Congrats to Veselin Topalov!!!!!!!
also to his rival Kamsky

Topalov will defeat Anand and will be for second time WORLD CHAMPION!!!!

Oh my God, what an insane game ... I can't watch any more :P

to Milke;
kamsly is a Rook down !!!!
I am wathed the game live and Kamsky is very very sad ...
Kamsky is a worth chalenger for WCC, he knocked out many best players (Shirov ....) in the last Fide-Knout-out

wow... its over topalov prevails.

anand vs topalov! expect FIRE ON BOARD!!!

It was like a Football (the real..) game, when wining the Game with a goal at the last second of the second half...thanks to an oponent goal-keeper failure, when everithing was almost lost...

I like this crazy chess!!!

to VB;
I like also this crazy chess but when I do not play !!!

...an extreme chess

What do de engines say about 32... Bd3 33 d7?

to Frits Fritschy.
32. ...bd3?? you lose the queen !!!???

What a game!!!!!!!!

@ Popuscu: Wow..! After 31... b4 Kamsky was wining.....What a drama...now He's a rook down...

1-0 !

to Frits Fritschy,
Sorry I went to an other position;
your suggestion would give an equal game but

Heh, I like this crazy chess only when I play it.

Anyway, congrats to the winner. Topalov made less mistakes in the entire match and was clearly better, I would say. Kamsky got even a point more than I expected.

Anand topalov... top two in rating list... would be interesting!!!

@ Peter

I know this is a pretty lame comment considering that it is chess that matters, but....you have a BEAUTIFUL typo up there : ) :

"It was the most spectacular game of the match, and so the chess fans were treated with an excellent desert today."

Treated with a "desert", huh? Sounds pretty hot and dry, if you ask me...
:p

Sounds exciting in a wierd way of course. Because Anand will get his tail painfully synged in this match. He is a one-time champion who will be shown his true place at long last. The drubbing he will receive at the hands of Topalov will be a memorable one indeed. Of course the only SAD part of this is that ***deleted, we've had enough of this Danailov bashing, go somewhere else please*** Danailov, will be dancing with joy. That's something I don't want to see but it goes with the territory. Anand's linares performance just sucks totally. He will even lose to a loser like Kamsky.

Interesting game and nice comments from Peter Doggers. Thank you!

felt sorry for Kamsky but thats live bravo Vesko

Lets wait for the Topalov-Anand match, it will be very interesting.

man that was a great thriller ... Topalov is really brave and as GM Dimitrov wrote he is playing with fire here, this time this worked well for him. Overall though, I think he deserves the victory, Kamsky proved he is a tough opponent, but he is not quite that good to become a world championship challenger.

The match with Anand will be something spectacular, but Topalov needs to prepare better. Otherwise, he might find himself on the losing side because Anand showed great fighting spirit last year against Kramnik and he will not have problems with the clock, that is for sure.

I completely agree!

Two of the curently best players on the world should under no circumstances play a World Championship match.

And - while this may be considered spam - I cannot resist giving another Freudian typo which I recently came across [source unpublished and confidential]:
malgorithm (sic)

@Michel83: what about the other typo:

"I was a semi slave (If I remenber well)"

Another black day for world chess, although entirely predictable. What we now need is an absolutely clear and unequivocal statement from Anand, to the effect that he will never, in any circumstances whatsoever, play a world championship match with Topalov. Sadly, though, I have no expectation that he will take such a principled stand.

Michael X Tractor,
I am very cared about your mental health.

"Topalov has never been Worldchampion. For those who are still confused or ignorant here are the true Worldchampions: 1.Steinitz 2.Lasker 3.Capablanca 4.Aljechin 5. Euwe 6.Botwinnik 7.Smyslov 8.Tal 9.Petrosian 10.Spassky 11.Fischer 12.Karpov 13.Kasparov 14.Kramnik 15.Anand"

Interesting. Do you know that in early 1999 no other than Kramnik himself said that Karpov (!!!) is the the official owner of the World Championship title?

Of course he later decided to quickly forget about this statement.

@Brian Wall: Interesting and (most probably intentionally) confusing list! But I would say at least one name doesn't quite fit: Carlsen is not an almost champion, but rather may be a future champion - of course only the future will tell.

I can't wait for the match ... it will be a gigantic clash between the best players at this moment

Hi Peter,

IMO 28.Rec1 deserves '??' instead of '?!', simply 28.Rxa3 is excellent for white. Topalov took a huge gamble in Kamsky's time pressure and was lucky the American spoilt his winning advantage.

In any case it was exciting stuff! Looking forward to Anand-Topalov.

Topalov has never been Worldchampion. For those who are still confused or ignorant here are the true Worldchampions: 1.Steinitz 2.Lasker 3.Capablanca 4.Aljechin 5. Euwe 6.Botwinnik 7.Smyslov 8.Tal 9.Petrosian 10.Spassky 11.Fischer 12.Karpov 13.Kasparov 14.Kramnik 15.Anand.

'malgorithm'

thats a fine new word ,realy great :]

@me: Interesting undocumented troll. I have another one for you. Did you know that in 1997 Topalov stated that Kramnik was the only true genius of his generation?

to me and Guillaume;
I heard also that Tigran Pertossian said that Korchnoi is juste a beginner !!!
bla bla bla bla ....

to Guillaume, desol?© pour mon humeur si vous aimez Korchnoi.

to Guillaume
plutot humour.

Are you implying that what I said is not true? It is.

When all sorts of speculations regarding Kasparov vs. Shirov match were going on, and Kasparov stated that he would rather played with Anand than with Shirov, Kramnik gave an interview for Europe Echecs. In that interview Kramnik agreed with Shirov that Kasparov had an obligation to contest the promised match with Shirov. He also declared that, for what little it mattered, Karpov was the official owner of the world championship title, and attributed Kasparov's fine playing form, especially in the openings, to his preparations for the match with Shirov. He also said his loss to Shirov in the WCC qualifying match was 'an accident' due to non-chess problems he was having at the time of the match.

Now please tell me that I'm making all this up?
Don't judge others by your own ignorance.

P.S.: What does Topalov's statement (if he really said it - which is entirely possible) have to do with the topic???

kamsky played two dubious moves: 25. ...Ba4?! and 27. ...Qc4?!
The a3 pawn is thrown.

25. ...Bc8 was necessary.

I continue my last comment:

hence, the d5 pawn (move 27) is cleary more dangerous than the b7 one.

on move 27.
Topalov has got a quit "similar!?" position against Ivanchuk in Bilbao 2008, and managed to win it.
I was a semi slave (If I remenber well)

@Popuscu: Correct, it seems Kamsky is missing opportunities... Started missing 23....Rae8, and then he missed 25...Bc8 He is depending now either on his good luck or some Topa mistake... Ooopps...! It seems now Kamsky created some advantage after 30...b5... What's going on guys..?

I admire Kamsky´s fighting spirit.

Peter you say it will probably be a draw, but it looks veery dangerous for white ... I am afraid Topa would lose this one ... at least rybka and GM Dimitrov say so ;)

As already expected, GM Topalov prevailed over GM Kamsky in style! In terms of talent and other factors surely GM Kamsky was an underdog. If only one can trace back the history of GM Kamsky one can reasonably conclude that he is not even equal to GM Topalov. However, it is only in terms of fighting spirit that he is so strong. I agree that we will expect high quality chess between the GM Anand and GM Topalov in their WCC Match. GM Topalov could have won his WCC Match with GM Kramnik but his rude match strategy ruined him. Hope that he will just focus on playing chess in his WCC Match with GM Anand. So far, GMs Kramnik and Anand had already been World Champions in their respective time. Hope it will be the time already for GM Topalov next year. After GM Topalov, who will be the next World Champion? Guess who!

Looks like Kamsky is going to use up all his time in a good position. Sounds vaguely familiar.

LOL
Big market of confusions and ignorances!
Suit yourself!

4.5-2.5! Exactly what I predicted in the poll, too bad I´m not into gambling ¬¬U

The rights of the organisers are currently being violated by Chessvibes...

;)

Kristian

I knew that comment had to be coming. :-) Well, we're actually bringing the game with a delay and our source of the moves is ICC and TWIC. ;-) It's an exception of course; we're not really into bringing games live. But I just couldn't resist bringing some notes already.

Why do you say Kamsky is "following the computer"? In this day and age that seems to be a rather unfortunate way of putting it...