White: Magnus Carlsen Black: Vishy Anand
(World Chess Championship Round 6)
The World Chess Championship currently being played in Sochi has reached the halfway stage and Magnus Carlsen leads 3½-2½ after a fortunate win in Game 6. If, like me, you are looking for the best site to follow the action, then I recommend Chess Base (en.chessbase.com). Not only does it have detailed analysis of each game, photographs, short video extracts of the games – look for the fascinating close up of Carlsen’s hesitation in scoring after his blunder on move 26 – it also has an excellent post-match summary by Danny King and the opportunity for you to add comments like these:
” Worst WC match in the chess history? Anand seems to crack easily under pressure and Carlsen is far off his best play…”
“…and FIDE pays millions of dollars for these two for the patzer match.”
Judge for yourself by playing through the game above.