12/8/2018 – Ten days on from the end of the World Championship and the match is still very much in the news. In a previous report, we presented a 31-minute interview with five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand and his take on the games played in London. Sagar Shah of ChessBase India transcribed the highlights of his commentary which we’ve converted to a ChessBase interactive game viewer, so you could easily replay and analyse while listening to Vishy. Today we continue with games 7–12. Learn and enjoy.
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Part 2
It was our last day of the "one-year homeless journey" that we (Amruta and I) had begun on 27th of November, 2017, and what better thing to do than to interview the absolute best chess player of India and one of the best in the world, five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand. After his success at the Tata Steel Chess India Blitz 2018, Vishy has a few days off before he will once again be in action at the World Rapid and Blitz 2018. We were able to catch him at his home in Kotturpuram, Chennai, where he spent a solid half an hour explaining all the intricacies of the World Championship Match 2018.
In conversation with Vishy Anand at his residence in Chennai | Photo: Amruta Mokal
Vishy Anand recaps the entire 12 classical games in 31 minutes
The video starts at 13m 22s with game seven, continuing from the previous report
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1.d4Nf62.Nf3d53.c4e64.Nc3Be75.Bf40-06.e3c57.dxc5Bxc58.Qc2Nc69.a3Qa510.Nd2Qd8The back and forth idea of Qd8-a5-d8 in QGD
Fabiano found the
relatively new idea of moving his queen back to d8 from a5. We asked Anand
about this idea of Fabiano to play Qd8 to a5 and then when White retreats his
knight to d2, to go back to d8. Shouldn't this manoeuvre, which seems to waste
a lot of time, give White a clear way for advantage? Doesn't classical wisdom
say so? Anand: Why should White have a clear advantage? Even he has moved his
knight back to d2! It's interesting to note that these Nd2-b3 plans are the
most effective when the black queen is on a5. But you just go back to d8 and
ask what is your knight doing on d2. I have stopped trying to understand chess
by the logic you mentioned, because the computer keeps pointing out exceptions.
I remember having conversations with my second where he would tell me about a
move and I would say this has been played in 100 games before with an extra
tempo. How can this move make sense? But I realized that chess doesn't seem to
lend itself to that sort of logic. If you can make use of the extra tempo,
good for you. But more often than not you just study the new position on its
own merits. If it works, it works! That was always the joke in our team. If
someone said something illogical, and we couldn't refute it, we had to agree
it works!11.Nb3Bb612.Be2Qe713.Bg5dxc414.Nd2Ne515.0-0Bd716.Bf4Ng617.Bg3Bc618.Nxc4Bc719.Rfd1Rfd820.Rxd8+Rxd821.Rd1Rxd1+22.Qxd1Nd523.Qd4Nxc324.Qxc3Bxg325.hxg3Qd726.Bd3b627.f3Bb728.Bxg6hxg629.e4Qc730.e5Qc5+31.Kh2Ba632.Nd6Qxc333.bxc3f634.f4Kf835.Kg1Ke736.Kf2Kd737.Ke3Bf138.Kf2Ba639.Ke3Bf140.Kf2½–½
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Coming soon: part three of the interview, with Anand's take on the tiebreak!
Special thanks to ChessBase India for providing this video. There are hundreds of videos on their very successful ChessBase India YouTube Channel, and we are going to make vigorous use of them in the future.
Sagar ShahSagar is an International Master from India with two GM norms. He loves to cover chess tournaments, as that helps him understand and improve at the game he loves so much. He is the co-founder and CEO of ChessBase India, the biggest chess news portal in the country. His YouTube channel has over a million subscribers, and to date close to a billion views. ChessBase India is the sole distributor of ChessBase products in India and seven adjoining countries, where the software is available at a 60% discount. compared to International prices.
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