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Schizotypal personality disorder is a personality disorder characterized by odd behaviors, beliefs, thoughts, and difficulties in social situations. People with personality disorders are not aware that their thoughts and behaviors are inappropriate.
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Schizotypal personality disorder is more common in men. People who have relatives with schizophrenia may have an increased chance of developing schizotypal personality disorder.
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By Paul Myerberg // May 3, 2011
Akron has bounced back before — the city, that is. Once a factory town, defined by its rubber production at companies like Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone and General Tire, Akron has seen its economy rejuvenated over the last decade thanks to its investment in polymer research. Perhaps the Zips can follow the same formula: times were tough last fall, when the team seemed to rebel against its first-year coach, but if the Zips can reload behind this staff's stellar recruiting, maybe the future won't be as bleak as it seems today. As at Memphis, profiled yesterday, the hope is that Akron — the team, that is — has fallen as low as it can go. Akron — the city and the team — hope that's the case.
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- Sept. 17
at Cincinnati
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- Oct. 22
- Oct. 29
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Kent State
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at Buffalo
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at W. Michigan
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Ianello is not the kind of coach capable of a one-season turnaround, and I believe the university understands this. Instead, thanks to his talent in recruiting, Ianello is a hire designed to pay dividends down the road, perhaps as early as year two but more likely an additional year down the road. Yet I don't think his first team will be very good, unfortunately. There remain many questions on offense, beginning at quarterback and extending to a thin receiver corps. The defense is strong through the front seven, but there remain concerns in the secondary. I think Akron is good enough to remain out of the East cellar, but I don't have the Zips finishing higher than fourth in the division. If Ianello can continue to excel in recruiting, Akron won't be down for long.
2010 recap
In a nutshell The Zips hadn't been this bad since 1994-95, the program's final season under Gerry Faust and first under Lee Owens. Just how bad were they? Pretty bad: awful defensively, terrible offensively, the Zips were rarely competitive through the first two months — except against the F.C.S. — before mounting a slight run towards respectability in November. In its final three games, Akron lost in overtime to Ball State, played eventual conference champion Miami (Ohio) tight and beat lowly Buffalo, perhaps signaling that better days lie ahead. There were bigger issues than just on-field losses, however: there were losses off the field, as several players with eligibility left opted to leave the program rather than hang around.
High point Staring the program's first winless season in nearly 60 years in the face, the Zips rallied together to defeat Buffalo, 22-14, to end the regular season. There's something to be said of finishing the season on a high note, even if the victory was preceded by 11 consecutive losses.
Low point When did we know something was amiss? Try on the second Saturday of September, when the Zips lost in overtime, 38-37, to Gardner-Webb. This was a Gardner-Webb team that would finish 4-7 in the F.C.S. yet managed to outplay Akron, which would then go on to lose by margins big and small before knocking off the Bulls in the season finale.
Tidbit The Zips finished in the bottom 20 nationally in the following categories last fall: scoring offense, rushing offense, passing offense, total offense, punt returns, kick returns, punting, extra-points made, first downs, tackles for loss, interceptions, third down conversions, scoring defense, passing defense, total defense and fourth down defense. The Zips finished in the top half of the country nationally in only a handful of categories: 43rd in penalties, 37th in punt return defense, 47th in kick return defense, 58th in tackles for loss allowed and 25th in fumbles lost.
Tidbit (close-to-home edition) One Buckeye State program will play nine of its games in the State of Ohio, and no, it's not the Buckeyes. It's the Zips, who will cross the state border only to face Eastern Michigan, Buffalo and Western Michigan; prior to Nov. 19, the Zips play 9 of 10 games close to home.
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4 LB Chase Blackburn (New York Giants), CB Reggie Corner (Buffalo), QB Charlie Frye (Oakland), WR Domenik Hixon (New York Giants).
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Best players in Akron Aeros history — other options below
1. OF Manny Ramirez.
2. 3B Jim Thome.
3. OF Albert Belle.
4. P C.C. Sabathia.
5. P Charles Nagy.
Rob Ianello (Catholic '87), 1-11 after one year with the Zips. He arrived in Akron after serving five seasons at Notre Dame, where he coached the wide receivers and served as the team's recruiting coordinator. If you are familiar with Ianello for one reason, it is in this latter capacity. Widely recognized as one of the nation's top recruiters — if not the best recruiter in the country altogether — Ianello was responsible for reeling in countless numbers of Notre Dame's highly-touted recruits during the Charlie Weis era, helping the team rebuild a roster largely devoid of talent following the firing of Ty Willingham late in 2004. Ianello also carried the assistant head coach tag during the 2009 season; after Weis was fired, Ianello took charge of a program still unsure of its bowl future. His experience in the Midwest includes two separate stints at Wisconsin. From 2003-4, Ianello coached the U.W. tight ends and served as the recruiting coordinator. An earlier stint, from 1990-91, saw Ianello hold only the recruiting coordinator title. Are you seeing a trend here? There's more: Ianello held the same position at Arizona from 1994-96 and from 1997-2002, coaching the Arizona wide receivers during his second stint in Tucson. Here's what we know about Ianello: he can recruit, potentially helping Akron keep some of the deep talent in the Buckeye state at home; he can aid in the development of Akron's young offensive skill players; and he has experience under some well-known names in the coaching profession — Barry Alvarez, Dick Tomey and Charlie Weis. Let's see if his resume will translate into success with a program tired of spending each season lagging behind in the MAC.
Tidbit (coaching edition) Curt Mallory's tenure as Akron's defensive coordinator lasted all of one season; he's now at Michigan, coaching the secondary for Brady Hoke. Mallory will be replaced by former Wisconsin, Nebraska and Minnesota defensive coordinator Kevin Cosgrove, who brings experience, a prior relationship with Ianello — thanks to the pair's work at Wisconsin — and significant questions about his ability to put a competent defense on the field. The last few years haven't been kind to Cosgrove, both with the Cornhuskers and Golden Gophers, so the jury is out whether he can help Akron improve on the defensive side of the ball.
Players to watch
Good news, bad news with running back Broderick Alexander: he's by far the most experienced running back on Akron's roster, but he needs to show he's healthy after missing all of last season following an Achilles tear. Reports from the spring said he's ready to go, which is great news for a backfield looking to replace more than 1,300 yards of production lost following the graduation of Alex Allen and Nate Burney. Two young faces, redshirt freshman Jawon Chisolm and January addition Marvin Staten, will battle for snaps, and there should be plenty of carries to go around.
There's a similar story at receiver. Any damage that was done in the passing game came about thanks to departed starters Jeremy LaFrance and Jalil Carter; the duo combined to make 62 grabs for 772 yards, which constituted the majority of Akron's receiving totals. Wide receivers coach Frisman Jackson has his work cut out for him, but he did single out four players who stepped up their games during the spring.
One was sophomore Keith Sconiers, who played sparingly as a true freshman last fall but has thus far done a nice job stepping into the void left by the seniors' departure. The Zips would also get a significant boost from having a healthy Antoine Russell — another sophomore — who could give this offense a deep threat; more big-play ability might come from former JUCO transfer Marquelo Suel, who redshirted last fall. Looking for a craftier possession receiver? Junior Anthony Meriweather will have the opportunity to grab that role, though like the rest of the receiver corps, he's unproven.
The offensive line has an issue with numbers, but Akron can at least put together a starting group with experience, which should count for something. There will be some movement up front: Mitch Straight moves from left guard to left tackle; Patrick McCloskey from right to left guard; and Zac Kasparek will find a home at right guard after playing at all three interior spots last fall. That leaves Jake Anderson remaining at home at right guard and, most likely, Adam Bice replacing Mike Ward at center. It's not a great group, nor deep — though five recruiting additions might help — but the Zips could be improved if injuries don't become an issue.
Hasan Hazime will need to step up: not merely because he's now a senior, but so to help the Zips replace fellow end Shawn Lemon, the team leader in sacks and tackles for loss. Hazime helped in those categories, finishing a distant second to Lemon, but he'll need to build upon two successful seasons in the starting lineup to help Akron beef up a paltry pass rush hampered further by Lemon's departure. So who replaces Lemon? It should be sophomore Nico Caponi, a second-teamer last fall who currently inhabits Lemon's rush end spot.
It's all about Brian Wagner in the middle. Yeah, he's a bit smaller than your typical middle linebacker, but that doesn't limit his production; Wagner led the Zips in tackles as a freshman in 2009 and then again last fall, nearly doubling his next-closest competitor. What does this say about Akron? Nothing too terrible, though it does point to a lack of strength and production along the interior of the defensive line. Senior Matt Little returns on the outside after making 46 stops last fall, with junior Troy Gilmer one option to replace Mike Thomas on the strong side. Thanks mainly to Wagner, but also due to some depth and recruiting additions — two incoming freshmen look promising — linebacker stands as the strength of the defense.
Defensive backs coach Kim McCloud says he's not looking back at least season as he prepares his secondary for 2011, which is a wise move. He won't like what he sees, not on film and certainly not on paper. So there will be some competition in the secondary, though you can rest assured that senior Manley Waller will start at one cornerback spot and junior Josh Richmond at free safety. As is the case elsewhere, however, Akron lacks the type of depth it might have after Ianello and his staff go through another recruiting cycle.
Sophomore Anthony Holmes played plenty as a true freshman last fall, leading Akron in interceptions with three while still learning how to play the position on the college level. The same could be said of fellow sophomore Bill Alexander, who ended the year right behind Holmes on the depth chart and will continue to make a push for increased playing time when Akron returns to the practice field in August. The Zips also need to get more at strong safety, where Kevin Davis — a senior last fall — and others brought little big-play ability to the table.
Position battle(s) to watch
Quarterback It's a three-horse race, and an open one and that, despite the fact that Akron returns starter Patrick Nicely. There's a reason for the competition: Nicely struggled mightily last fall, completing less than 50 percent of his attempts four times and throwing at least one interception in seven of his last eight games. It's not a coincidence that his best game — perhaps his only good game, give or take — came in Akron's lone win, when Nicely threw three touchdowns without a turnover in the victory over Buffalo. If Nicely is to hold onto the starting role, he'll need to beat out JUCO transfer Clayton Moore, who initially signed with Mississippi as a high school senior in 2009. Ianello also nabbed incoming freshman Zach D'Orazio during the most recent recruiting cycle, which does signal — if you look closely enough — an ability to identify and address positions of need in recruiting, which was considered Ianello's forte when he was first hired. As for this competition, the edge might be for Nicely at this point, thanks to Moore's inexperience in the system, but it's hard to fathom Nicely remaining in the starting lineup if he doesn't make a substantial improvement throwing the football.
Tidbit (name edition) Moore shares his name with the actor who played "The Lone Ranger" on the wildly popular television show from 1949-57.
Game(s) to watch
V.M.I. is a must-win, especially with the strong possibility of an 0-3 start. It's also vital that the Zips reassert themselves at home, particularly in games against Central Michigan and Kent State.
Season breakdown & prediction
In a nutshell Better days may lie ahead, if you trust what recruiting experts say about Ianello and his staff. Even if Akron out-recruits the MAC, however, there's still a matter of preparing this team for each Saturday; the Zips seemed ill-prepared a season ago, against good opponents and bad, though the team's play in November was good to see. Perhaps that play carries over to 2011, though we'll need to see a longer period of solid play before expecting much from this team. There are significant issues to address on both sides of the ball, such as the wherewithal of the both lines, questionable depth in the secondary, some questions at quarterbacks and a dearth of offensive skill players. Will Moore be the answer at quarterback? He can't fare much worse, to be honest, but he still needs to outplay Nicely to earn the starting nod. What of the defense? Depth remains an issue, but Akron really needs to place a focus on not just making stops but making plays: this defense won't dominate, so forcing turnovers and getting to the quarterback — major problems last fall — should be a primary goal. Don't expect miracles in 2011, and don't even expect a widely improved team in the win column. I said last summer that it might take more than one year for Ianello to rebuild this program; it will clearly take at least two years, we can safely say.
Dream season Ianello follows a blueprint set forth by Mike Haywood at Miami (Ohio), to a slightly lesser degree. The Zips don't vault to the top of the MAC, but rebound from a disastrous 2010 campaign to finish 6-6, 5-3 in conference play.
Nightmare season More of the same: 1-11, with only a win over V.M.I.
In case you were wondering
Where do Akron fans congregate? As has been the case for years, your best option is ZipsNation.org, the leading non-profit Web site covering Akron athletics. It's likely the best site covering Akron athletics regardless of the financial bottom line: you can also check out the Akron Beacon Journal, but the paper does devote much of its coverage to Akron's terrific men's soccer team.
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New Mexico State! Great read as always.
How about this for an arbitrary top 5 list?
Top 5 Musical Acts from Akron:
1. Devo
2. Chrissy Hynde
3. The Black Keys
4. David Allen Coe
5. James Ingram
(I had to look up the last two, but not a bad top 3, eh?)
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3) Lightly regarded
4) Highly touted
5) Bereft
Pete is right – it's New Mexico State, and the conductor of the Las Cruces Symphony is Lonnie Klein.
Without google, I don't think 99.99% of college football fans would've solved that one. I've been in the classical music world for more than 30 years (with degrees from Northwestern Univ. and the Eastman School of Music, teaching at College of William & Mary) and I was stumped.
You need to put the Black Keys as the number 1 musical act from Akron.
That is an awesome postcard. Looking forward to the Chippewa preview — real soon, I hear from sources close to psr.com
Enjoyed the article about Akron , but you forgot Andy Alleman and , Jason Taylor among others who played for Akron, in the NFL.Keep the articles coming.Best regards.
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As for the intended grubby, vulgar business plans by Doc and his boys, it should be remembered that it is quite common in academic affairs for a distinguished educator who has toiled ceaselessly in the public arena for many lengthy years to reward himself financially, furtively on his way out. In reading many volumes of the history of great universities of the last eight centuries, this is an extremely common pattern.
Kudos to The Independent Weekly for exposing the stupidity and inanity of these self-serving plots and schemes to enrich a very, very few at the expense of the multitude in the present and future. This is a cost this community cannot morally or financially afford. Doc and the boys want to piss away futurity. Think cash, and back the mayor's highly promising structure for adding to the development of our considerable artistic system here.
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Time and time again, the Lafayette Parish School Board shows an overwhelming tendency toward idiocy, but Wednesday night's contentious discussion over Northside High School's teen mother program tops the list of dumb discussions.
"The accomplishment of this goal within the next ten years is not only critical for the region to effectively compete with other regions for residents and businesses, but also to provide an amenity for everyone in Acadiana to enjoy."
Education Superintendent John White says a continued push to try to keep Louisiana from using tests associated with the Common Core education standards are creating "a state of chaos" for public school teachers.
Gov. Bobby Jindal's plan to use $210 million in surplus and one-time money to help balance next year's budget received the backing Thursday of the State Bond Commission, support that was needed for the maneuver to work.
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Just days before the fourth anniversary of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster and oil spill, the Coast Guard has moved cleanup of Louisiana's coast to a new phase, allowing BP to end its "active" efforts in the area.
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The Louisiana Senate sided with Gov. Bobby Jindal and the oil industry Tuesday, agreeing to void a lawsuit that a south Louisiana flood board filed against more than 90 oil and gas companies for coastal damage.
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APR 18 Pooyie! Robert Kennedy Jr. isn't pulling any punches in this column on Huffington Post about the flood board's lawsuit against Big Oil and Bobby Jindal's involvement in efforts to kill it. Kennedy, who is president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, describes Jindal as 'genuflecting to Big Oil's pressure' and 'the industry's chief indentured servant.' Dang!
APR 18 Here's a video of UL Coach Mark Hudspeth showing he can pump some serious iron. It sure impressed the Dr. Saturday blog, which calls his press of 370 pounds a "ridiculous" number for a coach -- and opines that no other college coach could beat ours.
APR 18 Columnist John Maginnis offers some advice to Vance McAllister on this post: Don't quit. Republicans have demanded he resign, but offer no "sensible answer" to the question of why David Vitter shouldn't leave, too, he says. McAllister needs to do his duty and serve out his (abbreviated) term, Maginnis says.
APR 18 Blogger Lamar White Jr. comments upon the plan to make a Bible Louisiana's "official book" in this post. He argues his point by telling us the story of an immigrant couple who moved to Louisiana: Amar and Raj, whose oldest child is now our Governor. This action would have a much larger impact, he opines.
APR 18 There's only one major bill left defending public education, blogger Mike Deshotels writes in this post. He's also got a few choice words for state Superintendent John White, who implies that Louisiana teachers would be thrown into chaos and disarray if they didn't have a test to teach. (Maybe kids would actually get an education then? Nah!)
APR 18 An effort to set up speed cameras on the Interstate has been shut down before it even got started, columnist Stephanie Grace tells us in this post. A bill to block the practice is sailing through the legislature -- where apparently no one wants visitors to our fair state to arrive home to a ticket. (These guys must never drive on I-10 with people from Texas).
APR 18 Blogger Tom Aswell reassures everyone worried about the staffers for Rodney Alexander -- the ones who didn't go to work for McAllister or Candid Camera, anyway -- with this post. Apparently one staffer for the retired Congressman (who also worked for a preacher accused of sexual assault) already has been hired by Alexander in the state department he now runs, Aswell says.
APR 17 At the start of the Tuesday board meeting that ended with his removal from the President's post, Joe Aguillard told the governing board of Louisiana College that SACS, the accreditation agency, requires the board to adopt a confidentiality agreement regarding board actions. Later that day, SACS told the Town Talk that confidentiality agreements would never be required. Calvinist or not, isn't lying wrong?
APR 17 Here we are, looking like backwater dummies again in the national media. This story on Huffington Post tells the nation that our legislators are so scared of the Louisiana Family Forum that they won't vote to repeal a law that was ruled illegal years ago. (Guess these particular Christians don't cotton to that "love one another" thing.)
APR 17 Here's an interesting column from Paul Stanley, political opinion editor of the Christian Post. He breaks down the differences between David Vitter and Vance McAllister, in terms of political realities. What he found surprising was the fact that many GOP leaders are swinging a self-righteous sword at McAllister which had remained sheathed when Vitter's "sin" was revealed. He does have an interesting theory -- that Jindal's people want the Vitter issue to be revived.


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Viswanathan Anand retains world title
Update: video added.
Viswanathan Anand has retained his world title by drawing Vladimir Kramnik in the 11th game of the World Championship match in Bonn, Germany. The final match score is 6?Ǭ?-4?Ǭ? for Anand.
It was a task he had never managed to do before: beating Viswanathan Anand with the black pieces. And after his opponent switched to his long-life weapon 1.e4, Vladimir Kramnik couldn't do it today either. At the press conference the Russian said it was a "difficult day" for him: "It was not easy to prepare for e4 and d4, trying to find forced wins for Black against all these moves."
He was reasonably satisfied with reaching the Najdorf, because "at least we had a game - it was not easy to just get a game". But he managed, although then Kramnik soon had to work on his own, because a few moves after Anand's 6.Bg5 he was out of theory - he actually found 9...Qc5 behind the board.
Black's seemingly anti-positional 12...exf5 was his only chance, Kramnik said, because "otherwise White simply gets very easy play"; he mentioned the standard moves Kb1 and g3 + Bh3, pressing on e6. "So I decided to mess things up." However, Anand reacted very well, calculated very well, and forced a liquidation to an ending that White simply cannot lose. "Miracles happen, but very rare, unfortunately," Kramnik finished his statement about the game.
After the game Anand said he was "happy, but at this point probably more relieved than happy. Obviously it's really nice to just have the title. Vlady was really pushing me in the last few games. With White I was really hoping to have the world championship title in the evening but I wasn't sure, you never know."
With this official and undisputed World Championship, Anand has won every big event that has been organized during his career. In fact, he's the first player to have won a world championship in three different formats. In the year 2000 Anand won the FIDE World Chess Championship which was a knockout event, in 2007 he won the World Chess Championship which was a tournament of six players, and now he has won a World Championship match. If he didn't yet belong to the list of great names starting with Steinitz, Lasker and Capablanca, he now sure does - nobody can deny it anymore. After all, today Anand has beaten the man who beat Kasparov.
Thanks to his 11 games in Bonn, Anand is also the new world's number one on the live rating list (for the top ten see the column on the far right) - he shares a virtual rating of 2791 with Topalov but tops the list because of actually having played games in this period.
Today Anand, who will turn 39 on December 11, won the most important prize of his career. It all started in 1983 when he won the National Sub-Junior Chess Championship with a score of 9/9. He subsequently became the youngest Indian to win the IM title at the age of fifteen, in 1984. One year later he became champion of India and in 1987 he became the first Indian to win the World Junior Chess Championship. In 1988, at the age of eighteen, he became India's first Grandmaster.
Ever since he won the super tournament of Reggio Emilia in 1991, ahead of Kasparov and Karpov, Anand has been among the world's elite. Among his colleagues he became known as the fastest player in the circuit and this was confirmed by him winning the unofficial world championship of rapid chess many times.
In the year 2000 Anand won the FIDE World Chess Championship in Tehran after defeating Alexei Shirov in the final. In the same year Garry Kasparov lost his world title to Vladimir Kramnik in London.
In 2002 Ruslan Ponomariov took over the title of FIDE World Champion and in 1995 Anand finished shared second with Peter Svidler at the San Luis World Championship tournament, behind Veselin Topalov. One year later Topalov lost his title against Kramnik, in a match that decided the first undisputed World Championship since 1993.
In September 2007 Anand became World Champion again by winning the FIDE World Championship Tournament held in Mexico City. He finished on 9 / 14 which was a full point ahead of Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand. Kramnik had agreed to participate in this tournament after FIDE had given him the right, if he wouldn't finish first, to automatically challenge the new World Champion.
This eventually resulted in the Anand-Kramnik match held in Bonn 14-29 October, that was dominated by the Indian from the start. After two reasonably quiet games he won twice with Black in games 3 and 5, and then scored another full point in game 6. In the final phase of the match Anand lost his concentration in a few games and even lost game 10, but by easily drawing the 11th game, he reached the unbeatable 6.5 points.
It was Anand's strategy with the Black pieces that decided the match. It's possible that the Indian didn't expect to achieve too much with the White pieces against one of the most solid players in the circuit, and therefore decided to focus the attention on Black. His choice of the sharp Meran positions was a brilliant one and with it he delivered the first major blow in game three. Again under pressure, Kramnik blundered in game 5 and this second blow led to the Russian playing his weakest game, number six, where he lost an ending that he would have drawn in most other situations.
Being 3 points down in a 12-game match is another way of saying: it's just hopeless. But it can only be admired how Kramnik managed to fight back in subsequent games - he finally started to feel confident, finally started to come up with theoretical novelties and simply... finally started to play on his normal level. But it was too late - Anand's narrow escape in game 9 earned him a valuable half point and then for Kramnik it was clearly a mission impossible to score 3 out of 3 against this kind of player.
Anand's victory was based on a combination of excellent preparation and playing almost flawlessly. A deserved champion who has deservedly entered the famous list of World Championship match winners.
Here's the 11th and final game of the match, in which I included some notes by co-editor IM Merijn van Delft as well:
Match score:
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- Games in PGN provided by TWIC
(Note that the comments below this article started during our live coverage of the game)
5 years 5 months ago
Every match in world championship history has had the same winner after 16 games as after 24 games, so 16 is quite enough.
I share your enthusiasm. All the same,my guess is that the best thing wuould be for them to play 14 to 16 games rather than 12, let alone even less than that.
There is no need to be rude.
You don't have to agree with me, everyone has an opinion .Lets keep this sofisticated... dont u think?
The Evonik girls in the back (but very present) seem to be a bit outplaced in a worldchampionshipmatch. Why is this..i would just die standing there ...seems humilating. (This contribution was made by my girlfriend.. not me) but even i get her point! Were where the Chippendales when Alexandra got her title?
5 years 5 months ago
Semipatz, I like your idea of 10 + 10.
I have to say that this was a great match. Both players displayed quality chess despite the errors/blunders (which are bound to happen). Also, both players showed good professionalism and did not find any lame excuses for their (game) defeats. All in all, a very enjoyable experience (especially when compared to Topalov-Kramnik match).
5 years 5 months ago
Congrats to Anand! To beat Kramnik three times in a match of only 12 games is amazing!
Congrats to Kramnik for a sublime win in game 10 and for being such a good sportsman and gracious in defeat!
Future WCC matches should be match-play only and I support them being over 16 games.
But I agree with Andreas that the Fischer random chess and chess clock should be tried and made more popuplar before coming to any conclusions about it.
congratulations to both the winner and the runner up.
Good fighting games. Glad to see Anand not backing down on the challenge of sharp lines and going for it even in game 11.
Well deserved win for Kramnik in game 10.
Wells done sponsors and thank you for bringing us great match.
Evonik & Gazprom thank you. amd Bonn too..
Oh Shut Up Andreas ,
You seem to act like the Fox channel in the USA, if not worse. You make a hypothesis with ifs and buts, and then go on to unethically smear dirt on one party.
Ask the same questions to both the parties.
otherwise classy match. How do you not know that kramink is not assisted unethically or illeaglly either by computers or the Russian chess mafia?
How dot you know that he did not have several more computers than Anand?
Let us not be stupid and idiotic in our comments, which will reflect poorly on us, because they are false alelgations just to smear some one.
Do not lose your credibility.
5 years 5 months ago
congrats Anand for retaining the world chess crown and achieving a unique feat of becoming world champion on 3 occasions under three different formats i.e 2ooo-Teheran/New Delhi-knockout,2007-Mexico-tournament,now 2008-Germany-match format with Kramnik. Also congrats for making INDIA feel proud. I feel he will have even a greater reception than on the previous occasions on coming back to INDIA.
5 years 5 months ago
I fully support the Evonik-Gasprom girls. Anyone who feels otherwise can go jump in a lake.
5 years 5 months ago
I strongly feel & forecast that Vi
shy Anand will get the Chess Oscar for the year 2008.
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Wow...this is a really good day if you live in India, or Philadelphia.
"Yeah, and if that match had been scheduled for 10 games, it would have been all draws until the last two. Is that the way a world championship should be decided?"
Well, the fact is there were so many draws in Anand-Kasparov in the first half mainly because they were preserving their stamina and not taking too many risks.
All 16 games can be draws in a 16 games match - then what? 10 or 12 games are a lot and should be enough to decide a championship - be realistic.. You don't have other sports where the final is 10 or more games. Also, by your logic, why stop at 16 or 24 and not go on for ever so that each one of them gets enough chance to get back? We need to be realistic in terms of organization too.
"Well, the fact is there were so many draws in Anand-Kasparov in the first half mainly because they were preserving their stamina and not taking too many risks."
How do you know? If there are draws in the first half, people say that. If there are draws in the second half, people say they were too tired to take risks. In the end, those things may be factors, but it mainly comes down to the chess. The logic of positions sometimes drives games to draws. Sometimes there is lots of fighting chess but mostly draws (e.g., Lasker-Schlechter).
"You don?¢'Ǩ'Ñ¢t have other sports where the final is 10 or more games."
Fine, but it's not how many games, it's how many DECISIVE games. Many sports require 4 wins to win the final...at least, in the U.S. this is common. Well, I don't have a problem with a chess championship format if there's enough time for the winner to win at least 4 (5 or 6 would be nice).
Here's a statistic for you. In all the World Championship Matches between World War II and Kramnik, 1951 to 1995, the winner won from 4 to 7 games, except one...the 1961 Tal-Botvinnik match, a slugfest where Botvinnik won 10-5 with only 6 draws. The four classical championships involving Kramnik have been 2-0, 2-2, 3-2 (not counting forfeit and tiebreaks), and now 3-1.
Draws may sometimes be great chess, but one thing they never do is sort out who's the better player. Only wins can do that. Judged by number of wins, the last four WC matches -- scheduled for 16, 14, 12, and 12 games, respectively -- have produced a grand total of 15 decisive games, 10 for the winners, 5 for the losers. That's enough for two matches...very flimsy for four. How do we know the best players really won, in ANY of them? There's too much random variation in such a small number of games.
Besides, what could be better than a long, satisfying match between two titans? It take many years of tournament encounters to produce so many games between any two players as a 20-24 game match. Having the highest possible stakes only makes it more delicious.
Amos Sky
5 years 5 months ago
Peter- Great coverage of this championship. As usual nothing but the best from you. This site is truly something special. I love it but my chess days are winding down. Besides being a lackluster player it takes up too much of my time but thanks for this site. It is magnificent. Keep up the great work!!
Related to semipatz's statement:
There's no perfect formula for a world championship match. The reason FIDE went to a limited number of games match (instead of having to win a certain number of games) was because of the first Karpov-Kasparov match. A player had to win 6 games to win, and the match went on and on, and lasted over 40 games and was abruptly stopped (obviously with controversy) with no winner decided. The format was then changed to a 24 game match.
Personally, I think 16 games would be sufficient.
We cannot say that the best player won in any WC matches so far. One thing is certain - the player who was in the best form and displayed the best chess for that duration (of games) - won. It would be absurd to say that luck can be a factor in ten or twelve games. Anand was in the best form for this duration of 12 (or 11 rather) games and Kramnik was not. As simple as that. Same logic can be applied for Anand-Kasparov and other WC matches. As long as both players know in advance how many games are going to be played, it is fair. I can argue that 24 games is not fair in a case (for example) when A wins 5 games in the first 11 and B wins only 4 in the next 11 games. I can then argue that 30 games should be played and so on. There is no limit to this argument. Where do you draw the line? Your other suggestion that n wins is needed for WC has a possibility that the match goes on for ever (as was witnessed in Karpov-Kasparov). Also, a long match can pose many challenges (in terms of organization, sustaining interest in the match, etc.) which can hurt (rather than help) chess in the long run.
5 years 5 months ago
"Anand is also the new world?¢'Ǩ'Ñ¢s number one on the live rating list, he shares a virtual rating of 2791 with Topalov but tops the list because of actually having played games in this period."
I don't agree. Anand is second in the live rating list. You can't round up the number as FIDE does, i.e. you can't use FIDE rules in Mr. Runde's list calculations. The latter has its own rules. Take it or leave it.
We all know that WC is not just the moves that we see - it is much beyond that. Both players know in advance how many games are going to be played. Knowing that, they both come up with a strategy (together with their seconds). In this case Kramnik's strategy did not work but when he played Kasparov, it worked wonders (with his famous Berlin defence). In that light, Anand is a worthy champion in this WC and Kramnik was a worthy champion in 2000.
There is never going to be a perfect scenario. Given that, it is just amazing that Anand as won three different formats.
The future is bright at this point , the next matches are going to be really exciting .
We now have a champion who is not afraid of any person or format, Anand wont hide behind his crown like Kramnik did.
I hope he gets the chess oscar this year.
The World Cup format needs to be changed
Step One = Start - League format , the top say 12 are decided
Step Two = Tournament round amongst the 12 players
Step Three = The top 4 are decided
Step Four = 3- Round tournament amongst the Top 4
Step Five = 10 match amongst the top 2
Step Six = Declare the winner
Then we should also have some other prizes / Titles - Creative / Dynamic / Safe ...etc. Players
Surely such a format would drag the event, well Chess has limited sponsorship unlike Tennis, or the event can be spread into 2 or 3 sub-events....
5 years 5 months ago
Congratulations to Anand, congratulations to India! Anand was better in this match (said by one who actually watched the last game with with black pieces on the bottom).
Can we please drop this silly "undisputed" and simply talk about World Champion? It feels like referring to a delicious meal as "unrotten food".
Well, jussu, it's admirable that one day after the match you don't want to see "undisputed" anymore, but I guess we have to keep on using it until everybody else also realizes that there really is no other champion!?
5 years 5 months ago
Kramnik and Anand are both great sportsman. We are lucky to focus on the games themselves and nothing off the board!!!
5 years 5 months ago
your idea is too complicated
let's use fide elo to get the 8 or 10 players who will determine the next challenger
Let those 10 play a round robin tournament.18 games in a month is acceptable
I agree with dirtboy, pwells, and semipatz that there can be no perfect formula for finding the "most deserving" winner. If I have one week to finish a hard project, I will toil hard every day of the week. But if I have six months to do the same project, I will most certainly not have the same level of intensity, but basically much of my energies would be expended towards the last couple of weeks. This is esential human nature. Chess players are no different. In a longer match, they will use the first several games to "feel each other" out. This tends to encourage a lot more draws than a shorter match. My basic point is that a champion is one who can win no matter what the conditions are, because he has better chess playing abilities. In that regard, Anand has demonstrated this more than anyother world champion before him, since he has one blitz championships, rapid championships, knock-out WC, and now, a classical format WC. One can' ask for a more deserving champio. So, let us all give it up and hail the king!
5 years 5 months ago
Kasparov: "This result ends the illusion that Kramnik is a great match player. London was a unique occurrence and I still stand with Leonid Yudasin as the only players Kramnik has ever beaten in a match!"
I'm very disappointed by Kasparov's comments. I don't quite understand why Kasparov keeps insisting on being remembered in history as the only World Champion to be defeated by a nobody.
I was rooting for Kasparov in 2000. I want to remember him as the greatest of all champions, who only lost his title in a match against the great Kramnik!
I don't think it would be fair either to remember Anand as the only World Champion who got his title by beating a nobody. Anand should be remembered as the worthy champion that took his title from the great Kramnik. He should be very proud of this achievement. I'm sure he is.
I thought Kramnik was teaching Topalov a sportsmanship lesson by being so gracious and humble in defeat. Now I wish Kasparov could learn from that lesson too.
5 years 5 months ago
Congrats Anand and Vladimir for great matches.
Vladimir wish to see you in many more world championship matches.
I just looked at the final press conference. I can't describe in words how impressed I was with Kramnik's response. Eventhough I am a die-hard Anand fan, I have developed immense respect for Kramnik. I wish him a wonderful post-match career. What humility in saying that Anand taught him a great lesson and that he would go on to improve his chess based on this experience. I would really like to see a more agressive Kramnik, playing for wins and creating wonderfully creative chess like Kasaparov used to do.
I must also say that I'm impressed with Kramnik's sportsmanship. I have known Anand to be a gentleman for a long time, but didn't know how Kramnik would react.
In the Kasparov-Kramnik match, I was rooting for Kramnik as I wanted change. I still believe Kasparov to be the best player in the world, combining Kramnik's solidity with Topalov's aggressiveness, but I was rooting for the underdog. So I was happy to see Kramnik win that match. But ever since then, it did appear he was dodging Kasparov consistently, and so while I think Kramnik is a great player, I lost some respect for him.
I hope now that the chess world is considered fully unified, and congratulations to world champion Anand and to Kramnik for a great match!
"Your other suggestion that n wins is needed for WC has a possibility that the match goes on for ever (as was witnessed in Karpov-Kasparov). Also, a long match can pose many challenges (in terms of organization, sustaining interest in the match, etc.) which can hurt (rather than help) chess in the long run."
I'm not suggesting a match where you are actually required to win a certain number of games and draws don't count, merely one where the number of games played (say, 20) is enough that it is LIKELY that the winner wins a reasonable number of games. Even ultra-drawish Petrosian won 5 and 4 games respectively in the two WC matches he won, because they were out of 24.
Of course the proper length has something arbitrary about it...that's true of anything. Naturally we could argue over the right number, but by your reasoning, why not shorten the match to 6 games or less? Just because something is arbitrary doesn?¢'Ǩ'Ñ¢t mean you can?¢'Ǩ'Ñ¢t arrive at a reasonable compromise. Mine is similar to what prevailed in chess for decades. Prior to 1995, almost all of the WC matches had been out of 24 or 30 games, or they required 6, 8, or even (in the early days) 10 wins (Lasker-Schlechter was an exception, but only because part of the match fell through).
I doubt many people in North America would be happy if the World Series were best of 3 or best of 5. It's okay if it ends in 5 (as it just did), but you still have to win four to prove you?¢'Ǩ'Ñ¢re the champs. It's a question of taking a championship seriously enough to demand a steep climb to the top.
In terms of sustaining interest, I don't recall this as having been a problem in the days of the long WC matches...quite the contrary. The hard thing is getting enough interest in candidate's matches or tournaments. Once you actually have a head-to-head, king of the hill championship match, it's very easy to keep people riveted.
"sreeram_srinivas on 30 October 2008 7:51 AM
The World Cup format needs to be changed
Step Four = 3- Round tournament amongst the Top 4"
If you mean a triple round robin, that would be a 9-game tournament, with some players getting White more than others...rather strange.
How about this instead: have two 13-player, 12-round Candidates Qualifier round robins, with the top two from each advancing to a Candidates Tournament, which would be a 12-round quadruple round robin. The winner of this gets to challenge the World Champion for the title. The only role of the World Cup is that the top 8 (all the quarterfinalists) get seeded into the Candidates Qualifiers, along with the strongest under-18 player, the strongest woman, and the 16 highest rated players (other than the World Champion and the ones who qualify another way).
The nice thing about this is you get four of the best players in the world in the Candidates Tournament playing four games against each opponent...usually you have to wait a long time to see just one or two such "heavy matchups" that everyone eagerly anticipates.
"Just because something is arbitrary doesn?¢'Ǩ'Ñ¢t mean you can?¢'Ǩ'Ñ¢t arrive at a reasonable compromise. Mine is similar to what prevailed in chess for decades. Prior to 1995, almost all of the WC matches had been out of 24 or 30 games, or they required 6, 8, or even (in the early days) 10 wins (Lasker-Schlechter was an exception, but only because part of the match fell through)."
Just because longer matches were played in the older WC matches does not mean that those lengths are/were right. We need to think what looks practical and interesting. Kramnik and Anand mentioned in the press conference after the final game that 14 and 12 games (repectively) are good for WC. That looks like a reasonable compromise (on the length) to me. I know it will not look good for you and this debate will go on :-)
Well, personally, I suspect Kramnik mostly wants the matches to be shortly because of his arthritis condition. It's hard for him to sit for long periods, game after game. Anand has said in the past he actually prefers a tournament to decide the WC. I hope there aren't too many takers on that.
A humble person is always humble.
Kramnik was very arrogant when winning , so i find it hard to believe this new super humble act.
I was thinking 16 games sounded like a nice, (binary) round, number. But if they think 12 or 14 games is sufficient, that's fine, too. Maybe FIDE should survey the top ten players for input on this, since they are the ones who may become involved.
Kramnik's "you can only control the quality of your preparation, but not the results" sounds very "Gita-ish". I believe that such a philosophical, yet pragmatic, outlook has been the main reason for Anand's even-keeled personality and for his remarkably consistent success for nearly two decades. Although, given the debacle, I am not sure about the quality of Kramnik's preparation.
On one or two occasions I saw Kramnik playing blitz and I heard people saying K was a natural tactician who was forcing himself into positional manner of playing after the example of Dr Euwe.
I trust Kramnik's humblest statement post Championship that he has to concentrate more on his skills is his own statement....... I had been critical of his earlier "lent Anand the Championship_2007", the current makes Kramnik a much more mellowed and matured person. My respect grows for him !!
On Semipatz - WC tournament format....agree .....good to have few young and old faces and top four competing against each other... gives even chances to all players..... hope one day this wisdom dawns on FIDE...... Tongue in cheek...We will not claim any "copyright" on our original WC format ideas !!??!!
Anand is not current number one in the virtual rating list .The first position in both rankings (official & virtual) goes again for Topalov.
I mean:
if we publish the results of the virtual rating list right now, Anand is Number One with the FIDE rule (number of games played)
5 years 5 months ago
I don't know any player who starts his career as a strategical genius. Fortunately Kramnik specialized in this kind of skill, otherwise how could he have dethroned Kasparov and how many brilliant & instructive games would we have missed ? (By the way, Kasparov also had to improve strategically before he could dethrone Karpov.)
When Kramnik said at the final press conference that his playing style might change in a notable way after the lessons he has learned in this match, this doesn't necessarily mean that he will become a tactician again. I suppose part of the change could consist in taking a bit more risks in the opening in order to improve his winning percentage. Already before the match he hinted at this when being asked about his opening strategy of playing for equality as Black. At that time he said that since 2000 he had been playing a series of matches, where it isn't necessary to try and win as Black. However, Anand has now shown him that even in a match it is very risky to put all of your hopes in the white pieces.
That would be in case Anand and Topalov shared the same virtual ELO , which is not the case.
Topalov is number one in the FIDE ratings and in the live ratings.
I must remind you also that FIDE rules dont apply on live ratings .
You are reading the live rating as if you were FIDE , which i asume you are not.
I wonder why is so hard to accept that Topalov is the number one rated player.
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