No Handshake between Anand and Topalov

Yes, why didn't Topalov play by "Sofia rules" himself and wait for the technical draw ? Why pull over the arbiter ?

I don't like his poor attitude either, but he is an exciting player to watch. Even if/when he wins this match he would still have to deal with Carlsen who i think is due to be world champion soon anyway. I do hope Anand wins, but only cause he has shown his worth and stupid tactics like Topalov is making don't work on seasoned players like Anand.

 Very funny.

That's not how it works. They both go to the arbiter. If Topalov has white he grabs the right hand of the arbiter and Anand grabs the other. Then they start shaking causing the arbiter's arms to move in an undulating motion. This occurs while breakdancing music is being played.

People just like attacking Topa. Anand was unsportsmanlike and didn't acknowledge a draw request.

Topalov is trying to push rules that are neither officially accepted nor sportmanslike. If you want to agree on a draw, you should propose it to your opponent. An arbiter cannot enforce a draw unless it's a technical draw. Anand was completely right to ignore him.

The Tarantino version, I take it?

Topalov might even ask for implementing Sophia rules, which may require Anand to not wear glasses (Cheating because of better vision!) and use gloves during gameplay (prevents germinal contamination from one hand to other.) 

Shaking hand is not mandatory. However if one of the player shows his hand for hand-shaking, the other player is supposed to hand-shake (either in the begining or at the end of the game).

I was not expecting this from Anand. Irrespective of whatever happened sround him for the past 3 decades, he kept his sportsmanship and considered always chess above him. My only sincere hope is he was totally relaxed to obtain a draw and completely forgot to ask for the hand-shake.

I do admire Anand's rejection of offer proposal through arbiter. he did the best without moving beyond a line

Anand did right ! If someone trumpets weeks ahead of the match that they are not accepting draws they shouldnt' be calling for the damned arbiter when they are crying and want to draw.

It is very interesting to see Topa wants draw and Anand ignores !!!

Truely this is psychological game.

What about the fourth game ?  Did they ''remember'' to shake hands?

No news is good news. As no media attention on hand-shake, I assume they did.

Topa does'nt evn deserve 2b Anand's rival.

I think they shud start a new system... whoever loses (Topalov) the C'ship must take his shoes on his head and run throughout the City of Sofia.

I am not sure that Topa is really a worse chess player, the problem is he seems to think so.

What I liked most about this incident is Anand's comment when asked why they didn't shake hands: "Well I wasn't sure, maybe we had to shake the arbiter's hand or something". LOL

I knew it! That must be part of the Sofia rules!

Anand was not sure whether his hand-shake valid only when you do it three times repeatedly !!!