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.