he is currently the 2nd best player in the world (at least according to fide ratings, not to mention the recent world champ challenge) so it is too early for him to retire imho.
Will Anand Consider Retirement?
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Apr 25, 2015
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#63
I see Anand's situation as similar to Tim Duncan's situation in basketball. Both men are not at the same level as they were 5-10 years ago, but both have reinvented themselves to the point where they are really good to borderline dominant. If we didn't know how old Anand was, would we still think of retirement as a main option? He's clearly still competitive with Caruana, Nakamura, Aronian etc., and he still likes his job, so I don't think there's any real motivation to retire beyond age, which affects everybody differently, and family concerns. If you take it on performance... he might still be one of the 3-5 best chess players in the world.
Apr 26, 2015
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#64
kclemens wrote:
I see Anand's situation as similar to Tim Duncan's situation in basketball. Both men are not at the same level as they were 5-10 years ago, but both have reinvented themselves to the point where they are really good to borderline dominant. If we didn't know how old Anand was, would we still think of retirement as a main option? He's clearly still competitive with Caruana, Nakamura, Aronian etc., and he still likes his job, so I don't think there's any real motivation to retire beyond age, which affects everybody differently, and family concerns. If you take it on performance... he might still be one of the 3-5 best chess players in the world.
Well put. Borderline dominant ... or as I'm sure people rooting for the other players might say it "annoyingly still relevant" :)
Jenium wrote:
The problem is: Without Fischer all WC-matches will - by definition - be kinda boring.
Did you never heard about Kasparov-Carlsen 1985 (decided in the last game), 1987 (idem) or Anand-Topalov (idem) ?
Jun 10, 2015
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AngeloPardi wrote:
Jenium wrote:
The problem is: Without Fischer all WC-matches will - by definition - be kinda boring.
Did you never heard about Kasparov-Carlsen 1985 (decided in the last game), 1987 (idem) or Anand-Topalov (idem) ?
How is this possible when Carlsen was born 1990 ?
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AngeloPardi wrote:
Jenium wrote:
The problem is: Without Fischer all WC-matches will - by definition - be kinda boring.
Did you never heard about Kasparov-Carlsen 1985 (decided in the last game), 1987 (idem) or Anand-Topalov (idem) ?
How is this possible when Carlsen was born 1990 ?
now you are mixing up anatoli carlsen and magnus karpov.
Well, obviously it was Kasparov-Carlsen 1987.
AngeloPardi wrote:
Well, obviously it was Kasparov-Carlsen 1987.
Carlsen was still born in 1990.
Didn't Kasparoc steal the title from Carlsen in 1985??!!
Don't want to see him retire so soon. He has been in the top ten of chess for past 20+ years.
The day he stops enjoying his chess is when should retire. Players like Tal played until the very end at top level.
What I don't want see is another Magnus Anand WCC. Next time Caruana might be a better bet.
Both 2013/14 WCC were too one sided in favor of Magnus.
Jun 20, 2015
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#76
Based on the recent win vs. Carlsen (albeit a really sub-par Carlsen), I think he's probably going to want to continue to annoy the younger players who need him to get out of the damn way.
If he plays and wins the candidates (again), he will go down in the history books as the highest rated chess troll ever :)
If he's already spent so much time and effort and money to be a super GM, why would he quit and start over years of work
Idk
The age of the board and pieces doesn't matter much, but most players eventually get sick of the game over time.