Stefan Sergiev: Topalov Excelled Kramnig During the Whole Match
12 October 2006 21:19 FOCUS News Agency
Sofia. ‘It will be a nerve-wrecking day tomorrow. Rapid chess will be played, which has nothing to do with the rules of the main match. So far the games have been played normally, now it will be fast. Veselin would have a psychological advantage here, because Kramnik will not be able to go to the toilet so often’, the President of the Bulgarian Chess Federation Stefan Sergiev said in an interview for FOCUS News Agency. He was commenting on the result of the World Chess Championship Match in Elista.
‘The initiative was supported by Topalov the whole time. I hope that Veselin will surprise him tomorrow. Veselin has been playing for the victory, for the attraction, for the beauty of chess the whole time. The real match is over, tomorrow’s game will be only for the attraction, to determine the winner’, he said.
Bulgarian source: Focus News Agency 
Topalov rules!
Interesting. Topalov played for the beauty of the game. And to win. One is tempted to ask “why the blunders then?”. But to be fait, Kramnik also had one in 11 Games.
By the way: I wrote a Post in my Blog about the outcome of tomorrows tie-breaks. I give reasons why the match will end the way it will end. Maybe you want to read it and see if I got some point in what I am pointing out.
May the better player win!
Alex
That picture just screams, “Look at me….I am The Devil! Bwahahaha…”
“The real match is over, tomorrow’s game will be only for the attraction, to determine the weener…” 😀
Wow, support for Topalov! Let’s see where it’s coming from – surprise! Bulgaria! And what a pile of @%!# again…
He certainly “excelled” in some things, but he failed to beat his opponent. And that was the point I guess.
And this is surprising coming from a Bulgarian news service? 😉
“Topalov Excelled Kramnig During the Whole Match”
That’s totally right.
Topalov plays great chess.
Drawnik plays boring chess.
End of discussion.
I think the comments about Kramnik winning 6-5 or replaying the 5th game are rubbish for the simple reason that Topalov played game 6 under the assumption that he had that extra point. You cant suddenly retrospectively change that because Topalov’s entire match strategy has been based on it, that is why I think any Court would be very reluctant to overrule the forfeit. If you do overrule the forfeit you also have to play all the games again so that Topalov can have a match strategy which accounts for the actual score.
Well, if Topalov really excelled he should have won so far. But if Kramnik excelled, he should have been able to win at least one game without the help of the Topalov blunders (I mean not mistakes, but huge mistakes), and Kramnik just couldnt do that – he tried hard in game 3 but it didnt work.
Silly boasting by the Bulgarian! We know it was Vallejo Pons who made the match interesting – but Topalov let him down. In the future perhaps we’ll get some genuine Paco!?
Anonymous Frank
Topalov failed to demonstrate that his chess is better than Kramnik´s, mostly because of blunders and i think because he is in Russia under really-careful-thought-mind-pressure.
Still , Topalov´s chess is better than Kramnik´s , and thats the truth no matter what russians think! (im not from Bulgary , i might add)