The World Championship Predictions

Originally posted by 93confirmed

The tiebreaks are on Wednesday at 15:00h Moscow time (03:00h CEST, 07 a.m. New Your) and will consist of four 25mins+10s rapid games, then five pairs of 5min + 3s blitz, then sudden death.

Originally posted by Wilfriedva
yes it's wednesday

they need another rest day 😕

it'll be over when I get home from work

bleh 🙁

Sounds like the tiebreaker games start at the same time as the rest of the match - 7:00am eastern (NYC).

Originally posted by 93confirmed
Sounds like the tiebreaker games start at the same time as the rest of the match - 7:00am eastern (NYC).

Originally posted by Kegge
Nope. It starts three hours earlier.

There is no chess player who has normal sleeping rhythm.
Almost all of them are insomniacs, unsocial weirdos, lunatics and circus attractions.

Source:
1 lives and destinies of most of World Champions and extra strong GM's
2 Vladimir Nabokov's Luzhin's Defense
3 biased statistic sample

The exceptions are amateurs and chess enthusiasts&lovers and coaches (*"amateur" means though exactly this - lover, but that's the point: an amateur LOVES chess and professional became crazy because he is serving to a compulsive need< they hate chess ---), who use chess as a mean of socialization (like they are treating delinquents).

Anyways, those two sleepyheads are in trouble.

First game of the tie-breaks ends in a draw 😀

Anand has time on his side in 2nd game. I hope this game doesn't end like the previous one.

As of move 23, Anand is a pawn up but it looks like he's dropping his h-pawn. Could well be another draw.

move 30: Anand has avoided losing his h-pawn but I hate his position - he may even lose if Gelfand gets both his rooks onto the 7th rank.

move 34: looking a little better for Anand again, and, more importantly, Gelfand has run out of time. He's living on his increment from now on. No time to think about any difficult choice which crops up.

Anand wins! Gelfand was short on time as well... But in the end it looked convincing!😏

God knows this match needed some excitement, but it was no way to decide the World Championship. This is the first time Anand has been ahead and I fully expect him to do his best impression of a tortoise for the final two games.

Gelfand missed his chances in game 3. I don`t believe he will be able to win the last game.

Ummm....am I missing something or did Anand agree to a draw in an at least equal (but complex) position with Gelfand only having 45 seconds on his clock?

Originally posted by 93confirmed
Ummm....am I missing something or did Anand agree to a draw in an at least equal (but complex) position with Gelfand only having [b]45 seconds on his clock?[/b]