Chess by Shelby Lyman
on October 12, 2013 – 9:21 AM
Next month, Chennai will host the World Chess Championship.
The challenger for the title, 22-year-old Magnus Carlsen – who has gone from victory to victory during the last three years – has attained the status of an unstoppable force.
He will engage the defending champion Viswanathan Anand, a great talent himself, but at 43, almost two decades older.
As the star of Carlsen has risen, that of Anand has declined.
Their relative performances of late are reflected in their respective international ratings. While Carlsen is a towering first, Anand is ranked only seventh on the World Chess Federation’s rating list.
On the basis of rating alone Carlsen is a better than a 3 to 2 favorite.
But an egregiously bad move or two, especially in later rounds, can drastically change the momentum of the three-week, 12-game event.
An apparent and seemingly deserving and inevitable winner can suddenly be set back on his heels.
The importance of the match is reflected in the prize fund for the two players of 1.94 million Euros (approximately $2.62 million).
Anand has no illusions about the task ahead.
After Carlsen won the qualifying London Candidates tournament in April, Anand declared: “Congratulations to Magnus. He always comes through!”
Source: http://www.buffalonews.com
The only player who can beat Carlsen is Nakamura. He has the St Louis Chess Club behind him.
How do you make that out? Nakamura has never beaten Carlsen. Magnus owns him like no other chess player today. Nakamura is Carlsen’s play thing.
Maybe you want to say “the only player who CAN’T beat Carlsen is Nakamura”… he hasn’t got a single win in all is career in clasical chess games. So stop this nonsense, please! Nakamura si a good grandmaster, Carlsen is such as Kasparov, Fisher, Capablanca, Keres an mamy others a GENIUS!!!
I think Naka is much more than just a ‘good Grandmaster’ It’s just a matter of styles and sooner or later Naka will find a way to handle Carlsen. At any rate Naka’s chess is usually a lot more exciting.
Fed up with these stupid nakamura fans. There are at least a handful of better players than nakamura even among his peers. Why do you want to post about nakamura in every thread even if he is not relevant in the context.