World Chess Championship (Game 1)

[AdminX]

Screenshot from press conference after the game.

[Terry McCracken]

Thanks Ted for investing your time covering game one!

It was an easy game for both sides, no errors and Anand showed Kramnik he has no qualms playing the endgame against Kramnik.

Hopefully Anand with White takes home the full point, showing Kramnik who's boss!

Unification Regards,
Terry

[brianr]

No errors?
Please see my earlier post on page 2 regarding move 15 for black.

[Terry McCracken]

No errors?
Please see my earlier post on page 2 regarding move 15 for black.

15..Qc8 wasn't an error. The position was drawn, the extra pawn couldn't be held.

Anand played perfect chess.

Terry

[AdminX]

Rybka2.2n2 scored 15. ... Qc8 vs Rc2 an early "blunder" since +1.1 score (ply 19) for Rybka vs 0.00 is very large difference, IMveryHO

[d]3q1rk1/pQ3ppp/2r1p3/3p4/3P1Bb1/4P3/PP3PPP/R3K2R b KQ - 0 15

Deep Rybka 3 the older or younger brother of 2.2n2, which most would say "Smarter" brother says:

Analysis by Deep Rybka 3 on a Core 2 Quad Q6700:

1...Rb6 2.Qxa7 Rxb2 3.0-0 Bf5 4.f3 Qh4
+/= (0.26) Depth: 6 00:00:00 5kN
+/= (0.30) Depth: 7 00:00:00 10kN

1...Qc8 2.Qxc8[] Rfxc8[] 3.0-0 Bf5 4.f3 f6 5.h4 Rc2 6.b3 Kf7 7.Rf2 Bd3 8.Bd6 R8c3 9.Rxc2
= (0.12) Depth: 7 00:00:00 14kN
+/= (0.34) Depth: 17 00:00:15 1954kN

1...Qa5+ 2.b4 Qa4 3.0-0 Rb6 4.Qc7 Rxb4 5.Bd6 Rc4[] 6.Bc5 Bf5 7.Qxa7 Qxa7 8.Bxa7 Ra8 9.Bc5 f6 10.a3 Kf7 11.Rfc1 e5 12.f3 Bc2 13.Kf2 Kg6[]
= (0.23) Depth: 17 00:00:25 3395kN
+/= (0.35) Depth: 19 00:01:28 12484kN

1...Qc8 2.Qxc8 Rfxc8[] 3.0-0 Bf5 4.f3 f6 5.b3 g5 6.Bg3 Kf7 7.h4 h6 8.Rf2 Rc3 9.Re1 Bd3 10.h5 Ke7 11.Rd2 Bb5
+/= (0.33) Depth: 19 00:02:29 21530kN
= (0.24) Depth: 20 00:02:56 26262kN

No real blunders here, just different opinion at best.

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Here are Susan Polgars comments:

GM Kramnik (2772) - GM Anand (2783) [D10]
World Championship, 14.10.2008

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 cxd5 5.Bf4 Nc6 6.e3 Bf5 7.Nf3 e6 8.Qb3 Bb4 9.Bb5 0–0 10.Bxc6 Bxc3+ 11.Qxc3 Rc8 12.Ne5 Ng4 13.Nxg4 Bxg4 14.Qb4 Rxc6 15.Qxb7 Qc8 16.Qxc8 Rfxc8 17.0–0 a5 18.f3 Bf5 19.Rfe1 Bg6 20.b3 f6 21.e4 dxe4 22.fxe4 Rd8 23.Rad1 Rc2

Even though Black is down a Pawn, he has enough compensation with his Rook activity as well as Bishop opposite color.

24.e5 fxe5 25.Bxe5 Rxa2 26.Ra1 Rxa1 27.Rxa1 Rd5 = 28.Rc1 Rd7 29.Rc5 Ra7 = I think the players are just playing on to make move 30. I do not see serious chances for either side to score a full point in this game.

30.Rc7 Rxc7 31.Bxc7 Bc2 32.Bxa5 Bxb3 This is a drawn position. I don't expect the players to continue this position much longer.

As expected, the players agreed to a draw here.

[AdminX]

Comments from the web so far ...

Susan Polgar's Blog
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2008/10 ... ame-1.html

ChessVibes
http://www.chessvibes.com/match/world-c ... ame-drawn/

Chessbase
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4958

Chessdom
http://tournaments.chessdom.com/anand-kramnik-live

http://tournaments.chessdom.com/wcc-200 ... anand-draw

[S.Taylor]

I will try to keep this link updated with details as I get them.
PS: I knew I should have taken the day off @#!$ I bet the phone will ring all day!

Very nice. Interesting to see a human world championship again.
As for me, however, I'm getting a bit tired of seeing high profile proffessionals, whom, everything goes for them, and they are proud individuals, and their brains don't let them down too often in the meantime, and they take all the credit for themselves, and just enjoy it all.
I'd think much better of it if they used a portion of their wealth, intelligence and influence etc to help people in distress...... not organizations only, but individuals also (e.g. cases where top psychologists are just not clever or influential enough). A highly talented person like them, should also use any opportune momment to give general advice, including explaining that everything comes from G-d, and it is they who are privelaged to be in a succesful and famous position, in which they are therefore able to speak good advice which people will actually think about. A chess champion too, is a person who what they say, people will try to fathom, confident that it was said with a great mind behind it.

(If they can't have that kind of personality, and use it at times......not too much to hurt their concentration.......... then they just look like parasites to me. [but true, they shouldn't have people pull them down or drain them])

[beachknight]

Arena (and ChessBase) shows D14 as ECO code.

Interesting choice for the first game.

Best,

[AdminX]

The Daily Dirt Calls it "Yawn in Bonn":

http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/200 ... -drawn.htm

[brianr]

Thanks for the Rybka 3 analysis.
Brian