Only then we will see Age is a factor in chess or not , it wont be as easy like this . I do hope younger players will be benefited from this and we will have more fun watching this . Anand may opt not to play many games in each year and happily keeping his Word Title , fair he can do that but only after putting the world title under intense battle.

Another good white effort by Gandalf , hoping for anything more in Vishy´s prepared line would be childish - same as expecting Anand to play on in the final position.

Looks like we are up for some exciting TBs.

Chess on highest level is - draw. Gambling is losing or winning.

Chess at highest level = winning - is a fairy tail.

unfortunately as a vishy anand fan I am forced to admit - the king is dead. He is too toothless to pose a threat to the modern generation. I dont think he will survive a match with the US Chess Champion - forget Aronian, Kramnik or Carlsen. I expect him to lose to Gelfand tomorrow - his play is not active enough to win. He should have refreshed his team - done something to change things around - unfortunately too late now.

Personally, this match is as exciting as Kramnik - Leko...who cares about quality if there is no fight?

Anand losing game 12? Not a chance. He showed in game 11 that a surprise move gives a big time advantage. And game 13 is a rapid game...How about big time advantage then... Congratulations to the WC title Anand.

This match is 10/10 interesting to any serious chess player. Those who don't find it interesting should simply train harder and become stronger in chess, so that perhaps some day they will be able to follow World Championship matches.

Gary Kasparov's comments re the future of chess were extremely important (and heartening)...His support for the Sofia rule and changing the starting position of the chess pieces in the future in top level chess tournaments and world championship matches tells us chess will adapt to the advances being made by computers with the traditional starting piece positions. Future generations will not find our game "played out" but with continued richness and new beauty.

Maybe a couple of Lasker's 8-0 title matches could be seen as boring in the way that they weren't much of matches, but at least Lasker showed why he was such a great player in them. Nowadays high quality is much too often equalled with drawing in the opening and avoiding creativity and complications. The less that happen in a game the stronger the players are said to be by the chess masochists, but that won't change the fact that no one will remember this title match next week.

Anand 6th at the live rating list. After this event,if he wins, he will have to focus again on the legitimacy of his crown, by winning some events. Or he just decides to drop chess, because it doesn't make sense anymore.

Can't remember watching such a bad match.....

For all those who complain of being bored by the match: Make an appointment with some other chess players, switch off the engines, follow the match live and give it a serious think what *you* would have played in place of the WC contenders.

Let me assure you: It's fun! We did it yesterday at our chess club. It was a great event and we enjoyed the afternoon tremendously.

world bore championships - starring bore-anand and bore-is drawfand.

This match has so little fight... :-(

Cool pic on the "Mate in Moscow"-site with Peter and HWS! :D http://mateinmoscow.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/27-may-rest-day-moscow-is-m...

Fortunately , this is about to change , next match rules will be different , is there is a next match since this already proves what Carlsen and me (ehemm) already knew : we need World championship tournaments like San Luis , not this boring duels which couldn be more ignored by the almost the whole world .
I hope Gelfand wins tomorrow , just to see lots of people annoyed by the fact that the Champ is not even a top ten player.

This is why the draw offer has to be removed from chess. Sofia rules have to be in effect for the next World Championship.

It's actually simple: Just abolish the (unnatural) castling rule. Games will naturally be much sharper and the entire opening theory will be erased at once.

Anand should go for f3 anti grunfeld today.
Gelfandbreally used to like 6 c5 in samisch variation so may go for it again I.e. 3 c5

utter gutlessness