World Chess Championship (Game 11)

[Steve B]

K-K match 1984

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=55015

after 11 games Karpov lead 4-0 with 7 Draws..even more dominating then this match
if this were a twelve game match it would be Karpov waving to Kaspy saying..

CYA.. have a nice day regards
Steve

[Terry McCracken]

K-K match 1984

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=55015

after 11 games Karpov lead 4-0 with 7 Draws..even more dominating then this match
if this were a twelve game match it would be Karpov waving to Kaspy saying..

CYA.. have a nice day regards
Steve

It's so true! However, I believe that match went on so long that Karpov called it off due to exhuastion!

Finally they worked out a second match and Kasparov won.

Out of all the Match players I think Karpov in his prime was the toughest of all!

We'll never know if Fischer could have held the Crown or not in 1975?

It wasn't meant to be Regards,
Terry

[BubbaTough]

Yes, sad it was only 12 games...all indications are the 2nd 12 would have been much more exciting . Anyway, congrats to Anand, a longtime favorite player of mine.

-Sam

[AdminX]

[swami]

Ted,

CCC members guessed it right, majority of them voted Anand to win when you first conducted a poll, and where as Rybka forum on the other hand guessed it totally wrong, they thought Kramnik was gonna win, blimey!

[AdminX]

Ted,

CCC members guessed it right, majority of them voted Anand to win when you first conducted a poll, and where as Rybka forum on the other hand guessed it totally wrong, they thought Kramnik was gonna win, blimey!

I know I went home on my lunch break and finally opened my six pack of Heineken beer!

[gerold]

Game Over Baby, GM Viswanathan Anand is the Unified World Chess Champion! The Title is now whole once again!

Draw Agreed!

[Event "World Chess Championship 2008"]
[Site "Bonn"]
[Date "2008.10.29"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Black "Kramnik, Vladimir"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2783"]
[BlackElo "2772"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[EventDate "2008.10.29"]
[EventCountry "GER"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Qc7 8. Bxf6
gxf6 9. f5 Qc5 10. Qd3 Nc6 11. Nb3 Qe5 12. O-O-O exf5 13. Qe3 Bg7 14. Rd5 Qe7
15. Qg3 Rg8 16. Qf4 fxe4 17. Nxe4 f5 18. Nxd6+ Kf8 19. Nxc8 Rxc8 20. Kb1 Qe1+
21. Nc1 Ne7 22. Qd2 Qxd2 23. Rxd2 Bh6 24. Rf2 Bf4 1/2-1/2


I want to thank all of you for watching and commenting on the games. I hope that most of you enjoyed it. Also thanks to everyone who assisted me with updates to these threads. Anil, thank you very much for your Rybka 3 and Susan Polgar analysis post and time updates.

Good game. Thanks Ted.

Very best to you.

Gerold.

P.S. Now i can go back to work

[Steve B]

Interestingly...
Anand played for the WC 13 years ago and in that match got shellacked by Kaspy 4-1 with 13 draws
Anand was leading the match after 9 games 1-0 with 8 draws
had it been only 12 Anand might have played differently ..perhaps coasting to a win needing to only split the points from the remaining three games to win the match

Tragically that match was played atop the World Trade Center

Sad Regards
Steve

[S.Taylor]

Kramnik succeeded in not letting it be a crush.
It is more like a bad patch of losing 3 games, to the spectator, and possible WAS.
So I think it is very good that he won atleast one, and he was unbeaten in the last few games.
He still has a face, imho.
A unifide world champion was also long awaited.
So congrats to Anand too!

[Terry McCracken]

Let's keep that Winner's Look alive.

GM Analysis of Game 11

http://www.uep-chess.com/cms_english/im ... ound11.pdf

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4988