Anand candidate for WC!

I believe we should praise Anand, for becoming a candidate to the World Championship for the following reasons:

1. He showed that the "rating" worshipped by a lot of people, is totally useless is predicting who is the strongest! (Only exception is Carlsen!)

2. He showed that old players can be as strong as young one. Which should revise some federations beliefs on investing money ONLY on young players.

3. Differently from fake world champions like Botvinnik, or Karpov, which obtained their right to challenge the world champion over and over through politics and FIDE, Anand fought and won his right.

4. Now, is it possible that In the eternal debate about who is the best player of all times, we can substitute Karpov or Kasparov with Anand? (Obviously Fischer is the only one we can make a comparion to...)

I also like to point out that Anand should be praised for his influence on chess in India, to develop the game we love, in such huge nation, is something really great, and deserve to be remembered as an accomplishment for all human kind.

"He showed that the "rating" worshipped by a lot of people, is totally useless is predicting who is the strongest!"

You can't say that ratings are totally useless because the rating favourite doesn't win every tournament. Only Aronian was clearly higher rated than the other players, but when he had a comparatively bad event very little separated the others, and at the moment Anand is the highest rated of them.

"Now, is it possible that In the eternal debate about who is the best player of all times, we can substitute Karpov or Kasparov with Anand?"

If you become the best player of all times by winning the latest tournament he is the greatest, otherwise he isn't.

It's amazing how Anand can go from "washed up bum" to "hero" in just five months.

This is a copy and paste from March 2013 FIDE top rated list:

No, what I meant is that Anand is a world champion worth of respect. Which is able to make a come back at his age, when most retire, and that nobody ever cares about him, when they do comparisons between who is the best of all. So it is quite strange, that this player, who didn't happen to win the world championship by luck, as Tal, is actually less considered than many other world champions, since he should deserve more credit.

I know I know people just riding the train, etc.