Anand Blunders in WCC game 8 Topalov wins and equalises score 4:4

Veselin Topalov has won the eighth game of the World Championship match in Sofia. He defeated Viswanathan Anand in an opposite-coloured bishop ending and thus leveled the score to 4-4.
Anand blundered on move 54 and resigned just two moves later.Topalov finally got rewarded for his fighting spirit. He kept on trying to break through the Slav ending, and he kept on pressing in this bishop ending game..

At the press conference Anand wasnt sure if he could hold the ending even if he hadnt blundered, and was critical about his play much earlier in the game. However, analysis shows the draw was actually in reach

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• Topalov

[blackdogwoofwoof]

those chairs look comfy

[mielord21]

yeah they are obligated to record their moves... they even signed it....

[iamdeafzed6]

@warblerab

Writing down the moves and signing the score sheets makes it less likely that the players will dispute the game score later on. Part of it is for legal reasons. Part of it is probably tradition, too. Keep in mind that video cameras and computers are fairly recent inventions, yet chess has been around for hundreds of years.

[nopackdrill]

i wanted Topalov - my fellow white European - to win .. in the same way ppl living in the Indian subcontinent /India etc wd no doubt find affinity w/ Vishy (who i greatly admire, a worthy champ, a gentleman) and support him

those programmed w/ cultural marxist pc protocols wd ofc reflexively describe me as racist but surely i ask, what's good for the goose is good enough for the gander, no?

[ozoshah]

gotta love topalong. (im joking)

[warblerab]

@dxnification But are these annotations really written down the middle of the game? I would think these annotations would be written down afterwards, when they analyze the game latter on.

[dxnification]

@warblerab Its not just the moves. They're annotations. They are also recording the thought process behind the moves so that chess can keep developing with time. These annotations have been responsible for almost every major innovation in chess thinking. Nimzo's annotations resulted in the hyper-modern era, Anands annotations may result in development of the Catalan system.

[warblerab]

why do they need to write their moves down in this kind of match? Aren't there all kinds of people writing down the moves? Aren't the moves recorded in computers?

[OSCARA320]

@MilitaryMan006 yes they do, so then they can learn from their mistakes, if they didnt need it why would professionals like them write them down? better to keep your full concentration on the match dont you think? even if they're able to calculate from 15 to 20 moves that doesnt mean they dont make mistakes. Bobby fischer even wrote full comments about some games, and he's maybe the greatest player.

[OSCARA320]

@belguitou nooo, of course not, everything is silent, although the cameras and flashes are a bt distractig..

[blackm0re]

Atanasov is such a bad translator (both his English and especially his Russian suck).

[belguitou]

Was the music live ?