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There's essentially a whole series of Kasparov and Karpov commentary on their 1990 match. Starts with http://youtube.com/watch?v=VUqx5_EsZ1s Not as detailed as the books but very interesting to see their human side in addition to pure analysis. At that time they were a class above everyone else and a privilege to get a peek into what only the 2 of them really understood.

For the more degenerate blitz chess players out there, here's a great one.

Garry Kasparov (former world champion) vs Vishy Anand (former world champion) in blitz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs2ucWQjmv0&;

That video is incredibly frustrating. They keep switching the camera away from the board so you have no idea what's going on.

Vishy Anand is the current world champion.

I don't believe he is ranked 1 in the world anymore. Magnus Carlsen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Carlsen) I think is #1.

That's right, but FIDE ratings are independent of the person who owns the title of "World Chess Champion". Vishy currently holds that title.

This is true. I believe Topalov was the last person to challenge Vishy for Chess Champion. Carlsen helped Vishy prepare for the match. Which, makes it seem like he's not particularly interested in the title.

That's correct, my mistake.

I'm watching Karpov on the Fischer-Spassky match at the bottom of that page, and he kinda comes off as a dick. Talking about himself at the start, and putting down Spassky.

Up-vote if you spend waaaaay too much time playing chess.

Sometimes I get into this "mental trench" and can spend several hours a day playing against people all over the world. In a strange way it sometimes helps me solve programming problems. Not sure how that works as it seems that I am thinking about the problem while playing fairly intense games. Maybe it simply helps get you into a flow state?

A flow state by definition is when you only focus on the thing you are currently working on. I would say this is quite the opposite. You are busy with something else, but your mind subconsciously continues to think about the problem. Just like when you suddenly think of the solution for a problem, while standing under the shower. Sometimes you just need to get away from the problem to solve it.

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