Carlsen vs Anand

You missed one little detail - that page isn't part of chess.com site.

I disagree here in both points.

i would love to see this off-topic "discussion" develop, but i'm afraid that the lock or mass deletion might be coming.

i disagree too, and my personal worthless anonymous noncorrespondenceplayer opinion is that chess.com can only catch the "fairly obvious" cheaters. (ie, i feel that "smart" cheaters who have some decent chess knowledge can and do stay under the radar - but, as i also think that the most important thing is to avoid false positives, you can only do so much...)
so, these guys must have been clearly cheating.

It can't qualify as slander if it is truth. It seems a common sense to me.

Why is there a discussion on cheating in chess.com if the thread is about carlsen and anand??

Anand for the win!!

It will be a battle between vast experience and on spot thinking. Anand has the vast database in his memory which he built, brick by brick, over the past decades, while Carlsen has the ability to think more and deeper than Anand, because of his youth. In other words, Carlsen will benefit from having more raw computational power, while Anand will benefit from having a humungous database. I wonder whether playing style has got a role to play in this; because Carlsen is likely to play a more modern (computer like) chess than Anand.

If I want to follow it online with commentary from experts where do I go??

I want it for free.

quadriple wrote:

If I want to follow it online with commentary from experts where do I go??

I want it for free.

I dont Think there is a site so far. The macht Will be played from 6-26 nov.

Kasparov said it would be strange if Anand came on top again though...

I consider Carlsen to be slight favourite, because Anand is past his prime.

I don't think Carlsen will underestimate his opponent.

Ya but you never know, gelfand had a monster of a tournament this year even though he is past his prime.

Carlsen will win, Anand is scared of Carlsen, Kramnik said and is true.

This is not same Anand of a years go, he have match experience, but the "more chess" that Carlsen have in this moment and more energy will win the match.

But i like the two players, are the two great persons and chessplayers.

Good luke for the two.

I think Carlsen will  win, by a narrow margin.

IF Anand manages to win, he will go from a very good champion to a great one.

If Anand has been a very good champion this far I wonder about those only being good champions. Anand has after all not won a single tournament where he faced a top ten player during five years as champion, and only one where he faced lower ranked players than that. He is close to fall out of the top ten and rarely finished top half the last years. To me he has not been in the top half among the World Champions.

Fischer - Spassky, remember?

Fischer-Spassky were much longer matches. Fabelhaft was refering to only the 12 game matches.

You are correct, MrSmith.

I think it's going to be very close. The most interesting thing I expect to happen is Carlsen trying out many different openings over the course of the match. You don't typically see that a lot for a title match, and it will be interesting to see how Anand deals with it.

I think Carlsen by 1 point. As far as the openings I believe Carlsen is going to play popular main line ones. It's for the championship so I think he will try to get some advantage out of the opening. The thing is, Magnus has such a broad range of openings that he plays it's hard to prepare for. Anands team won't be able to guess too accurately if he'll play e4, d4, c4, or Nf3. Of course as black it will be quite possible to narrow it down but that's only 50% of the games.

I think the simultaneous exhibition that Carlson scored 10W, 6D, and 4 L. is a sign of things to come in India.  Anand definately has home field advantage here. If Anand can win this title and one more, he'll have won more world titles than anyone in history. I think Anand will beat Carlson the first time around.