Anand Can Improve His Chances in the World Championship!

I feel for Anand. He did a great job preparing for the match, yet he has slipped behind 4-2. One more loss and the match will essentially be over. What can he do about it?

Previously, I posted about the problem Anand and every other chess player faces with age-related cognitive decline. If you do nothing, playing chess against someone 20 years younger and of approximately equal strength is like fighting a boxing match with one hand tied behind your back: Your chances of losing are great.  But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are a lot of things players can do to improve their chances, besides just studying chess.Here are a few:

Can Anand Improve His Chances for the World Chess Championship?

well i think the match is carlsens.

journalist asked how he would deal with it, to which Anand answered: “Well you just do your best.” The same journalist wanted him to elaborate on his answer, to which Anand answered: “Doing your best means doing your best. I dont know why you don't understand English?”

Maybe Anand should look up your website. As soon as my budget allows, i myself will subscribe for what you have to offer and try it for a year. I suspect wouldn't be disappointed. Again, appreciate your post.

Thank you for your interest, Tower of Joseph. A subscription to livingthecrway supports research. We are just launching a rate-of-aging study, which will include a section that looks at brain health. I hope to have a large group of chess players be part of that.

Sure we want to prevent Alzheimer's Disease, and dementia, but the main focus will be age-related cognitive decline. That affects everyone, including chess geniuses like Anand, which was so evident in the match.

World-class gymnasts usually peak in their late teens or early twenties. I think the same thing going to happen in chess. The new razor sharp computer era demands exact calculation, which is most easily done by players around that same age. The 43-year old Anand competing against a 22-year old Carlsen was a good example of that. Anand, in his present condition, just did not have the brain power to sit and calculate for five hours, without making critical mistakes. 

I believe he could have leveled the playing field, increasing his brain power so he could take better advantage of his years of experience and accumulated memories. This is what chess players of the future will do and it will increase the quality of games and enjoyment of the game by everyone.