Anand wins Chess Oscar!
Viswanathan Anand has won his fifth Oscar for the 2007 year after scoring a double crown of the World Champion and the world’s #1-rated player. The personable India Grandmaster will face rival Vladimir Kramnik in the qualifying match for the world title. Gata Kamsky will face Veselin Topalov in the other qualifier.
Any combination will prove to be an exciting matchup and a Kramnik-Topalov will cause the chess world to relive memories of “Toiletgate.” Kramnik-Kamsky will have the least appeal (to the chess world and sponsors) given the throwback to the old Soviet “K vs. K” matches.
Most of the top players were nominated and in the coming years, we will no doubt see some new faces.
i cannot think of a better person or chess player who deserves this award for 2007 bravo anand !!!
lets see if carlsen is in the running for next year. if he keeps this pace up he will be knocking on the 2800 door real soon!!
well said!!
i think that its the other way around it will be harder on anand. but only time will tell
lol. i also want anand to win but i think it is beacuse i feel that kramnik should have no rite to a rematch seeing how he ducked kasparov for so many years i want anand to wipe the floor with him and topalov. gata is the underdog, if he can pull some upsets that would be great for the chess world as well