Chess

[Gustaran]

No, unfortunately you have to be a premium member to watch on Playchess.

But I just found out that offcial site offers the option of "live video streaming - alternate server" which still runs smoothly.
http://chennai2013.fide.com/live-video-s...te-server/

BTW, according to Chessbase it's now a Gruenfeld fianchetto version (6.0-0 c6) by transposition.

[Sian]

IMHO the best Chess Commenters is probably Trent and Short

[uberfish]

If Nf3 was an attempt to surprise Anand it clearly didn't work.

[Sian]

looks rather drawish now

[Molach]

- Jeg var ikke så fornøyd med partiet. jeg var fornøyd med å kunne spille, men ikke med hvordan det gikk. Vanligvis utvikler partiene seg sakte, men her ble det raskt en krise, og det virket ikke som om noen av mulighetene mine var lovende. Jeg måtte dra i nødbremsen og gå for uavgjort, sier Magnus Carlsen i India.

"I wasn't very happy with the game. Normally these games develop slow, but here a crisis quickly developed, and it didn't seem like any of my possibilities were promising. I had to pull the emergency brake and play for a draw" says Magnus in India

(Probably poor translation)

[Sian]

i'm landing in a translation roughly the same Molach (although i only know Norwegian by mutual intelligibility ... although Bokmål such as this is much easier to read for me than Nynorsk) , so it's probably not all bad

[uberfish]

That was an anticlimax.

[Sian]

not sure i would call it an anticlimax ... a bit harsh word ... but it was somewhat of a wet dud

[Gustaran]

For the 1st game it was allright. Carlsen looked so nervous and once his advantage with White had evaporated he really couldn't do much except to repeat moves. That being said I hope both players are now accustomed to the venue and we are going to see more exciting chess tomorrow.

[Gustaran]

So much for long 6 hour games with a lot of grinding in the endgame...