Did Anand miss a win somewhere ??

The videos are really good. Every event the videos become better. Intro, outtro, voice-overs with images, really well constructed.

However, as a whole they don't impress me as much as they could. There are 2 main reasons for this in my opinion.

Firstly, Macauley is a bit flat in my opinion, maybe he can move a bit more, walk towards the camera, things like this. Also his intonation could be a bit more lively, it's as if this is a highschool educational documentary instead of sports commenting.

Secondly, and maybe most importantly: where the music in earlier videos was excellent (exciting, energetic, and often at a high level musically) the music in these videos is plain horrible. The worst outdated eighties synthesiser 'please don't listen, this is not music it is just to fill up the silence'-music. Peter, I can't believe you really like this music! Was it a request from the organisers?

But these are easy things to improve, so I look forward to even better videos in the future!

Is it possible to get the full press conference instead of just bits and pieces..? I feel lot of people would be interested in seeing that in the video...

Gashimov and bacrot made a mockery of the no-draw rule and played a pre-arranged game. There was no new move in their game. They didn't come out of the opening theory.

the caption of the last photo says "indian chess fan": isn't this Anand's second Ganguly?

Anand won't win his last games and even if he did Carlsen has white against Gashimov in the last round and if he needs a win there he will get it.

Anand missed 24 Qd4... winning position. Topalov did what he does best, sacrifice and pray to confuse... luckily for him prayers were half answered.

Not convinced that 24.Qd4 is winning...sometime computers are like humans, they lie.

Anand might have had an objectively better position after 24.Qd4, but black has a lot of white diagonals to work with; not easy for white to consolidate. Maybe Anand just didn't like to go for a 60-move defense game again. After 25.Ke1 he confronted Topalov with a choice: keep on gambling or force the draw. Sometimes it just feels better to let your opponent choose for you...

Topalov's play and approach was brilliant. The guy is 100% entertainment with his OTB explosions.

In my view, the vidoes are great as such and Macauley is doing a fantastic job. I like the news sort of report he gives. Only suggestion is as someone else had pointed, it will be good to have the full video of the press conference.

the videos are very good, and very professionally done. Looking forward to many more of them ;-)

Full press conferences are often boring, so taking out the highlights is just fine.
Except of course the press conferences as in Wijk aan Zee, when the players demonstrate the games.

If the knight sacrifice was Bulgarian home preparation, the prep wasn't too deep this time - according to his own words, Topalov wasn't sure about his 22nd move after a relatively forced sequence. So it was more like "there is no refutation, hence it's playable" !? I wouldn't completely rule out that Topa was bluffing (lying?) - would he really admit "Anand surprised me in the opening, hence I had to take desperate measures" ?

On the other hand, Anand couldn't know - so for him it made practical sense to bail out with a draw rather than checking how deep the opponent's preparation was. Altogether, a relatively short but well-fought and correct draw !?

To Eric, just be thankful we get to see their daily chess report and some videos from Nenjing chess tournament and its all free! Most of us really appreciate what Macauley Petersen and Peter Doggers do for us Chess fans. Unlike some people like Eric came here criticizing everything from Macauley" commenting to the music that play in the background, really Eric? get over it enjoy the chess news instead and stop the whining! Maybe Eric can grab his Camera and equipments and fly to Nenjing and show us how its done!
Thank you Macauley, Peter and ChessVibes for doing a great job.

They should be Corus or London Classic style pressers, with the players going through the game. The question/answers format is harder to get engaged in -- but Macauley does a great job of putting up the positions as they are discussed,

Great job by Chessvibes. Thanks!

I like the videos as they are too. Maybe you can add a link to the press conference.

Macauley videos are great. Chessvibes beeing one of my fav sites.

But I have always thought that Macauley video reports are a bit too short (even the ICC videos in earlier years with Macauley). Let's say compared to Europe-Echecs or old pure Peter Doggers chessvibes video reports. These videos are not movies, don't need to be action packed with content and comments. I am just happy to see the players, before, during and after the games. No bits are boring.

So don't be afraid of putting in uneventful clips in the videos Macauley and Peter.

Thanks.

I read with some amazement "eric's" criticisms of the videos. IMHO, these are of outstanding quality, better than many produced by major news/sports organizations. I was thinking Macauley missed his calling and should look for a cable news/network job! Excellent production quality.

Carlsen cannot afford to draw his next matches in order to win first place; otherwise, Anand will.

not to forget Peter too. . Great Job Chessvibes Team!! Keep it Up!! :)

Another great video with Anand mentioning his almost blundering into mate. But still, I am sure Anand and Carlsen talked more after their game. It would have been fantastic to have captured that as well.

People always like to complain. FFS this is free stuff guys...if you don't like it and don't want to be constructive with your complaints...perhaps you can f*ck off ??!?

Chessvibes is great! Keep up the good work. Haters die in a fire.

So the tourney is over then? Can`t see Carlsen loosing this....

If Anand wins the next two matches, Anand wins first place.

When did Macauley start working for Chessvibes? I thought he was ICC..

I have said very clearly in my comment that the videos were very good. I have also tried to be constructive in my criticism: not only saying what I thought could be better, but also how. My sole intention was providing useful feedback. Apparently according to some I failed in this. Maybe my choice of words was a bit too harsh; I exaggerated because I thought it would make my point clearer.

Anyway, I meant no offense.

@CAL|Daniel: Apparently at the start of Nanjing 2010 - TWIC writes that Macauley is "now an independent producer".

Interesting.

I would offer one improvement which is to have the game viewer show all the games from the tournament thus far instead of JUST this round.

Think Carlsen will win this tourney now...

The only bad think in your reports is that they end! :)
I am not a strong player but I really like chess and thanks to you I am injoying it every day.
Do not take some people to wrong if they critisize. It is very good to have critisizm in order to be better. Throwing a hate on them is just the same bad as maybe their critisizm! Let everyone have their own opinion and CV crue is here to deside if they are going to improve something or not.
Go chess vibes!