World Championship Gambit!

In the 90s Anand rose in the chess horizon as ‘the’ contender for the world champion crown by winning a number of super tournaments ahead of Kasparov, Karpov, Ivanchuk, Gelfand (The last 2 always supported by the heavily biased chess media as the best 2 options after the 2 Ks for the world champion crown & Anand projected as a distant 3rd!) & Kamsky.

Hence, whatever that was possible was thrown at Anand to prevent him from becoming something that most of the heavily biased chess fraternity didn't want him to be - the World Champion! He has always been understated in the chess media & this trend was started way back in the 90s & with the wholesome support of the so called 'rulers of the chess world'! Anand had always been portrayed as a pretender to the throne who had very less chance of succeeding in it while all the above said Super Heroes of the media were live & kicking! And, these created super heroes were always eulogised @ the expense of an Anand who never cared to complain, which he continues to do till now! Karpov & Kasparov, both of whom, though they were not in talking terms in that long period of time, were mentally united to ward off the one & only real & present danger to their K Kingdom - Viswanathan Anand!

The 13^th world chess champion was rendered IRRELEVENT 13 years ago is a fact that never sank into the chess world or never made to sink in by the inimitable gimmicks & techniques employed by him, from time to time! From 2000, when he lost to Kramnik in a world championship match under PCA which he created to Promote Himself & nobody else, the relevance of Kasparov has gone into a virtual tailspin from where he successfully maintained himself on the world stage & continuously grabbed the attention of the chess world by the sheer gimmicks & tricks which he continuously employed, despite being far from his hey days & the pinnacle of his thinking ability!

From 2000 his mental abilities declined substantially & he fell into something that is NOT fit to a mind champion is properly explained in his political entry & the eventual failure in public life in Russia as happened in his chess life, since 2000!  His Latvian Try clearly shows his unstable & uncertain state of mind where nothing is certain, which was NOT the state when he ruled the chess world from the Karpov-Kasparov days to 2000! What he tries to do when he descends on the Chennai sky for a couple of days, during the world championship 2013 is a try to browbeat & intimidate Anand by his ‘SUPPOSED’ presence. BUT, what he never knew is that Anand is not the same person whom he intimidated by his lowly tricks & gimmicks in the 1995 world championship match! He even foolishly forgets that Anand is the Reigning World Champion who has won the World Champion Crown in every possible format which the Self Proclaimed & Self Propelled So Called ‘Great’ Kasparov was never able to do!

By Trumpeted Words Kramnik in 2008 & Topalov in 2010 tried to unseat Anand, with the support of the chess media, which ALWAYS presented Anand as somebody who would be vanquished by these ‘Voice Producers’ of great capacity!

But, Anand proved beyond any doubt what he IS & positioned himself among the Greatest Of The Men Who Played The Game Of Chess, EVER!

Easy come, easy go! Since 2010, after Anand successfully defended his title against a very vociferous Topalov in Sofia, Carlsen’s rise – In World Chess Media, as well! - has been phenomenal! All over the chess media he had been heavily highlighted as the future world champion. Trumpets were blown in the name of Carlsen, world over, in the chess media. The western chess media started to dance according to the Carlsen tunes set by the persons who wanted to dethrone Anand & put someone white on his Throne! But, every one knew that dethroning Anand was never going to be easy as he had FIRMELY established his hegemony, which once established – Thrashing the So Called Match Expert & Blue Eyed Boy of FIDE Kramnik ( 2008) & the Noisy Topalov ( 2010) – was going to last a century!

The Chess Coterie knew pretty well that Anand was going to last on the throne for quite long, as, by this time, Anand had learned more than enough to know how to maintain himself on the Chess Everest. His group of seconds (Peter Heine Nielsen, Rustam Kazhimdzhanov, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, SS Ganguly& others) had clearly become the envy of the chess world! There was never a chance for anybody to upstage him. Hence, from 2010, the Coterie did whatever they can do to unseat Anand.

World chess media started to incessantly publish whatever the Chess Coterie dished out as the main & happening things, in the chess world. All these started to come out as the responses to the planted queries, opinion, comments, discussion points etc! Then, it started to HIGHLIGHT the age factor of Anand –The Age Propaganda started with Topalov Howling @ Sofia before the Sofia World Chess Championship, though!-  & the diminishing motivational levels! As in chess, (Altered to suit the western followers of the Indian Game Chaturanga!), in chess media also ‘The White’ automatically has the first mover advantage!

To highlight the ‘potential’ powers of the prince Carlsen, the Coterie & chess media HIGHLIGHTED that the ‘so called’ King Kasparov ‘himself’ trained him that ‘SOME’ fear be grown in the mind of the World Champion Par Excellence – Viswanathan Anand! Nobody told that Kasparov Expired in 2000 with the Kasparov-Kramnik Match & the spectre remained till 2005 ‘ONLY’ due to the marketing skills (The below par techniques he uses to stay himself in the lime light, by hook or by crook!) of the 13^th world champion! What the Coterie never knew is that the much out dated (As out dated & dethroned as ‘King’ Kasparov himself has become!) & sub standard ‘Staring, Clock Banging, Imposing Tactics’ Kasparov ‘successfully’ used against a much less experienced Anand in the 1990s were never going to be anything but silly & stupid jokes for the well experienced & wonderfully matured Reigning World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand!

When the 2012 Anand-Gelfand World Championship Match all of a sudden got transplanted to Russia, despite Chennai getting the assurances from an ever feeble & unstable FIDE of it being the venue for the championship, the Coterie that worked for the venue shift smiled in the hope that Anand would be dethroned in Moscow as sudden changes in the match plan could be a scare for the defending champion! The well experienced & matured Anand got through the fire wall & thrashed the hopes of the Coterie once again!

Then, out of the blue, came the declaration from Kazhimdzhanov that he would be taking a BREAK from Anand’s team! Then, Carlsen re entered the Candidates cycle (After a long break from the cycle, as somebody thinks Carlsen was advised by ‘someone special’ to stay away from the world championship cycle as ‘if’ at all he becomes the world champion @ that age he could have become the youngest, pushing ‘King’ Kasparov into the second spot!) - with ‘Nothing’ changed in the cycle! - with Peter Heine Nielsen as his training partner! Carlsen surged ahead in the Candidates 2013 in the beginning but faltered at the fag end of the event that saw Kramnik emerging as the challenger! BUT, Kramnik TOO slipped in the last round as he lost surprisingly in the last round giving Carlsen the opportunity to eventually emerge the winner on a better tie break!

Here, we see THE GAMBIT!

                                                                           

As Kramnik as the challenger stood no chance against Anand, as he had been wholesomely demolished by Anand in Bonn & been left irreparably shattered mentally, as well, it becomes utterly sensible to allow Carlsen to have a shade of a chance to challenge Anand & dethrone him, with Peter Heine Nielsen being deliberately kept away from the Anand team, for the first time, to add pressure on Anand & his team, stating the IMPARTIALITY VIRTUE! Helping or supporting some one for a tournament is one thing & being a part of a team for a quite a long time, and that too the World Champion’s Team, is another! Moving Peter Heine Nielsen out of Anand’s team, for whatever reasons stated, is DEFINITELY part of another game plan, the gambit!

The Invincibility of Carlsen CREATED & MARKETED by the Coterie (Which crumbled like anything in the last stages of the Candidates 2013!), the highlighted 95 point rating difference between the world champion & the challenger, the widely circulated tricky notion that Anand has won all his world titles away from home etc ARE nothing but the integral parts of the illusory – ‘Maya’ in India! - jig saw created by the Coterie to upstage Anand! And, it is interesting & at the same time sad that the Coterie has found buyers of their notions in India, where, Maya was introduced & explained for the one & only time in Human History!

Some one expects that playing behind the curtains & then reaping the benefits without anybody noticing it is something EASY than fighting face to face, knowing fully well that the opponent ONLY can win in a direct fight, as he is no one other than the Chess Legend from India, Viswanathan Anand! Some one, one in the Coterie, thinks that after dethroning Anand, if, at all, he is dethroned, he can easily out play Carlsen in a MATCH! Gambit........A World Class One......Fishing in the muddled waters! But, better, at the least, Indians stay out of the World Of Maya, created by those who ardently wish to sit on the throne of the game Indians invented thousands of years ago, which is presently decorated by none other than the Indian Legend, Viswanathan Anand!