Now this is really interesting tournament.
The 2012 World Championship of Chess!
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Anand wins the match, the score is tied.
Amazing. Anand saw that 14. ... Qf6 was a blunder all the way back when he played 11. exf5. What a monster.
You mean 14. Qf6? 17. Qf2 wasn't a blunder.
Scottrf wrote:
You mean 14. Qf6? 17. Qf2 wasn't a blunder.
Yes Scott thanks.
How could he not see this?
A miniature in a WCC match! Anybody know when (if) it has happened before? BTW, great fight by both players, and great game Anand!
Wow, the quickest win ever in a title match, Gelfand must have thought Anand had blundered away the game and instead it was the other way round.
Michael-G wrote:
How could he not see this?
It does seem quite poor for a GM to miss a move after the natural continuation.
How could he not see this?
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It's easy to analyse but hard to play on board. I don't blame Gelfand. He fought well but Vishy's trick was better. He did see black queen falling in net.
Apparently this was the shortest win in a title match game before today:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1228294
Well it's very hard for human's to play with Houdini like accuracy all the time.
So is Gelfand going to revert to the Gruenfeld again now? Anand clearly has something prepared there from the way he started out today.
All_ways_winner wrote:
How could he not see this?
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It's easy to analyse but hard to play on board. I don't blame Gelfand. He fought well but Vishy's trick was better. He did see black queen falling in net.
When he brought the queen out he knew all the moves to his queen taking the rook. It's hard to believe he'd miss that he might have trouble bringing it back out.
It was just a 2 move trap!!!
This guy plays for the World Championship!!!
How could he not see it?
All_ways_winner wrote:
How could he not see this?
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It's easy to analyse but hard to play on board. I don't blame Gelfand. He fought well but Vishy's trick was better. He did see black queen falling in net.
When he brought the queen out he knew all the moves to his queen taking the rook. It's hard to believe he'd miss that he might have trouble bringing it back out.
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He is human not houdini.
Worse things have happened. Ask Bayern Munich.
All_ways_winner wrote:
All_ways_winner wrote:
How could he not see this?
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It's easy to analyse but hard to play on board. I don't blame Gelfand. He fought well but Vishy's trick was better. He did see black queen falling in net.
When he brought the queen out he knew all the moves to his queen taking the rook. It's hard to believe he'd miss that he might have trouble bringing it back out.
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He is human not houdini.
I'm a novice. After Gelfand brought the queen out I asked "What does white have after the king/rook fork?"
If I'm asking it after about 6 weeks of playing chess and half an eye on the game, why can Gelfand not see that move?
Here is the shocking game eight: