Everyone who watched Carlsen play speed chess in the last couple of years and saw him destroy, not just defeat but utterly destroy everybody else, knew that Caruanas chances to win the tiebreak were close to zero.
But is ideal in almost every other aspect of life.To be fair, Caruana had excelllent chances to win the WC. While Carlsen missed his chance in the opening round, Caruana had several very promising positions.
In the Kramnik case there is to be said that he has suffered from Arthritis for a long time. He either has to suffer excrutiating pain or has to take quite strong pain killers which obv. isn't ideal when you have to play high-level chess.
Western high level Go games when.Chess is too old and too well known.
There is nothing wrong with the current talents and they are very good, but don't represent the pinnacle of human brains either. Most people realize Chess sucks at this level and quit. The guys who remain are just the most stubborn ones.
This is wrong on some accounts. Actual difficulties qualifying a "greatest talent" aside, just compare Fischer's games with say, MC's. You will notice that MC plays far more accurate. Why he broke down exactly, we will never know.Is Carlsen just so good or are grandmasters too weak?
Imo chess started to decay since the time Fischer stopped playing. What had been a great gentlemen sport and then a great propaganda instrument for the Soviet Union became the ultimate test to memorize moves. The greatest talent the sport has ever seen went insane because he realized the game sucks. In 1975 he tried to challenge the rigidity of the game, succeeded and then never played another competiton because even he had exceeded his limits.
Chess finally died when Kasparov lost against Deep Blue, or rather against the the team that made Deep Bue.
I still watch chess because it's helpful to improve my own play but compared to Carlsen I completely suck. But what have I seen? I see 2 grandmasters agree on a draw or resign. I also see other grandmasters who comment what they think has been a good or bad move. But they are not sure because they need to wait until they can check it with a computer.
Chess is too old and too well known.
There is nothing wrong with the current talents and they are very good, but don't represent the pinnacle of human brains either. Most people realize Chess sucks at this level and quit. The guys who remain are just the most stubborn ones.
He is just too good. How good becomes even more apparent, if you watch his banterblitz games at chess24. Specifically I mean how fast he correctly assesses positions. Where other top-gms have to think for a while, he just knows.
That's not going to happen because the computer can beat the best human players now. And ever since they were beaten, they've started to play in a very strange way in the opening. They basically just invade at the 3-3 all the time which use to be frowned on, and is kind of a pussy way to play, but now that the computer has done it and thinks it's best all the pros do it. I kind of suspected Go would end up this way eventually once they've perfected play, but I guess I thought I'd never live to see it.Western high level Go games when.Chess is too old and too well known.
There is nothing wrong with the current talents and they are very good, but don't represent the pinnacle of human brains either. Most people realize Chess sucks at this level and quit. The guys who remain are just the most stubborn ones.
Yeah yeah, what a load of bull. I doubt he went on the toilet 50 times per game, and seeing his gameplay I doubt there could have been a comp involved. Round 2 is a good example. Topalov goes for the throat mercilessly, Kramnik collapses (lul computer assistance wtf?) and then Topalov spoils it all with 32 Qg6 instead of Rxg4->Qc7 next move when black can resign. Clearly, Topalovs inability to convert a forced mate must have been caused by Kramnik cheating.Remember Kramnik vs Topalov, when he made 50 trips to the toilet each game, and made his game winning move decisions in the toilet? The only place without video surveillance?
Just saying, maybe he didn't only play against the best computers of his day, maybe he formed a dark alliance.