wschill wrote:
I think twelve games is just TOO short for a WCC
I agree.
Carlsen vs Anand
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does anyone know the time control of the match?
I think best of 20 games is the perfect duration. 10 as each color. I always thought the interzonal tournaments were a good way to pick the top 8 candidates & let them play matches in an elimination bracket to pick a challenger like they used to. If matches being too time consuming is a concern, they don't have to play 12 & 16 game matches. Final 8 could be best of 6 games. Final 4 at best of 8 games. The final a best of 10. There doesnt have to be a title match every year, maybe every 2-3 years.
I think the time control is 40 in 120 & 20 in 60. I'm not sure about the 3rd control, maybe an extra 30 minutes.
I think it should but it doesn't. I'm pretty sure. I think it's just straight 40 moves in 2 hours, & then 20 in 1 hour. There may be one after 60 moves.
"There is a single time control for all major FIDE events: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one. "I would think this follows the same time control
i think anand will own carlsen
bishshoy_das wrote:
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.
i don't think carlsen can think more and deeper than anand. anand has much better opening play and carlsen might have a slight edge in endgame play
Better to overestimate rather than underestimate
Anand is too old for more than 12 games. Certainly he will lose.
Carlsen is too young for more tahn 12 games. Certainly he will lose.
Both of them will lose.
uh one of them has to win
VikRajasekaran wrote:
uh one of them has to win
It's called a "draw".
THen its called it goes into tiebreaks, matches dont end it draws
Anand certainly has experience defending and winning his title the last three times against Kramnik, Topolov, and Gelfand. I don't doubt Carlson will be world champ at some point, but he might need a second match to actually strip the title from Anand.
It'll will definitely be a slugfest, but unlike last time where anand was the heavy favorite, its roughly equal maybe a slight edge for carlsen
If it's 6-6, then the current title holder retains the championship, I believe. That's what the rule was in the past. I'm not sure if they changed it to be decided in rapid games for tiebreak and then armageddon.
I think twelve games is just TOO short for a WCC