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Fifth Annual Valentine's Gala
The Music of the Night: A Celebration in Song with Broadway's Longest-Running Phantom Howard McGillin
February 14, 2014 at 6:00pm
GPAC/Duncan-Williams Performance Hall
Actor Howard McGillin, Broadway's longest-running Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera, headlines Tennessee Shakespeare Company's Fifth Annual Valentine's Gala on February 14, 2014, at Germantown Performing Arts Center.
Mr. McGillin's hour-long show to benefit TSC's Education Program will feature his Broadway songbook and stories from his fabled 30-year career.
Platinum, Gold, and Silver seating packages (with tiered benefits) for 10 guests are now available by calling TSC's Development Office today at 901-759-0620.
Preferred seating is available in the order in which calls are received. Single tickets, if available, will go on sale in January.
The evening, which is expected to sell out, also includes a lavish buffet dinner, an exclusive opportunity to win a trip to Cumberland Island, Georgia, for only $25, TSC's singular live auction, and a fun new silent auction of 30 Celebrity Wine & Spirits baskets.
Howard McGillin is a two-time Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominee for originating the role of John Jasper in The Mystery of Edwin Drood and for his portrayal of Billy Crocker in the Broadway revival of Cole Porter'sAnything Goes. He starred in the award-winning West End revival of Mack & Mabel and sings on the cast album recording. He also received critical acclaim for his work as Molina in the Kander and Ebb musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, for originating a leading role in the world premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Bounce, for Kodaly inShe Loves Me, Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden, and Captain Hook in the national tour of Peter Pan. Mr. McGillin has been featured in the Encores! production of the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936. He also has performed in many concerts in the United States and abroad, including Sondheim's Follies that was released on DVD.
Choose from these Tiered Options of 10-seat Packages
Name recognition on Poster;
Best seats in the house;
Invitation to private catered dinner party with the Guest Artist on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014
Plus all items listed with Gold Sponsorship, below.
Name recognition on Invitation;
Preferential seating in theatre;
Complimentary Champagne and Dessert in the Green Room during post-show reception with Guest Artist. Complimentary photo opportunity with Guest Artist;
Receive an exclusive gift with option for autograph: wine chill/picnic bag with two bottles of specially labeled TSC wine.
Plus all items listed with Silver Sponsorship, below.
Lavish Dinner Buffet;
Dessert Reception;
Name recognition in Playbill;
10 tickets to the event;
Preferential seating in theatre behind Gold Sponsors;
Access to open bar.
An Exciting Evening of Wine, Spirits, and Frenzy!
This year's Gala will be SWIFTER than ever.
We will feature a condensed Silent Auction, featuring 30 celebrity gift baskets and other exclusive items, allowing you more time for perusal and bidding.
We will locate ten special Shakespeare Surprise Dolls within GPAC to be sold on a first-come/first-found basis at prices varying from $100 to $1,000, each bearing a scroll that will reveal a secret prize package and guaranteed to have a minimum fair market value of what is paid for the doll. You get to keep the doll, too!
Discover our new, one-night-only Drawing with a limited number of $25 tickets available: only 400 for our 500+ guests. The prize is an "Island Picnic Getaway," which includes a one-week stay for up to 8 people on Cumberland Island, GA, the largest of the Georgia barrier islands.
We will present an abbreviated Live Auction, including some dream dates, Dan McCleary and his one-of-a-kind shaken Martinis, and a "Frenzy" to get your heart really pumping. Imagine gift certificates to your favorite restaurants auctioned off at full value to the first, raised bid card. Your arm has never moved so fast!
Bring your students
Unto the Breach with TSC's
Mid-South Schools Tour!
Shake(s), Rattle, & Roll
It's hip. It's cool. It's an adventure with the original SOUL MAN! Students will discover chart-topping, toe-tapping, feet-stomping, got-to-jump-out-of-your-seat-and-move-with-it SHAKESPEARE – direct from Memphis! Resident actors Slade Kyle and Cara McHugh play with breathtaking dexterity through a whirlwind of scenes and soliloquies sure to make students want to SHOUT!
DATES: September 30, 2013 – May 9, 2014
VENUE: In YOUR School! Touring Tennessee, across the Mid-South, and throughout the Southeast.
Recommended for intimate audience of up to 100, School Tours book for a flat rate of $450. For groups larger than 100, TSC recommends booking multiple shows. Mulitple shows can be booked on the same day or on different days, whatever is most convenient. Teachers and chaperones are admitted FREE and do not count toward the 100 audience members. The show runs 45-minutes, with a post-show actor talk back.
Please note: Travel costs may apply.
Performance Space: This production requires a space AT LEAST 12' x 12' (or a 12' diameter). No stage or elevation is required, so we can play in a variety of spaces.
Material is suitable for all ages.
What students and teachers are saying about TSC's School Tours:
What an awesome experience. I got so much feedback from students and teachers that it was 'the highlight of the year.'
- Michele Sabatier, teacher, St. Joseph School, Greenville, MSMoving, authentic performances! The quality of the productions is unmatched in this area. My students will never claim Shakespeare is irrelevant again!!
- April Murphy, teacher, Collierville Connection Homeschool GroupI didn't have to find chaperones. I didn't have to order buses or lunches. It was the most convenient, perfect 'field trip' for the kids and me. TSC is gracious, pleasant and perfectly Shakespearean.
- Abby Cardwell, teacher, Snowden School
TSC's Romeo and Juliet 2012 Schools Tour
Pictured (left to right): Wolfe Coleman, Michael Khanlarian, Slade Kyle, and Matthew Crewse
For more information or to book your school,
please contact Education Manager Slade Kyle at
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Reduced pricing is made possible in part by TSC's Barbara B. Apperson Angel Fund.
PLEASE NOTE: Titles and dates are subject to change.
"I have touched the highest point of all my greatness"
- King Henry VIII
For serious actors 18-27, this two-week intensive training opportunity will bring you into the world of Tennessee Shakespeare Company's classical playing of Shakespeare. TSC actor-teachers lead you through a rigorous process that will help you build upon essential acting techniques while taking personal ownership of Shakespeare's text. Develop your craft through sessions in Scene Play, Text Work, Soliloquy, Stage Combat, and Elizabethan Movement & Dance. Explore the Elizabethan tradition of "found spaces" for theatrical expression and the challenge and fun of working with Shakespeare's language in a variety of environments, both inside and out. All work is performance-based, culminating in a community performance for friends and family.
Age for participants: 18-27.
Dates: July 7 - 18, 2014
Perfect attendance is required. Admission is limited to 16 participants. Housing must be personally arranged and is not the responsibility of TSC.
Cost: $500.
What our Young Company had to say about the experience:
It's two weeks of getting to know your self through Shakespeare. It's finding your strengths and building them. It's finding your weakness and making it your strength. It's having fun with people who are passionate about their craft. It's heart-work.
- Edna Dinwiddie, 22 years oldThe attention that every actor received was perfect. Each of us was challenged at our current level and received what we needed most.
- Jason Gerhard, 23 years oldThe most beneficial acting experience of my life; I have gained more in two weeks than I have in 3 years in college.
- Adam Maldanado, 21 years old
Click the image below to watch a slideshow of the inaugural Young Company
Pictured (left to right): Edna Dinwiddie and Lena Wallace
For more information about Young Company,
please contact Education Manager Slade Kyle at


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Awesome!!! I cannot wait for this to be released!
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Pretty awesome!
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It looks cute. Sadly, I won't be teleporting around the screen as Evil Lyn, blasting the snot out of Palace Guards, but I'm sure it till be fun all the same. I'm going to buy it.
I'm not a huge computer guy but why are things like this done specifically for Apple software instead of Android as well? Is it simply a money thing or is it easier to build games for that platform? I hope it gets ported to Android shortly after its release...
Robot knights and Megator = awesome!
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this looks killer!
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The game looks great (for what it is). I'm sure it was designed to emulate the side scrolling action of say a Castlevania, with the simplistic aesthetics of a game like Castle Crashers or Alien Hominid. I'm sure this incarnation is more about testing the waters, with a game of a larger scale to follow dependent on the success of scaled down version at a lower price. I actually like the quirky animation; it reminds me of the Mini Masters shown at SDCC a few years back.
Neat! Certainly excited, but not as excited as I would be if it were on something that allows me to play it with a controller. Why would I wanna play a classic styled side scroller with a danged touch screen? He-Man is pretty much the only thing that would get me to try something like this on the iPad. I've been waiting for an awesome game like this for Motu for a long time! Lets just hope this is testing the waters and we'll eventually get a full game like this, but with more playable characters.
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That's pretty neat looking, hopefully this gets ported to the PC or something since I don't own a smart phone.
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A barbaric world without slave girls? That's truly barbaric!
I think you guys are setting your expectations too high. It does look great for what it is, but it's made for iphone and iPads. It's not going to be some high tech adventure game, it's simply something fun for mobile devices.
I usually am wary of new interpretations, but this is really good. It's like Filmation mixed with MOTUC in a perfect mesh.
I cannot wait to play this on iPad! I just hope Teela/Sorceress/Evil Lyn show up. I know She-ra likely won't due to the separate rights issue, but as long as we get some female action I'm all over it.
Very cool, exciting news!
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If they leave Evil-Lyn out ill be mad. There are several games in which a male hero fights a female boss/villain so I don't see an issue.
Teela (auburn hair) needs a cameo at least if not as a playable character.
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Thanks fantastic!! But not everyone has bought into Papa Steve, I hope it gets released on other OS' as well. Like Android and others.
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Looks a lot like Ghosts N' Goblins, which was a great game back in the day.

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Anand beats Gelfand in tiebreak, retains world title (VIDEO)
Viswanathan Anand defeated Boris Gelfand 2.5-1.5 in the rapid tiebreak on Wednesday. The Indian won the World Championship in Moscow and retained his world title for the third time. After winning the 2007 World Championship tournament in Mexico City, Anand defeated Vladimir Kramnik in 2008 and Veselin Topalov in 2010 and now emerged as the winner in Moscow as well.
Gelfand congratulates Anand at the end of the 4th tiebreak game
Video of the tiebreak
A very equal match, with two players extremely close to each other in terms of both chess strength and opening preparation, came to an end on Wednesday with a tense rapid tiebreak that was won 2.5-1.5 by Anand. In the State Tretyakov Gallery in central Moscow, hundreds of spectators had come to see the showdown – more than the playing hall could hold. "It went my way," Anand commented afterwards, admitting that a fair share of luck had been involved.
The start of the tiebreak, with Gelfand playing White
Even on this very last day Gelfand didn't really play worse than his opponent, but he needed much more time on the clock. Where Anand showed a "regular" time consumption during his classical games, in the tiebreak the hallmark of his success was his speed.
The games were played at 25 minutes and 10 seconds increment per move. After each encounter there was a 10-minute break in which the players could consult two of their seconds who were backstage. With a clock counting down visibly on stage, this schedule was strictly followed and no incidents occurred.
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was one of the spectators | Photo Alexey Yushenkov
It was quite a different day from all the others. The level of security was much higher this time, mostly to avoid noise and other disturbances in the playing hall. We filmed the start of game 1 and then went to the press room for a while. When we wanted to film the final part of the game, we were not allowed back into the playing hall. As it turned out, it had been announced – in Russian only – that people could only leave the hall, but not re-enter, during the games.
Just when the guard at the door said njet one more time, we noticed that we were standing right next to Andrei Filatov, the main sponsor of the event. When we explained the situation, he said: "I'm having the same problem!" Amazingly, even the man who paid for everything couldn't get in! However, all this was quickly resolved when we spotted organizer Ilya Levitov in the corridor...
Gelfand started with the white pieces in the first game, which was a very sharp fight. Anand got an advantage, but it seems that with 21...Bxg3 he miscalculated. After 22.Ra3! and especially 27.Rxb7 it was the World Champion who had to watch out. Instead of 28.Qxh6 perhaps with 28.Qd3 Gelfand could have tried for more.
Game 1 in progress, this time seen from the stage | Photo Alexey Yushenkov
In the second game Anand repeated his Rossolimo Sicilian. Probably following more home analysis he won a pawn, but Gelfand clearly had compensation with active pieces and a bishop against a knight. Later in the ending he was even playing for a win for a while, but Anand maintained his extra pawn. With much less time on the clock (basically playing on the increment at some point) Gelfand suddenly allowed his bishop to be exchanged for white's knight, and the resulting R+p vs R was a textbook win – Anand didn't even have to show it.
The third game was arguably the most dramatic, with Gelfand having excellent chances to immediately level the score. "I was lost of course," Anand admitted afterwards. Not only in the middlegame, but also in the rook ending. Just three moves before the end, Gelfand gave away the last win, again with little time on the clock.
Gelfand agrees to a draw - he missed several wins, the clearest shortly before the end | Photo Alexey Yushenkov
Gelfand had to win the last game with Black, and he actually got an advantage. Anand was "playing too much for a draw", as he said afterwards. However, Gelfand probably chose the wrong plan at some point and as soon as white's pieces became active on the kingside, Anand knew that the worst was behind him.
Here are a few quotes from Anand at the press conference:
It was incredibly tense. Right now probably the only feeling you have is relief. I think I'm even too tense to be happy but I'm really relieved.
I would say that my nerves held out better. I simply held on for dear life.
The problem with such a tight match is that every mistake has a much higher value than in a match where there are mistakes going back and forth in every game. In a match where there were so few chances for me it was really an incredibly heavy blow to lose game 7. I cannot remember such a black day. I couldn't sleep. That day I really thought I'd blown the match.
Vishy Anand | Photo Alexey Yushenkov
More comments by Anand are included in our video above.
Gelfand said:
I would say that it was an equal match, and that I was better sometimes, for example in the second game. I think I had more than enough compensation for the pawn and good chances. Probably the problem of the whole tiebreak was that I was behind on the clock for most of the time. In such a situation it is sometimes difficult to find the best move on the spot, which happened with my blunders in games 2 and 3. Also in game 4 I had the advantage but because of the same problem, I failed to convert it.
Boris Gelfand | Photo Alexey Yushenkov
On Monday Hans-Walter Schmitt, a good friend of Anand and organizer of over a dozen of strong rapid chess events in Mainz, said that "Vishy must be the favorite in the tiebreak. He won almost all of my tournaments!" And indeed, Anand, who owns an apartment in Germany right next to Schmitt and who spent his last weeks before the match preparing right there, proved that Schmitt had predicted right.
The winning team: Peter Heine Nielsen, Radek Wojtaszek, Surya Ganguly, Eric van Reem, Hans-Walter Schmitt (back), Aruna Anand, Vishy Anand, Rustam Kasimdzhanov (front) | Photo thanks to Mate in Moscow
Anand pocketed approximately US $ 1.4 million (1,13 million Euro) -- 55% of the total prize fund of USD 2.55 million. Gelfand won approximately US $ 1.15 million (92,700 Euro).
According to the latest FIDE schedule, Vishy Anand will defend his title in October-November 2013 against the winner of the next Candidates tournament, to be held in March 2013.
Match score
Mohit Sharma
1 year 10 months ago
My insinuations about Anand may be bad judgment. In this news story Anand gives his thoughts:
Please try to get us some really good (close-ups) shots of the winners trophy.
1 year 10 months ago
Awful match and awful attitude for these two players. An event to be forgotten. Hope to see Carlsen, Morozevich, Nakamura, real fighters in the next wc cycle, but sponsors won't be attracted after this sorry show set up by fide.
1 year 10 months ago
Sorry to burst your bubble , but Nakamura and Morozovich havent even qualified for the Candidates tournament.
Yeah. :( I for one am a bit upset that one of the top 5 rated players in he world- ranked above the current world champion isn't qualified for the Candidates. Yet another thing that suggests that maybe FIDE should look into how they run things...
1 year 10 months ago
This match clearly showed that Anand is not hat strong. He simply couldn't crush him into pieces. Hopefully there are fighters with uncompromising style like Carlsen, Aroninan and Nakamura. Gelfand has never been a top elite player and Anand could not win easily. No doubt Tal memorial will be more entartaining chess.
1 year 10 months ago
Ecactly, well said. Anand wouldn't have played this match on first place if the old champion had to qualify like Gelfand and all other candidates. The whole event was doubtful before the first move and proved meaningless, except for 2 interesting games. Let's see how the old and new world champion will fare in Medias, Romania against Carlsen, Radjabov, Karjakin and Ivanchuk from 23 June. I would be surprised if he doesnt finish last.
History has been made. The future of chess is dead. Control your excitement and calm silence of the chess reporters Boris. LOL. Funerals are more exciting then chess these days. Now seriously these games truly have inspire the children of tom to play professional chess. Naka says there no money in Chess. Stick to video games kids. More fun and creative idea's there.
1 year 10 months ago
After hearing Vishy's comments, I think that both I and many others may have judged things a little harshly. Ironically, in a strictly sporting sense, this result makes sense. Vishy had a lot of respect for his opponent, who put up a good fight, and Vishy understood that he is in a slump. So, he took the practical decisions necessary to retain the title. Obviously not the most exciting chess for casual or even some serious chess fans, but a fair sporting result.
Looking forward to the next WCC as I have a feeling it will different rules (quite probably Sofia rules) and a different, more combative atmosphere!
Anand wins another rapid title from a non Top 10 player. Yawn. I never thought I'd say this, from now on unless the the challenger is a former (WC or WC Challenger), or current Top 5 player, I'll pass. The WC should only consist of the 3 types of players I just mentioned to produce a true WC.
1 year 10 months ago
Much better. Much better! This phase was pretty exciting. Some bad luck for Gelfand, but kudos to both for bringing out the heavy weaponry in the rapids.
1 year 10 months ago
Congrats to Anand and hats off to Gelfand! Tough match - and it was as even as I expected. Historically speaking Vishy was never a clear and big favorite. Anyone who has followed chess for the last 20 years knows Gelfand is not a pushover. Too many idiots just stare too much at ELO rating without having a clue.
When it comes to Carlsen and other ELO heavies they still have to qualify to challenge the World Champion. That is the whole point why Chess World Championship is so special: one must climb on top of the mountain first to even have a shot at the title. It is utterly stupid to compare chess in this respect to tennis. If anyone wants to call number 1 rated player champion - fine, but then the champion might change every 2 months when the ratings are calculated! That would be simply hilarious....
When will they release a dvd showcasing the highlights of WC 2012. How many will it sell. They will need Kasparov to go over the games for it to have any value. Wasted internet bandwidth watching these games. Kuwait chess championships would of drew more excitement.
Vishy is a great player and congratulations to him, one of the nicest World Champions ever. He isn't the player he was a few years back though, in 12 classical games he only won one, thanks to Gelfand's losing horribly in the opening, and then in four rapid games he only won the one where Gelfand blundered because of time trouble in a position Svidler said was drawn unless Gelfand hung a piece. But a win is a win and Anand deserved it. The match was one of the least memorable title matches ever, but that won't bother Anand and neither should it. I'm sure he's bothered by the fact that he has had it so difficult to win games the last year and a half though, I wonder if he really will play much longer.
Some people are saying: Anand is not playing well, Anand is not a worthy champion, this match is no good, etc. I think those people are underestimating Gelfand, who showed himself to be a genius of a chessplayer, hard-working like nobody else and psychologically very strong when suffering setbacks. They just look at Gelfand's rating and somehow conclude that he is almost a patzer and that a World Champion should crush him easily, but they fail to see how many great players he had to face in matches in the world cup he won and in Kazan, and, because he had a lower rating and could not qualify otherwise, he had to beat them ALL, in order to challenge Anand.
The World Cup wasn't all that strong, Gelfand was ranked first so the outcome followed Elo expectations. Then in Kazan he won against Mamedyarov, Kamsky and Grischuk. He did well there as well as here, but I don't think he's anywhere close to the top five, and I'm certain he will finish in the bottom half in the Candidates.
"The World Cup wasn't all that strong" ?! Then perhaps YOU should have gone there and won it, maybe you could, because only 128 players participated, some of which were Gashimov, Svidler, Morozevich, Radjabov, Ivanchuk, Ponomariov, Grishcuk, Jakovenko, Karjakin, Mamedyarov. In Kazan he won against Grischuk in the final, because Grischuk had sent Kramnik home and someone else had eliminated Aronian.
This match clearly showed that strong teams supported by strong computers transformed classical Chess matches into a battle not between two players but, rather than that, between computers and teams. That's why a decision was rapidly achieved in rapid chess, when the influence of computer is diminished. FIDE has to do something, because now the Classical Chess World Champion is in fact the rapid chess WC, and IF the decision had occurred in the previous 12 classical games, the champion would be in fact the support teams and their computers...Not so much the individual players...
same crap you keep throwing since the beginning, anything new?
Its a fact that computers affect Classical Chess. It is not my fault. At least I said something that made you say something about my words...Thanks...I think that ist is a matter of time until some modifications will be implemented in order to protect classical chess as a pure individual battle between two human minds, and not a collective assisted competition. It is my opinion.
I disagree with your basic premise, but let's assume you are correct. What should FIDE do about it? Make it illegal to use computers and hire seconds for match preparation?? BTW at least seconds probably already played a role in many earlier matches, including all K-K matches.
And then how to enforce this rule? Imprison the players on uninhabited islands as soon as Gelfand qualified, and Anand thus knew his opponent? Give them a chess board, pen and paper to make notes, but no computer, no electricity, no phone and Internet??
The other option is to play Fischer Random Chess, but should this be the case only for WCh matches? Or just for professional chess (where to draw the line?)? Or for all chess events, including those by amateurs - like me, presumably you and most others participating in these discussions?
So even if there is a problem, any cure is unrealistic and worse than the purported disease.
It will be really difficult to deal with this new situation of modern times...The huge Computer's progress will pose some threat to human individual mind, one way or another...Chess is one of the activities that is being affected. Computers are exhausting the variations almost up the 40th move or so, then chess players will have to memorize those moves up to the 40th move (inside the middle game..) and maybe only think for themselves during the resulting end game...Maybe the better endgame player will be now the player with the best results, considering that both player have the same exceptional memory...
You did not answer his question; see how easy it is to criticize without giving any solution. What do you propose to prevent computer influence? Nothing. Keep blabbing.
One of the solutions was implied in my words...Start the game just were the actual theory finishes, more or less near the the endgame...Because computers will progress, but not totally exhaust the whole game of Chess. There will be always some unexplored territory beyond the "N"th move...So for example organize a tournament or a match like that: A Commission formed by Fide indicated GM's or other Neutral Chess Specialist group present a set of "end-of-theory" positions...The Chess Fans and all the Fide rated players can democratically vote and suggest some of them to be appointed to such an event...Then the competitors will be joined according to any valid system, and at each one game they will have to play from one of the a.m. positions, defined by drawing lots jus before the game starts...Nobody will know previously which position will play...So preparation will not help....Many many other ideas can emerge, IF the Focus is to remove from the game the territory where the machine brute force commands...
So you would turn the WCh match quite literally into a lottery? The chosen positions would probably favor one player over the other: they may be part of his (but not the opponent's) repertoire, they may suit one player better style-wise.
Who would be favored if all games had to start with, say, a Paulsen Sicilian? Who if the King's Gambit was mandatory??
This "problem" is less important that the actual massive computer analysis made before the games, and, for example in a match with 24 games in my proposed system, the styles or characteristics of the chosen positions will vary. Anyway, this system will somewhat favor the player with more universal style (like Spassky) and this will be good for Chess.
A similar idea had already been proposed by Topalov; you'll find an article on that subject on this website. There is also Grischuk who proposed to substitute classical chess by 960chess.
But I doubt those ideas will convince anyway (at least in the near future); I for example don't see myself be forced to play something I did not prepare. Part of chess is to prepare and track your opponent down in your trap. Those who fail to understand that point won't be able to convince people who like to prepare the different stages of the game (here we're mostly talking about the openings but also the middle-game and the endgame which is naturally the result of the first two), no matter how computerized-influenced or not is the preparation.
Also, your idea will fail at some point. Computerizing is a natural path of the human evolution since the industrialization era (the idea is about a mechanism to compute). The positions you want the players to start without knowing in advance will be one day or another all known (left alone the dubious ones). Then the computerizing stuff will start again in another form, just another form, but it will anyway start again.
I found a quote which go along with your words :
'The continual refinement of technique and assimilation of knowledge, particularly in the openings will gradually lead to the extinction of the game - it will be solved, played out. Most of the blame - if that is the word - must fall on the vast store of opening information that is available to every player (and every computer). The amount of study a master has to do to remain up to date in the openings would suffice for a college education. If he neglects his studies his score suffers. I think this corrupts the essential nature of chess, which is a fight between the creative ideas of two individuals. The vast array of predetermined opening variations and theories is, in my view, so much dead weight that should be discarded to save the true values of chess. The task, then, is to find a minimal change in the rules that would retain as much of the present game as possible and yet eliminate its worst feature, the overanalyzed starting position. – Pal Benko'
About that 'minimal change in the rules that would retain as much of the present game as possible and yet eliminate its worst feature, the overanalyzed starting position', I suggest this small change (but which could have some impacts on the theory) :
Inspired by David Bronstein:
'It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?'
This match clearly showed that strong teams supported by strong computers transformed classical Chess matches into a battle not between two players but, rather than that, between computers and teams. That's why a decision was rapidly achieved in rapid chess, when the influence of computer is diminished. FIDE has to do something, because now the Classical Chess World Champion is in fact the rapid chess WC, and IF the decision had occurred in the previous 12 classical games, the champion would be in fact the support teams and their computers...Not so much the individual players...
@redivivo listen you dumb mf. How can you say sht like:
"The match was one of the least memorable title matches ever, but"...........when, when
Who are you to tell us what people will think about this match in the coming days, weeks, months, years, decades? Are you some fortune teller?
You obviously have not forgotten it because you are still commenting on it. So, so just shut up already.
Anand did not win a single tournament in the past 2 years and only very few games against the elite. If he's lucky he can hold world's number 20 to level score in a 12 game match. Is that an accomplishment you'd expect from a world champion?
The position on the rating list hardly matters, qualifiers do. And Gelfands tpr in this cycle is surely 2800+.
At any rate there have been matches with bigger rating differences and similar outcomes. For instance, Kramnik-Leko was tied when Kramnik had some 100 ratingpoints on Leko.
It seems to me that many spectators have either a bad memory or no clue about chess history. Yet it doesn't prevent them of making all kind of statements.
"Kramnik-Leko was tied when Kramnik had some 100 ratingpoints on Leko."
Or maybe 20?!
You replied to my post, but didn't bother answering really. Apparently this questionable history of privileges makes the world championship so "interesting" to you.
Not that I dislike or in any way disrespect Anand for having been one of the strongest players ever - but just like in any other competition, I'd like to see the strongest players competing for what we're supposed to call a world championship.
But I did answer. Based on historical results, it's not strange to see the world champion tie a match with the challenger. It has happened before several times. Even with a bigger rating difference between challenger and champion it has happened.
Well, my question was not whether it had happened before but what you (all) thought personally.
Well I did expect this of the champion. In fact I voted for a decision in the tie breaks as most likely in a pre-match poll. I'd have been far more surprised if Gelfand had lost by a large margin-you can't expect Anand to win like that against any experienced top player. Sure it might have been fun if they had played on in some positions but in general the match was good.
The rapid games could easily have finished with different results, not just because of Gelfand's blundering away the draw in time trouble in the second game, but also the third game where Gelfand missed a simple piece and game winning move, and then after several mistakes in the endgame he also missed several wins there as thechessmind points out:
"51...Kf5? changed the evaluation to +-, 52.c6? changed it back to equal, 52...Ke6? was losing again, and then 61.(R)h7?? allowed Black to draw when the win was not just there but finally straightforward. Gelfand just moved instantly when he didn't need to on that last one, and then when he finally stopped to think next move he found the correct and obvious idea, one move too late"
How easily you can call "simple piece and game winning move". Clearly Svidler commentating live said the Nxe4 move that needed to be done looks like the worst possible move on the board to make, but apparently that was the winning idea justified tactically.
Certainly at least one other very strong player Levon Aronian thinks that the match was very interesting and that the players are no doubt the strongest players of the world http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8197
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