Chess is An Arms Race: Anand

In less then 2 weeks, the world championship of chess will begin at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn. The build up to this event has been tense and there have been a few "psychological tricks" played by the the former World Champion - Vladimir Kramnik, while the current world champion Vishwanathan Anand, has quitely parried these away saying that "As a champion you should learn to play all formats and accept the results."

This was some months earlier. Since then things have been very quiet and both players have suffered severe defeats at the hands of the other grandmasters at the Masters Tournament in Bilbao for Anand and at the Tal Memorial for Vladimir Kramnik. Both Anand and Kramnik have now dropped out of the top 3 in chess rankings, which has been taken over by Topalov, Morozevich and Ivanchuk.

Anand in a recent interview to the German Magazine Spiegel, likened chess to an arms race, due to the ever increasing influence of technology computer applications. So let the Championship begin.!

Category: Chess , World Chess Championship 2008