

Chess is amazing it blows my mind why simple tools and games like this are not incorporated in some 'fun' way into the education system. By 'fun' I mean that if children were told to play chess they would not. A system would be need to be designed so that they look forward to chess class as they do for PE and art.

Chess is very addictive and I think even if they were told to like chess they would. I know that we played chess sometimes in public grade school and having been encouraged to do so didn't prevent me from enjoying it. it eventually became quite difficult to pull me away :-)

Re: Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion

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Post by rikacomet »

lobe wrote: post #12
rikacomet wrote: post #5

Now what the heck happened in the end? Anand gave up a knight advantage, purposedly for a clear cut draw. I have no clue why he did that this time. He took queen with queen, clearly, knowing it would be lost to king, and then again the pawn with knight. He had a knight, of all things!

It was the best option in both cases. He was in check when he took the queen, so the queens had to swap or black would lose his queen. At the end Anand traded his knight for the pawn as a king and knight (black's material) can't win, but a king and pawn (white's material) can, so it is in blacks best interest to swap.

what rule is that? are you implying even if only white king, black king, and black knight would be left on board, it would be a draw/win for white by default?

Instead of trying to isolate white king into a corner for checkmate?

Never heard of a rule like that. Are you sure?

Re: Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion

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Post by iends »

3327 wrote: post #9

Chess is amazing it blows my mind why simple tools and games like this are not incorporated in some 'fun' way into the education system. By 'fun' I mean that if children were told to play chess they would not. A system would be need to be designed so that they look forward to chess class as they do for PE and art.

Armenia requires chess in schools for at least two hours a week (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/feb/07/chess-d...) and they consistently are one of the top countries in the Chess Olympiad.
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