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George Duke wrote on Fri, Nov 7, 2014 04:29 PM UTC:
This thread is still named after last year's 3-win match -- three wins for Carlsen and the title to Anand's zero wins.  There's
another one starting tomorrow in Russia this time to last year's India. 
There are 12 rounds or games before any tie-break. 

http://en.chessbase.com/post/sometimes-sweet-revenge-matches.  See how many
games are played historically, as many as 32 isn't it?  Everyone knows Draws will win out over
player One and player Two something like Draws-9 #1-2 #2-1, or maybe Draw
10, Players 2, or at best Draws 8 combined Players 4 Wins. That's because in this day and age the openings are so well-rehearsed, not any skill of the players, in fact if anything their inferiority to the "great predecessors," a Kasparov coinage.  Rest assured for each and every 
Draw some pundit or other will call it a Fighting Draw.

 Such prosaic, lackluster banality would not happen with Chess variants, many of which would have far superior challenging rules-sets let alone computer-resistance.

Before Chennai November 2013, Carlsen was just a prodigy not a Champion.  Will Carlsen's reign turn out to be only the one year?  That would be like short-reigned Euwe and Smyslov of great intellectual/artistic credentials.

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