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Today, Chess first and Physics at the end: certainly no fables as Carlsen enabled the tweeters and commentators to come out with more than one!! Even the incorrigibly optimistic engine fell dead after White king captured the c6 pawn on move no.104; letting go even that 1 mm rise; but Magnus prefered to continue: "... he signed up for suffering " he said for a question on the long haul ending starting with 31...Bg4.....he could have spared the commentators and the audience world over, from suffering boredom atleast now if not on move 77.   For once semantics of "buffalo" sounded more "interesting"...! The "Berlin wall" tormented the chess players more than the Germans... Having said that, we witnessed a magnificent display of defensive skills by Vishy!   This game will be better remembered for the beautiful possibilities sidestepped by both the players, where they could have gone wrong.....Yes, you heard me right, there ...

" Our blindness changes not a whit the course of inner realities. Of us it is as true as it is of the seeing that the most beautiful world is always entered through the imagination."                                                                                                                    - Helen Keller The thanksgiving day arrived early...! Carlsen is the culprit....he blundered and blinded Vishy, breached the trust that he had...and this can mean two things: that Carlsen managed to upset the psyche of Anand to make him play below par from now on...or set him ablaze and feel the heat.... Assuming Vishy did not miss ...Ne5 and assuming all the remaining games end in draw, crowni...

"Whoever wishes to, May sit in meditation With eyes closed To know if the world be true or false. I, meanwhile, Shall sit with hungry eyes, To see the world While the light lasts."                                                                                                 - Rabindranath Tagore If what you know and how much you know is the measure of becoming good, as you grow and walk into what we call as life; then what you discard and ignore from what you know is the measure of greatness! Wisdom....wise....a word that is used loosely is nothing but a revealment of our nothingness - by shedding what we 'knew'....the 'conditions' - the void that you get to when you start peeling the layers of conditioning....the known. ...

....not feeling happy with his play so far We will get to the game played, but before that I let the following story to guide us into an interim inference   Aesop was a storyteller whose fables are still the best the world has ever known. He was a man of great wisdom. One day Aesop was sitting by the side of the road when someone who was passing by asked him, " Could you tell me, sir, how far is the village and how long it will take me to get there ?" Aesop didn't say anything and he simply got up and started walking with the man. The man was a little frightened. He told Aesop not to trouble himself because all he wanted to know was the distance and the time it would take him, and then he would be on his way. Aesop still didn't say anything but continued walking with the man. After fifteen minutes or so, Aesop stopped and said, " It will take you two hours ." The man replied, " What a crazy person you are!  You could have tol...

" Living of course, is rather the opposite of expressing ...we no longer know how to see the real faces of those around us...we no longer look at our contemporaries, eager only for those points of reference in them that determine our behaviour....What matters are not picturesque qualities, episodes, shades of color, or emotional effects. What counts is not poetry. What counts is truth. And I call truth anything that continues ."  -  Albert Camus No.... the title is not denoting violence, rather it is an allusion for the commencement of music... a duet instead of solo!  Great day to see the other player...smile too and I rush to preempt your thought that I love only this smile...! A picture speak million words! A much needed victory for Vishy and it will do him a world of good!  This should restore him from self doubts. What this first win for Vishy or more precisely the first loss for Carlsen as a world champion mean is, that Anand has woken up from th...

Boa in readiness to pounce! Let me start the day with some beating around the bush, before getting into business; as the intensity of the game and how one man could defy the perception of millions, on occasions, need equally intense deliberations. I love Grandmaster Jonathan Rowson's tweet after the day's play which for me, essentially describes Magnus Carlsen. Jonathan Rowson ( @Jonathan_Rowson ) Feel deep admiration for Magnus's play. He makes something from nothing with a superior understanding of complex simplification   #CarlsenAnand I would be drawing conclusions on the moves played subsequently and shall relate it to what the players had to say and how their countenance went with it.  But before that I wish to take you through some physics especially the thoughts of Richard Feynman, arguably the greatest theoretical physicist of twentieth century!  This is a conversation between Leonard Mlodinow and Richard Feynman, narrated by Mlodi...