Magnus Carlsen beats the World |
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| Friday, 10 September 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Just like Natalia predicted, Magnus Carlsen has defeated the World quite impressively in a 44-move game that lasted over 3 hours. The World team found themselves in an inferior position right from the opening and didn't have any real chances for a comeback throughout the game. Here's how the encounter proceeded: The main pros of the event: + excellent publicity for chess, Magnus Carlsen, G-Star and Chess.com + a chance for people all over the world to feel what is is like to be facing the #1 in chess + entertaining commentary and great guests (Liv Tyler, Jen Shahade, etc.) The main cons: - people could only vote for the moves suggested by Nakamura, Polgar and Vachier-Lagrave. It would have been better if they had had a chance to choose ANY move they liked - the audio and video kept disappearing from time to time - low level of interaction: no team discussion, no audio/video updates from the GMs - at the beginning of the game Garry Kasparov seemed to be quite interested and even started acting like a 4th expert. However, after a few inaccurate moves he resorted to talking about chess politics and begging the world to resign over and over again. While it's perfectly understandable that the arguably best chess player ever isn't thrilled by watching a strategically lost game being played out, he could have had more patience and tried to make the atmosphere more pleasant for the World team Overall, this has been a unique, one of a kind challenge. Congratulations to Magnus Carlsen for winning the game, and to the organizers for making this great chess event possible! 
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