Magnus Carlsen vs the World

Has Magnus blundered?  28 Nb6 seems to lose material to me.

[Edit: no he didn't and yes it did - temporarily :) ]

It`s been fun, but it`s a shame it`s been so buggy.  I`ve been dropped a half dozen times now.

Technical difficulties aside...it strikes me that this is an excellent illustration of the weaknesses of democracy. 

This is really awful.

Heh, nice analogy xD

liv tyler?

 LOL!!! A democracy in a game of Kings!

~The Doctor

heheheh

Magnus won

chess.com blew it with the D- tech. Bet they wish they could remove the "powered by chess.com". Good luck getting another GM to attach their name to a chess.com event like this. Great idea, disappointing presentation.

It was fun to listen, but the board never would update the position...then I'd have to refresh the screen...it would maybe work for 1 move.  So I pretty much just looked at a static board and listened.

Good first try though...technical difficulties can always be learned from.

this was quite an experience for me to see the world's top GM playing style, and the Magnus as well, but the technical lag was really dissapointing. from these 43 moves i could do a vote for maybe 10 in the beginning, and then just listen the commentary, with no live video feed, and tabe updating once every two/three moves :/..

i hope we'll get another chance with fixed bugs, it was a really nice match until Qb8..

Just hate hate hate 7...e5??? what was polgar thinking? she couldve guessed that so many ppl will be out of book (like me and naka and evry1 else)

Indeed, technical difficualties marred the experience for me.

Same here, it was a lot of fun hitting the refresh button. I enjoyed that.

There should have been an alternate website where the current position was displayed so we could tell what was happening on the board. Another alternative would have been to change the camera angle so the pieces could be seen on the board. I want my money back!

it was cool. imagine 10 years ago who had the acces to these matches like today. I voted from the world's bottom where there are no roads and where i am on weekend. imagine trying that 10 years ago...

Exciting game - pity about the server lag and having to constantly refresh etc..

Conflicting strategies lost it for the "world" unfortunately.

But a great experience nevertheless. Thanks chess.com for making it possible.

Three grandmasters playing together was more of a hindrance than an advantage for black, in my opinion. If we'd pit Polgar, Lagrave and Carlsen vs Nakamura, who do you guys think would win? (With a proposition of a slight change to the system - voters shouldn't see which grandmaster proposed which move, so it's the move that's voted instead of the GM, since some would automatically vote for a particular GM)

Anyways, good event, I enjoyed that (tech difficulties aside). Kasparov and Ashley certainly did a good job indeed! Wouldn't imagine they're both such a chatterboxes!

I think it can be said that the world was defeated by the failure of technology.