Who will win the 2013 world championship? Anand or Carlsen?

Carlsen starts with White. He's gonna play 1.Nf3.

Anand Alfredo, do not know how that sounds or taste. Anand retires and tries his hand at cooking.

Hey, Garry Kasparov was on the news because he wanted citizenship for some country (forgot which one it was). At least chess is getting some publicity for something OTHER than the World Championship. 

Or geting arrested

Why speculate? All you have to do is look at the bookmakers' odds...couldn't possibly  be more simple than that!

LOL

Odds are dumb. They are all speculation, just like what we are doing. So how is it going to help us understand any better?

Odds and ratings are both dumb.

At least, that what all Anand fans been telling me for the last 6 months now.

And Carlsen is rubbish at tactics, we all know that.  Anand will blow him away.

I was actually impressed with 62 year old Anatoly Karpov, who still has a rating well over 2600 and still plays sometimes. It makes me wonder what he would have in the tank for one last epic match play with someone...

8 hours and 21 minutes away!!!!

I think Anand has the advantage being black in the first game. Carlsen may have to press or  give Anand a 6-5 color advantage going forward!

I think the sequence changes after the 6th game.

So, Anand starts AND finishes with Black, if I ubderstand correctly. I think that favours Carlsen

Thanks for the info - makes sense and will be interesting....

When Gelfand won the World Cup to earn the right to challenge Anand for the World Championship Title last year, he was by no means the favorite as far as the rating is concerned. Nevertheless he does it, and even give Anand a hell of scare in their match. Carlsen's rating may be vastly distant from Anand's but you can never underestimate experience.

Carlsen is an exceptionally strong player and may be the greatest of the two, but i have a feeling that Anand will win this match.

Carlsen by 2 pts. It is his time.

This match reminds me a bit of Capablanca against Lasker. Lasker was the oldish stager but Capablanca had too much energy.

The irony for me, when I read your statement is that, after looking at a few of Lasker's games, in which he destroyed his opponent's, he seemed unbeatable to me. Lasker's domination of his opponent's reminds me of Anand, with the black pieces, against Aronian at Tata Steel. To think that a young upstart could upstage him seems unlikely but, as you have said it so well, it is a quite similar situation and possibility...

First game was drawn by agreement!

Well, yeah. But they agreed to repeat. Either player could have chosen not to repeat the position without a fear of losing.