Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Anand a draw away from the world title

Anand is a draw away from winning the world title in chess. The next match is today.

Looking back, I wonder when I lost interest in chess and I think it has to do something with explaining chess like this report on Monday's match below.

"1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 c5 5. g3 cxd4 6. Nxd4 O-O 7. Bg2 d5 8. cxd5 Nxd5 9. Qb3 Qa5 10. Bd2 Nc6 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. O-O Bxc3 13. bxc3 Ba6 14. Rfd1 Qc5 15. e4 Bc4 16. Qa4 Nb6 17. Qb4 Qh5 18. Re1 c5 19. Qa5 Rfc8 20. Be3 Be2 21. Bf4 e5 22. Be3 Bg4 23. Qa6 f6 24. a4 Qf7 25. Bf1 Be6 26. Rab1 c4 27. a5 Na4 28. Rb7 Qe8 29. Qd6 1-0"

"Kramnik adopted an aggressive posture in the Nimzo Indian defence from the Indian. The game went into the three knights defence"

Just the fact that you can have a three knight defence when you have only 2 knights stuns me.
And the fact that you have an upper case and lower case B to explain moves is alarming.
That you have N,Q,R etc. when you have a-h 1-8 on the board only

It is a brutal blow to the ego that I am unable to fathom this. I console myself with the fact that I am unwilling to take the time to understand what on earth they mean. A humble request to the chess fraternity to communicate moves and technique in a more understandable form.

2 comments:

straight point said...

...and he gets it in style...

the undisputed king of all form of chess...

great moment for him and india!!

Anonymous said...

good show by him!