Kramnik just blew a superior position in the World Chess Championship

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25 points·mnemonicsloth··13 comments

Hi, I welcome chess news here, thank you for reminding that WCC is here!. Anyway, mnemonicsloth, are you sure with your title? At which point do you see Kramnik's position superior?

It looks as if Kramnik blundered at 29. ... Nxd4 based on analysis (some of which can be seen at: http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/files/kramnik_anand_2008_5.h... ) but I agree that their wasn't much advantage either way until then. Of course, I'm pretty crappy chess player.

What's the least well known, but most impressive, intellectual game that has a dedicated following?

Define "intellectual game".

Success depends on a strong mind vs a strong body. A combination of the two would also work, as long as the emphasis is still on the mind.

How about Hex? A very intellectual game, some curious mathematical theorems around it, and there is at least the dedicated following of me. Unfortunately there isn't anywhere to play online that I know of - you used to be able to play at Playsite.

It does have a wiki -

http://www.hexwiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Blindfold Go meets those criteria pretty well.

My friend who was a missionary in South Korea taught me to play Janggi which is really quite fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janggi

How about mafia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_village_murder_mystery_game

What does it matter? Rybka 3.0 (rated well over 3000) could crush them both easily.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybka

can anyone here actually visualize the chess notation? I always have to set up a board <feeling dumb>

At the bottom of the page there is a chess player that lets you step through the game.

Siam's going to be the witness to the ultimate test of cerebral fitness

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