Anand Strikes again

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He just beat Mamedyarov in 30 moves, playing Black.

And I was writing him off......

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rooperi wrote:

He just beat Mamedyarov in 30 moves, playing Black.

And I was writing him off......

What's the point? when he faces carlsen he will chicken out and lose again anyway.

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David210 wrote:
rooperi wrote:

He just beat Mamedyarov in 30 moves, playing Black.

And I was writing him off......

What's the point? when he faces carlsen he will chicken out and lose again anyway.

he doesn't care? There is a lot of value to qualify for the world championship and you earn big money by just attending and playing the match.

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lol, Sure, but 3 days ago nobody gave him a snowball's hope of facing Carlsen

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David210 wrote:
rooperi wrote:

He just beat Mamedyarov in 30 moves, playing Black.

And I was writing him off......

What's the point? when he faces carlsen he will chicken out and lose again anyway.

It's funny that you can state this as fact.

Did Anand chicken out when he beat (in WCC matches):

 - Shirov

 - Kramnik

 - Topalov

 - Gelfand

Just because he lost one match ...

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..No body expected Anand would do well.

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-waller- wrote:
David210 wrote:
rooperi wrote:

He just beat Mamedyarov in 30 moves, playing Black.

And I was writing him off......

What's the point? when he faces carlsen he will chicken out and lose again anyway.

It's funny that you can state this as fact.

Did Anand chicken out when he beat (in WCC matches):

 - Shirov

 - Kramnik

 - Topalov

 - Gelfand

Just because he lost one match ...

Ur list doesn't include carlsen, i didnt say he chickened out against the other players, i only said he did so against carlsen, he was practically half sleep during the whole match.

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He didn't chicken out. Anand lost hardly any rating points in his match against Carlsen. He lost but that is the expected result when the players are rated 100 points apart. In terms of ratings it was probably the most one sided ever world championship.