Comphrensive ?? Naditch on chessbomb has always only spit out Houdini moves with some natural language. Better to listen to commentary on ICC or the live portal where the commentators express true opinions without computer analysis.

I won't watch games on chessbomb because of a person called zeblakob80. He says bad things about God and his chat friends pick on new people. Just today he said bad words about children and that God does not exist. I won't go there and watch again, till this person and his friends are removed.

Maybe Boris prepared all the moves at home. Time to come to Fischer chess ???

@Matt Yes, and this shd make you feel even better :
Nakamura is just two or three US CHess Federation rating points from topping big mouths 2851 rating. Kamsky has joined the 2800 club. And, the Syrian-American is losing boo-coo rating points but, he will continue writing more books for the masses..

dont complain about the draw on icc! all the trolls had a freak out fest earlier! :)

There are lots of positions in which a human grandmaster may feel under pressure whereas the computer would see it as 'quiet' because of their processing ability.

Great comment, Mr. Guigante.
It was informing and I agree.

Again great comment.
Thanks.

My take on the game (as a long-term amateur Grunfeld player): If - after 8.Bb5+ Nc6 - the rather logical 9.d5 was dangerous for black/promising for white it would be far more common. At most, Anand posed Gelfand some small problems or opportunities to go wrong. At the same time, he avoided whichever surprises the opponent might have had in more topical lines.

Historically, I was wrong once: the "Sevilla variation" was considered harmless before it became a theme of one of the Karpov-Kasparov matches. Thereafter it was reasonably popular for a while.

Referring to the US Championship is altogether odd: Nakamura and Kamsky know that something like +5 might be required for first place; hence they try hard to beat nominally weaker players. But their direct game may also turn out to be "devoid of fight" (depending on the tournament situation at that stage). Anand and Gelfand know that +1 means mission accomplished, and 6/12 means tiebreaks rather than match over.

Plus BG's outside passed pawn...check out the position with one pair of rooks and one pair of bishops removed.....Hardly a draw but likely a win for Black.

badly played? what are you talking about??

agreed!!

Sometimes ads pay according to number of page views. Each time the page reloads = 1 page view.
Everyone has to make money.

Yep, really annoying. Especially because we can add comments in mid-thread (like this one). That means you have to go through all subpages anyway to see what is new.

It was only the first round. They changed a few punches, tested the opponent's reactions. Gelfand showed confidence and grabbed the initiative. Anand showed accuracy when he was in a tight spot. Try to find the right measure of counterplay in such an asymmetric position yourself once! They are here for the title, not for the show. Good start. Tomorrow will be the second round.

Because it's not boxing.

Completely agree. The current format is very irritating.