16-11-2013, 07:45 PM
Andrew McHarg Wrote:Anand was clearly heart broken with today's loss. Think it's curtains now.
I tend to agree. On paper he would still have some kind of a chance but only six games to do it, sadly, and Carlsen isn’t allowing him much chance to mix it. Anand's confidence must be shattered at not holding today’s position.
I couldn’t understand Anand’s 43 h4-h5 plan. I think W draws fairly easily by keeping the R on the 6th rank. You wouldn’t expect Black to be able to queen his f-pawn though! Carlsen took his chance brilliantly and out-calculated him.
Think this was it, before White's 43 h4
[pos]8/1r3pk1/3R2pp/1p6/2p5/2P4P/1P4PK/8 w - - 4 3[/pos]