gelfy...

Why doesnt Anand play on time? He had 300% of Boris' time..

DRAW! Now the score remains tied, 4.5 - 4.5! Game ten starts in 19 hours, and Anand will be playing white. It's going to be a good one for sure!

Anand can't do anything, had a fortress to hold, and that's it.

No progress could be made on the board so they called it a day.

GMs don't really stall like that...

Naiditsch at chessdom gave some people a heart attack with this commentary:

42... Re7 43. g4 and [Anand] playing the very wrong 42...Re7 giving White a chance for 43.g4! A: how can this be? did Anand forgot that he had already this position on the board and played the absolutely correct 42...Kh6! Just amazing! And the thing is, the position might be winning now for White!

Later corrected to:

At a second thought we can confirm the game seems to be a draw! Very well evaluated by Black. 45...Ng8! was extremely strong and probably White cannot progress now any further... in case of 48.Kh5 now Black got the 48...Kh8!

COME ON ANAND!!!

Win as white!!!

Are all the press conferences this weird?

Then what is the clock for? Anand had more time because he took less time to think. Because he 'thought quicker' he gets an advantage in the end where his opponent gets punished for being the slow thinker. Right now Anand never used the advantage he had built up by being faster..

what's weird about it?

The clock prevents them from sitting there all day long. That position was dead drawn and so there was no reason to play. It is called sportsmanship.

It would be utterly rediculous for them to sit there and play Kh8, Kg8, Kh8 Kg8 over and over again for 50 minutes.

Other than the guy asking about Vishy's wife and the questions about how it feels to draw - nothing I guess.

Yeah well this game actually was a draw, as opposed to the earlier ones which still had plenty of variations and lines left to try. It is good, in a sense, to see a real drawn situation just to show what they are like. So match still even and on to the 10th! Go Gelfand!!!

oh yeah that lol....those were weird questions (especially the one with the fortress )

True, but I do think it is somewhat unfair that one player took alot of time to overthink his moves that ended as a draw.

In a situation like this the point should be shared according to time. They drew so both can get a max of 0,5 point.

Anand had ~55min left, Boris ~15mins. So that makes:

(55+15=) 70
55/70 = ~0,786 (*0,5=) ~0,393
15/70 =  ~0,214 (*0,5=) ~0,107

If they did this for all draws then it would be interesting. Is there anywhere an overview available how many time the players had left when games finished as a draw? Im curious what the standing is when its calculated like that.

dekaleaas, that would be really weird  Actually, I believe the result of a chess match should not depend on how fast you make your moves, unless you run out of time.

dekaleaas what you say has no meaning.

It is like giving the team that run less the win in case of a tie in a soccer or basketball match.

if the match is tied, there are 4 tiebreak games of 25 mins each player, with an increment of 10 seconds a move added on. they draw for colour. if these 4 games don't produce a winner, they then play two 5 minute blitz games, with an increment of 3 seconds a move added on, again drawing for colour. they can do this up to five times, ie; they can play upto ten 5 minute blitz games altogether. if the match is still tied they play one more 5 min blitz, sudden death, but black only has 4 minutes and if this game is drawn, black wins the world title.

there is a pause of 10 minutes between each tiebreak game.

I hope the future of chess championships doesn't come down to blitz games every year...