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Is it a tournament if Anand wins the Candidates disaster?

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blitzjoker

Some people say that the candidates tournament has been so poor with so many rookie blunders that it doesn't really count as a tournament unless Anand continues to play some half-decent chess to bring it back to reality. What do you think?

Seetru

Agree, some of the games have not been worthy of a candidates tournament. Only Anand has been blunder free so far. So it is turning into a one horse race, unless Aronian can pull off a 2 or 3 game winning streak and Anand can only manage draws hereon forward or goes on a losing streak - highly unlikely

Scottrf

There are very few people who actually watch these tournaments without constantly staring at an engine instead of the games. I wouldn't put much emphasis on most people's judgement of the quality.