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Thank you Vishy Anand for your contribution to the Royal Game. Live long and prosper!
I hope he will stay and play longer. Though not much motivation for him. Interesting, that he played against these World Champions - Kasparov, Karpov, Kramnik, Topalov, and Carlsen - in the World Championships. He has enough stories for kids to tell.
Q: (FIDE Press Officer) Once again congratulations on your victory. Can you say about the last game?
A: (Magnus Carlsen) I was trying to play solidly in the opening. And I am pretty happy with what I got. Very solid position. No weaknesses. As the game went on he started to drift a bit I thought as long as there is no risk I should try and win it. At some point after the time control, the variations were simply getting too complicated. So I decided to shut it down and force a draw. I think it was a nice fight and a worthy end to the match.
Q: (FIDE Press Officer) One additional question about the game. On move 30, you took on d6. Could you play instead Nc3? Some spectators were asking that.
A: When I took on d6 I missed something simple. I thought I was just winning with that. If I knew this move wasn’t so good I would have taken some more time and perhaps found a better move and put even more pressure on him. That wasn’t terribly impressive. Anyway, it doesn’t feel very important now.
Q: (FIDE Press Officer) How do you feel to get this title?
A: (Magnus Carlsen) It feels good. It has been tough. Both here and in London. I have been treated very well here in India. I have been made to feel very comfortable and in general at some point I started to settle in and got the match into my strength towards the end. I think it has been a great event. I am really honoured and happy to have won it.
Q: (Paul Truong, USA) Fans are dying to know who are your seconds? Will we get them now?
A: (Magnus Carlsen) It is no secret that Norwegian Grand Master Ludvig Hammer has been working with me. For me he has done a great job as have the others who helped me. I am grateful to them for their hard work.
Q: (Pratiksha Ghildial, BBC TV) Chess is a very niche game. Probably 90% of the audience even don’t understand it. Do you think someone like you, who is young and dynamic can change that? Like broaden the appeal of the game.
A: (Magnus Carlsen) I think we see some signs of that in Norway. The match was shown on television. I know that a lot of people who don’t play chess found it very interesting to follow. I really hope that this can cause some positives for the chess buffs in Norway and worldwide.
Q: Which was the turning point in this match?
A: (Magnus Carlsen) I think game three, game four. That’s the key. Game three was vulnerable moment for me. Really in game three and four I could sense that he was vulnerable as well. From that moment on I settled in and stopped worrying about the occasion and started playing chess as I usually do. That worked out pretty well.
Q: (Kristian Madsen, Politiken) Your old coach (Simen) Agdestein said you radiated nervousness during the first few games. How is the spectacle of playing in the world championship affect your nerves contrary to ordinary tournaments?
A: Magnus Carlsen) As I said the first couple of games – the second game was a normal draw with black. But the first and third games I was little bit nervous and perhaps not quite ready for this big occasion. After game three and four I managed to settle in. I realised that I don’t have to do differently from what I usually do. And that was the turning point.
Q: (K Keerthivasan, The Hindu) Magnus, looking ahead, you are the world champion now. How important is the Chess Olympiad and it is happening in your own country (in 2014)?
A: (Magnus Carlsen) I hope it is going to be a great event. I hope it will bring some attention to chess in the northern Norway and worldwide. As a team we don’t have too high ambitions. We want to do well. It is going to fun to play for my home country again. It has been a long time there.
Q: (T.N. Ragu, Deccan Chronicle) When you were here in Chennai in August we asked about your girlfriend. You said you mind was only on the world championship. Now you have won it. Can you reveal the name of the lady in your life?
A: (Magnus Carlsen) We will see.
Q: (Ebenezer Joseph, Shubsandesh TV) Generally the trend is to work on the openings. Here you have worked on the endgames and tactics in one particular game. Your comments on that.
A: (Magnus Carlsen) Really I work on the openings before the tournament. I think the endgame, middlegame, calculating stuff it comes mostly with the tournament practice. In that sense I didn’t do anything…
Q: Magnus, it seems that Vishy was not at his very best. He was nervous. He made one big blunder and some other mistakes. To what extend you think you were responsible for it depending upon the situation?
A: (Magnus Carlsen) I would like to take some responsibility for his mistakes. That’s for sure. It’s been like that for me for a long time. I just play and people crack under pressure. Even in world championship. That is what the history shows. We have to keep on pushing. Eventually, usually things go right. Obviously the blunders that he made, each of them are of course unusual, but really is when put under pressure. That is what I really wanted to do in this match. Make him sit at the board and play for long time.
Q: (Amit Karmarkar, The Times of India) How much of the battle was on the board and off the board?
A: (Magnus Carlsen) I think most of the games were decided on the board. I did not feel too much of the psychological warfare. May be there was some. I did not notice it.
Q: () You won the world championship in India. Lot of people are watching you. What is your comments for the Indian viewers from your side?
A: (Magnus Carlsen) I have been so happy with the way I had been treated here. Everything has been top notch. My every wish has been attended to. For my team as well. It has been beyond expectations that I have experienced in other places. Thank you very much. I am sorry (that Anand lost) that the match turned out the way it did.
Further Viewers’ Comments on the Match
- Congratulation MC, today you totally ruined all my efforts to do work. Was so nervous before that ending, but you got it right again. As amazed at those calculating skills as i was after game 9.
- Let's face it - this match was really boring because Anand played way too safe (Which backfired) and also Anand was not the best person to challenge Carlsen at this time. I would've much rather seen someone like Nakamura play Carlsen, even just for the entertainment value. Carlsen would've definitely won but I;m sure Naka would've won a match or two and kept things interesting. On a scale of 1-10 in terms of excitement, this match was about a 2
- A day of joy for me, and this is why. My first years as a club player coincided with the rise of Kasparov and the excitement it created throughout the chess community (I was too young to have experienced the Fischer craze first hand); while I did have a great deal of respect for Karpov and his iron grip on the chess crown, it was natural to me and my friends to side with the young genius (and there was also the added dimension of "sticking it to the Man", i.e. the Soviet establishment). It would not be a huge over-statement to say he was the "hero" of our generation of players. When Kasparov lost the title, I was disappointed. Who was this Kramnik, anyway? For years, Kasparov had been untouchable, and this was a tremendous anticlimax. In the following years, the chess world, and the title of World Champion itself, seemed to sink further into controversy and confusion, and at the same time, I became less active over the board - partly for other reasons, but also due to a fading interest, not in the game itself, but in competing and following top-level chess. I thought Shirov was a beacon of hope when he emerged, but he didn't make it all the way Ponomariov? Khalifman?! I didn't much care what was going on anymore.
One day, I think it must have been in 2002 (I could be wrong), when a small tournament was going on, a friend of mine who was more active than I said I had to come see this kid from Norway play, which I did. He was about 2300-something at the time; I watched him beat a local player. I believe he ended up 2nd behind the top-rated GM. It was obvious that he was a great talent, but no further conclusion could really be drawn from his performance there. Then I started noticing his name again and again in tournaments - bigger and bigger tournaments - almost toppling Kasparov in a rapid in Iceland one day, making GM the next - and the real magnitude of his talent started to dawn on me. (I can't deny there was an extra appeal in that he was from near my little corner of the world, too.) So, I started following tournaments again. It was way easier now too, of course, with live internet broadcasting being more and more available. And he delivered. It was the same feeling as back in the day, that something special was going on, something new. But it wasn't just about cheering for Carlsen. There were other players around. I studied the games of Kramnik and came to appreciate what a genius he is - a worthy champion, even if I wouldn't see it at the time. Anand! Radjabov, Karjakin, Aronian, all these great names, and great games.
And so, now the day has really come. The kid made it. It remains to be seen how long his reign will last; with hard work I think it will be a while, but you never know; young talents keep popping up, most fade away, some turn out to be the real thing. Will it be Caruana next, or Wei Yi? Right now, though, Magnus is on top of the world, and very deservedly so - only a fool will deny that he is currently the world's strongest player.
So congratulations, Magnus Carlsen, World Chess Champion, and thank you for getting me excited about top-level chess again! Long live!
There's been a lot of comment on the inane questions during the press conferences... so bad that even the admirably composed Anand gave a sarcastic answer (once, right after a very tough loss).
I just read a reprint of a 1993 interview with him that shows he's been putting up with this for decades. Here the interviewer is Cathy Forbes:
VA The first time I played a Grandmaster tournament, in Calcutta in '86, I missed the norm by half a point. I needed to win the last game, and I drew it. But I was Black.
CF Did you try to win?
VA (Quietly exasperated) What do you think?
CF I just wonder how hard you tried.
VA Obviously, I tried very hard, but my chess was simply such that I couldn't force matters so easily...
Try to imagine Kamsky's or Topalov's reaction to that sort of insinuated disrespect: you're talented but lazy, do you even try to win?
But Anand, who was in his early 20s, actually stayed and continued the very long (and interesting) interview. It has lots of info about his early life, and given that we're looking back on his World Championship days, it has a rare mix of optimism an elegy.
Agreed Gordon - Anand has been a model champion. He is the only champ to win the title via knockout, round robin and match play. He was a much more active champion than Kramnik, although looking at the state of things right now it is hard to imagine Anand beating Kramnik 3-1 in a 12 game match any time soon.
Carlsen is simply the best! I cannot wait for the candidates' tournament. Will it be Aronian or Kramnik, or someone else? I would love to be wrong, but I doubt we will see Anand challenging for the title again.
I thought the Match was over and the ceremonies would be today, according to the regs:
10.3 The Closing Ceremony shall take place not later than one day after the end of the event and the participants are required to take part. The Organizer shall provide a victory garland, a trophy and a gold medal for the winner and a silver medal for the loser. Anthem of the winner’s country, FIDE Anthem and Anthem of the hosting country shall be played.
But it has been announced on the Match website that The Prize Giving ceremony will take place at the Ballroom of Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chennai on Monday November 25, 2013 at 12.15 p.m.
According to the schedule on the official web site http://chennai2013.fide.com/schedule/
game 11 was to be held Sunday, Nov. 24; game 12 Tuesday, Nov. 26, and the award ceremonies on Thursday, Nov. 28.
I wonder if people who bought tickets for games 11 and 12 will get their money back? :-)
(from the official regulations 3.6.1 http://cdn.fide.com/wp-content/uploa...match_2013.pdf : " If the winner scores 6.5 points in less than 12 games then the organizer can re-schedule the Closing Ceremony for an earlier date.")
Vlad Dobrich:
"Did anyone here win money betting on Carlsen? If so, how much did you bet and how much won? I was never clear what the betting line was."
I don't gamble on Chess games. Mostly I don't even care who wins and only the games interest me. Too many years being an arbiter, I guess. I only cheer for Canadian players.
Did I ask for "who doesn't bet?" Your response is off-topic. You forgot to tell us about all the correspondence chess tournaments you directed over the decades -for which I am grateful. :)
Last edited by Vlad Dobrich; Saturday, 23rd November, 2013, 01:13 PM.
The way the match went gave (at least to me) the feeling that it was the match that never happened. One creative game ended with a terrible blunder. Anand beat himself and generated far less problems for Carlsen then an out of form Radjabov generated in London in the Candidates.
That being said, Carlsen deserves the title because of his string of results and his Nadal-like determination to win any game.
So the question is where will they go from here? Will Anand recover and make his way back to challenge the Champ? Will Carlsen continue his chess career or, as many others from his generation, including Canadian GMs, will pursue other things in life? I do not dare to guess.
Originally posted by Laurentiu GrigorescuView Post
The way the match went gave (at least to me) the feeling that it was the match that never happened. One creative game ended with a terrible blunder. Anand beat himself and generated far less problems for Carlsen then an out of form Radjabov generated in London in the Candidates.
That being said, Carlsen deserves the title because of his string of results and his Nadal-like determination to win any game.
So the question is where will they go from here? Will Anand recover and make his way back to challenge the Champ? Will Carlsen continue his chess career or, as many others from his generation, including Canadian GMs, will pursue other things in life? I do not dare to guess.
Wouldn't that be something? A Fischer-like meteoric rise to the top of chess, and an equally-Fischer-like disappearance from chess? Leaving who, Kramnik at the top? Gelfand maybe? Definitely not Anand, I do believe his days as even a contender are done.
Maybe Carlsen will go work for Goldman Sachs... and become a rogue trader, making up for his boring chess life.
In the following clip, substitute "professional chess playing" for "chartered accountancy". Especially at the very end!
Originally posted by Laurentiu GrigorescuView Post
So the question is where will they go from here? Will Anand recover and make his way back to challenge the Champ? Will Carlsen continue his chess career or, as many others from his generation, including Canadian GMs, will pursue other things in life? I do not dare to guess.
After the match we also saw the reason behind the smile on Magnus' face, which appeared after Anand has mentioned his seconds (see the video from the press-conference before the match). There was almost no use of Vishy's opening experts, as Magnus was jumping from sideline to a sideline, refusing to enter a single critical variation even at cost of his position (e.g. game 9). I hope Anand will participate in the candidates and make use of all the Semi-slav and Berlin files that otherwise could go down the trash after this match.
There is also a lot to be said about Magnus' philosophy towards the game. A very strong player, with incredible understanding, ability to calculate and sharp tactical vision, his strength lies in actually PLAYING the game. His main idea is to take his opponent out of their comfort zone and play, play, play until the pressure gets too high and opponents start to err.
Take them out of book and beat them. Or, at least, out of their comfort zone, as Giri puts it.
Did anyone here win money betting on Carlsen? If so, how much did you bet and how much won? I was never clear what the betting line was.
I looked at the odds and didn't like any of them. Carlsen was an overwhelming favorite; about 70-75% to win. I considered a couple of the more esoteric bets, but didn't go for it due to too much vig, and I would have lost had I taken either of my preferred ones (I had thought about betting Anand tying/winning the 12 regulation games at 2-1 odds, or for game 1 to be over 42.5 moves).
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