Anand NOT in his best form. He tied 6-6, Score should have been 7-5 by his standard. Considering all this, Anand is likely to Loose Rapid Fire , but we can hope for his victory. See you here at 1.00PM , thanks all.
the stats presented of their rapid/blitz games is not quite correct i think. there's perhaps a blitz game unaccounted for , one of the two that vishy played against gelfy in 2000 knockout event, that would take the tally to 8 (instead of the 7 given) , plus the rapid figure of 28 games is not correct either. plus, about 10 of those games were blindfold, not a regular rapid game. anyway, yes anand does have a good plus against gelfand in both these formats.
Re: Re: Re: Anand is the 2nd best player in the history
by acommentor on May 30, 2012 09:33 AM
Yeah, Garry Kasparov must be the strongest if we have to do a 'single selection'. But we must not forget that Garry rose to that standard because of the chess luminaries such as Mikhail Botwinnik, Jose Capablanca...
Re: Re: Re: Re: Anand is the 2nd best player in the history
by Prasheel on May 30, 2012 02:41 PM
but anand have never won against garry since 1996(?8)...hence if anand is no2 then no 1 must be garry
Re: Anand is the 2nd best player in the history
by abc_xyz abc_xyz on May 30, 2012 02:45 PM
Bobby Fisher and Vishy Anand are two of the greatest players to have emerged outside of USSR.
