Wow! I think I'm bad luck for Barcelona and Aronian and just about anyone who has ever met me

Sport is just following the universe and rewarding the world's criminals.

either that, or I'm just good luck for everyone

http://www.powerfortunes.com/lucky-charms.html

sorry, my good luck charm is a black knight

go figure

Sacred or nihilist for you then :)

I just walked over to the corner carry-out and bought some chocolate. I'm going to drink and eat chocolate until my depression passes...

 Good-luck (should work !)

So, who now thinks that Kramnik deliberately played like a monkey in that first game as a tactical ploy?

I admired Kramnik today. Iron-psychology. No way could imagine playing that game against all the black-pieces today ! (& it took it's toll on Aronian in the end)

I unfortunately didn't get to see the game live today (work) but I went through the game after work. The Queen is a very powerful piece, but it was very impressive considering that at one point he was playing against a rook, a knight and a bishop.

Of course he would disagree; he's far too stupid to understand how big an idiot he is.

Don't think chocolate pacifies him much...

What?

It doesn't make any sense at all, monkeys have been banned from competition as they are far too talented.

I have heard that there are monkeys who have solved chess in another dimension or something.

I've only heard about how monkeys can now type the complete works of Shakespeare.

There is a guy on this very site who writes better than Shakespeare. If only we all had honers classes.