World Chess Championship 2023 Game 7 live: It’s even-steven between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren
World Chess Championship 2023: The sixth game of the World Chess Championship match ended with a convincing victory of Ding Liren over Ian Nepomniachtchi, to even the score to 3:3. The game ended after 44 moves and four hours of play.
The World Chess Championship match between Ding Liren and Ian Nepomniachtchi has already produced four decisive results in just the first six games, something which was last seen in the Korchnoi-Karpov match of 1981 and the legendary 1972 match between Spassky and Fischer. Both players are setting the stage for an unpredictable and exciting fight not seen for a long time in a chess match.
My role to bridge gap between computer screen and what a player experiences at the table: Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan Anand is one of the commentators for the World Chess Championships. (File)
One of the world’s greatest chess minds who, when seated across the board, could see well into the future is consumed a nagging fear that, from behind the microphone, he’d ‘miss something obvious that everyone in the world can see’.
“My fear,” says Viswanathan Anand, “is I’m sitting there rambling and then they play something (else)… I’d be slightly embarrassed. That’s the danger of not having a computer. One of the things I tried in Dubai (during the 2021 World Championship) and I stuck to here was almost never consulting a computer.”
These fears, as it turns out, have proven unfounded. In fact, the five-time world champion almost flawlessly predicts moves and foresees the ‘breakdown of thoughts’ of champions and challengers alike with his quick-witted analysis, typical self-effacing humour, and without any help from the supercomputers. [Read Full Interview]
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