Who will win the 2013 world championship? Anand or Carlsen?

look at your posts.you have no clue what means a discussion.

Maybe, IF Anand manages to defeat Carlsen, he will finally be ready to challenge Chess.com members in Votechess.

Maybe.

I am a Norwegian American and would love to see Carlsen win.

However I don't think he will. It will be very close but Anand will handle the pressure better and the overall experience advantage he has will win the day.

Either way it goes chess will have an honorable champion.

Good luck to them both!

Scary version? I don't think Magnus has hit his peak yet. I still think it will be close but time will tell.

Carleson is already champ in my book.  The entire point of being champion is being the best in that particular thing.  When world number 1 and "champion" are segregating like this something is wrong with the rating system.  According to the ratings there are six people better than the so-called "champ".  Aronian and Carlson are even significantly higher, and even Grischuk is because 10 points is a lot up there. 

Why is something wrong with the rating system? It is based on results, and Anand's results the last years have been much worse than Carlsen's.

when they play?

Carlsen, no doubt. 

November, I think

Anand cannot even beat a couple patzers playing Votechess on Chess.com. What chance does he think he has against Magnus Carlsen??

Yall are in for the shock of your life. Anand has been focusing on this ever since the last Championship match. He will dominate. 

Carlsen may retire him, nyuk nyuk nyuk.

Cidragon wrote:

when they play?

World Chess Championship Match

Event Date From : 06 - Nov - 2013

To : 26 - Nov - 2013

Event

Status Confirmed

Event

Location Chennai, Tamil Nadu,

India

I am happy that this time it is conducted in my home town Chennai I think if I am lucky I may get a chance to see them.....

 Your nastiness regarding Anand is getting old. It's one thing to root for another player, it's an entirely different matter when you have nothing but nasty criticsm of a player that could destroy you playing blind folded. He did play a 'patzer' recently in Blitz - a FIDE 2100 with Anand having 2 minutes and the FIDE player having 5 minutes. Anand checkmated him in the first game using 8 seconds on his clock and in the 2nd when he ended up with more time than he started with (2 sec increment).

--Vic.

anand ftw! 

It's true. This guy does seem to go out of his way to bad-mouth Anand. I think this happens because none of us have any real idea of how good these top GM's are. Something similar happens with the previous world champions. People stereotype Capablanca and Petrosian as "boring" and not very good at tactics since they didn't play like Alekhine, Tal, or Kasparov. Of course, that's not the criticism directed at Anand, but people think just because he's old(er), he doesn't stand a chance. His tournnament record lately hasn't helped him much either, but he's certainly one of the most naturally talented chess players of all time. He's had a few missteps, but this is not reflective of his strength in matchplay and he still stands a chance against the 22-year old wunderkind. I believe Carlsen will be the winner, but Anand has very real chances of retaining the title. He may not be the Anand of say 1997-2008, but he's still Anand.

I'm just not entirely sure how people can keep coming back to, "Anand has superior opening preparation on his side!". You DO realise that Carlsen might be the most difficult opponent on the planet to prepare against, right? He plays any and all openings, and is likely to get out of mainline theory quickly even in the most popular openings. That's the whole point of his game, and it's certainly one that I expect him to use against an opponent who is hoping to obtain an edge using opening theory.

Certainly, it will shake up the world of Chess if Carlsen wins the title and does so by completely sidestepping opening theory.

That's the thing I most like about Carlsen's play...he makes the game more about finding ideas over the board and less about home preparation. I still believe it will be a hard fought battle and I'm looking forward to some great games worthy of a world championship struggle. Time will tell.

To those of you who are criticizing Anand, (don't know who I want to win, I'm kind of on both sides) ever thought of the fact that Anand could be reading this right now? I mean, he could be a chess.com member (I'm not sure).