Magnus Carlsen wins Game 6; leads Viswanathan Anand 4-2
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[1] http://www.twitch.tv/chessnetwork
[2] http://chennai2013.fide.com/anand-carlsen-video-with-comment...
If Carslen wins, this will be a generation change in the chess world.
Given the popularity of chess in Asia, it is estimated that about a billion of people are following this match[1].
[1] http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2013-11/14/mag...
Provided the Wikipedia article is correct.
GM King makes this very point in his concluding remarks about the last game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9h1UqIcrUw He agrees that the purely physical advantage of Carlsen is starting to tell.
I wonder how Anand will come back after this, I recon if he does not get a good win in one of the following matches (he is white again on Monday) he won't be able to come back.
Ultimately I think Carlsen will win regardless - he's simply too strong and has been for a long time; if anything the title is overdue to be his.
Is it time for a new generation of competition between Carlsen and machines?
I enjoy the pragmatic stance of Anand on the matter http://www.chessquotes.com/player-anand :
There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things better than humans. And this imbalance remains. I no longer have any issues. It’s bit like asking an astronomer, does he mind that a telescope does all the work. He is used to it. It is just an incredible tool that you can use.
[1] http://en.chessbase.com/post/a-gro-miscarriage-of-justice-in...
Full paper:
http://en.chessbase.com/portals/4/files/news/2011/riis01.pdf
The links you posted are about Vasik Rajlich, who was banned from the World Computer Chess Championships over allegations of GPL violations.
There is a really young chinese kid that's a real rising chess-whiz, give him a few more years and he will give Carlsen a real challenge. It's time for the new generation of chess players indeed :)
You can see Anand getting tired from sitting in the same position some of the matches, moving about in his chair.
Phew, game #2 is a real blood bath: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1736633
If you're playing against a good player, at least you won't immediately cede the game in the opening.
The next step that I found helpful was to play against a computer, but to have a real board set up, where I could play through different options to see where they lead. Here you have no time limit, so you can really take your time. I found that if I forced myself to take a minimum of five minutes of doing this, I could regularly beat the computer (in this respect it seems a bit binary - at a given difficulty setting, the computer beats you every time, until one day you skill edges past the computer, and now you beat it every time - there doesn't seem to be a phase where the outcome is unsure).
These two tactics advanced my game to a point where I could win about 50% of the time on blitz-chess sites - the good players would still thrash me, and I would completely thrash novices. Getting better from that point seems more difficult though, and seems to revolve around sinking massive amounts of time into the habit. Increasing your opening library knowledge gets exponentially expensive. Improving your mid-game analysis speed also seems to be very slow (although this seems to be linear, not like the opening library). I stopped developing chess at this point because I realized that I wasn't prepared to spend the time needed to become a competitive chess player - I'm good enough that I can beat most non-regular chess players, and that's good enough for me...
Playing long games was fantastic for improving my chess. Most chess teachers also advocate long games as the best way to improve your game. The two ways I found to play long games, were to go to my local chess club and sign up for tournaments and to play in leagues on ICC, the internet chess club.