Enjoying these! And the kibbitzing too, thanks.

Does anyone know how the ratings have changed?

Originally posted by tonytiger41
Interesting remark.
21st century championship-level chess means avoiding machine-enhanced analysis & preparation. The Catalan is an ideal choice for long term strategic advantages and avoidance of 'attacking the king' lines.

Can anyone identify other openings fitting the description ?

Originally posted by Paul Leggett
I have to grudgingly admit that the same strategy has worked for me.😞

Originally posted by Paul Leggett
We've learned to appreciate chess art in the form of Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Dali, rather than trying to find it in a digital photo.

Hi

When I did:

http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandlerarticle.php?ChandID=395

I had nobody on RHP in mind but some of you have read it and adopted
the characters. I'm flattered.

I've played over game 2 on a board.
You have to do this to get the 'feel'.

I'm not sure if this is the positional masterpiece people are claiming it to be.

Anand's Queen swap idea reminds me of some of Lasker's games where
he would accept a weakness for piece activity.
He certainly gets this and an iron grip on e5.

But it kinda 'feels' wrong and Topo's play was so lack lustre.
I kept saccing the e-pawn to get the Bishops going.
Good or bad it was better than getting sqished,

When an imaginative player has an off day he really looks awful.

Topo had one idea. An exchange sac on d3 which Anand saw (27.Bf3 and 39.Rb3)
coming days ago.

This was Topolov's turn to get caught in the headlights like a rabbit.

India is countering the Bulgarian Gravity Death Ray with Lack Lustre Gas
and Anand is wearing nose plugs.

If Anand's match plan is to take 'risks' to keep the initiative from falling
into Topo's hands then we are in for some exciting chess.
Topo is going to need to take 'risks' to steal it back.

Oh and by the way. Morphy was not a 'duck-dodge-and mate' player.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
Oh and by the way. Morphy was not a 'duck-dodge-and mate' player.

Why does everything have to be so arbitrary with you? I didn't mean anything bad and I do not proclaim to be the chess wizard that you are. I apologize for not proclaiming Morphy's ability correctly. I admit I have a lot to learn.

Eric

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
Does anyone know how the ratings have changed?

Originally posted by pulern
Provisional World Chess Rankings (Live Rating)

I've been checking the live ratings lately, and seen that the WCC games do have a significant effect on the players rating and the overall ranking. With the top 5 being so close the WCC could tip the live ranking order.

A) Top 5 according to FIDE March list:
01 Carlsen: 2813
02 TOPALOV: 2805
03 Kram ...[text shortened]... tch he is not likely to sneak past Topalov (or Carlsen) on the rating list.


regards, Paul

Originally posted by peacedog
That was kinda poetic.

Is it a Leggett quote or did you find it somewhere and pasted it here?