Anand drew the 11th game against Kramnik in their 12 game match to win with 6.5-4.5 score. All the games were exciting and had fighting chess. I congratulate the organizers for making the tournament smooth and for a wonderful internet broadcast. I think this is the first time an important chess match broadcast on the internet, worked without any hiccups right from the start. I thank Susan Polgar, Dennis Monokroussos and chessdom for their live commentary during the games.
Congratulations to Anand who is also now number one in the live ratings list.
It is time to get a new mobile phone since my contract has expired. I am considering AT&T Fuze. I thought about IPhone. But if in case I wanted to develop something my own for the phone I will not be able to do without buying a mac. AT&T Fuze used windows mobile. But that is not the reason I am considering it. Windows mobile development also needs Visual Studio, the standard edition of which costs $300. I am hoping to get Android installed on the phone and then develop using Android.
Many forums and blogs have mentioned Nov 4th as the release date for Fuze. I need to go to an AT&T store and see how the phone feels if they have some models available.
Out of 12 games 8 are over and Anand leads by a big margin of 3 points. Kramnik needs to win 3 games in the remaining 4 to go to tie break. The chances are very slim for that.
I found two more websites with nice live commentary of the games. Susan Polgar’s blog and Chess Mind blog by Dennis Monokroussos. Both of them have very good commentary of the game. But they do not carry board position for every move. So you also might want to follow the game in the official site simultaneously to look at the position. While chessdom website which I mentioned earlier is good I found it to be slow some times. The board also some times got messed up and I do not know why it tries to connect to the server every time you click the button for a move. Also the advertisements on the game analysis page is not something you want to see in an office environment.
Chess world championship 2008 has started. Anand the defending champion and Kramnik are playing. Three games are over now. The first two games were drawn. Anand drew first blood by winning with black today. You can watch the world championship live at the official site. This is not exactly live and has 30 minutes delay.
Getting access to the games itself was a big problem in the last championship tournament at Mexico. Here they have done a good job of anticipating the traffic and I did not find any problem in getting to one of the ten servers through which the official site is relaying the games. I find chessdom website with live commentary to be better for watching the games with lesser delay.