Will Carlsen accept early draw offers from Anand?

In last years WC match, Gelfand-Anand, there were 7 games that were draws before move 30.  In my opinion, most of the games were rather dry and neither player seemed to really press for the full point.  We know that Carlsen is certainly not afraid to press in any situation in FIDE tournaments, but we have yet to see him play in a MATCH, and especially against someone with the match experience Anand has.  Will Carlsen be pressing throughout the entire match and play fighting chess?  Or do you think he'll play solid early on and only try to poke for wins as the match wears on?  

Not a chance. Carlsen presses until it's completely dead. If he did, he would be giving away his advantage. He doesn't get big advantages out of the opening very often.

Carlsen is younger and healthier than Anand. He will push Anand to the limit in every game, much like Topalov did. But Carlsen will probably have much more success than Topalov did because, well, he's a much better player.

No draw offers allowed before black's 30th move.

Really? I hate that.

Why?

The rules for the match say that the players can not agree to a draw before move 30, so there will not be such early draws. Carlsen probably wouldn't accept them anyway.

Artificial and pointless. If they want to draw they will, and any extra rules spoil the purity of the chess.

If the players want to preserve the purity of the game they can always go for repetition draw as soon as they like, there's no rule against that.

Personally I am glad that this rule is in place. When they do the repetition they know they act against the spirit of that rule. It's for the world title for godsake. You either win, or you die trying. Not drawing.

This was done entirely for the fans. The players will know if there's no reason to play a position out.

It's a shame really, because draws are part of match strategy. Unless one side jumps out to an early lead, we will see several games where the players could have agreed to a draw on move 20, but shuffle the pieces around rather pointlessly for 10-20 moves.

Meh, I think it's because of all the draws in the last WC match.

I've said many times that anti-draw rules and 3-1-0 scoring are a crime against chess. The "purity" of the game, as a poster above me put it.

A 3-1-0 scoring system in a match would create precisely the same result as a 1-.5-0 scoring system would. It would only make a difference in a tournament setting.

The shortest draw in the Anand-Gelfand match was 22 moves long. The shortest game was a win by Anand! 

Are we really arguing that the best players in the world don't know if a position should be played out?

I'm betting he will have done serious opening work for this event.

So... Better to lose than to draw ? It's how I win a lot of games against "no-draw"ers here : the game is dead equal, but in their haste to "do something" they just blow up their position.

YEAHHHH   they gona draw the first four games .

A win should count for 1 point and a draw for 0: first to win 6 games wins the title.

that's been tried before, see kasparov-karpov 1984-5.  50 games and a terminated match.

carlsen plays out his games...

The players didn't want to terminate the match, it was the organizers... but what a hell of a match it was!  Chess could use another one like that.