World Chess Championship: Death on the chessboard – Augsburger Allgemeine

The old order is gone. The chess. The match Magnus Carlsen against Viswanathan Anand is not worth more than a proxy war. A (not very serious) consideration. From Anton Schwankhart
 

In the past, when the world was still divided into East and West and everyone knew where the enemy was, the game of chess had a paramount importance. On 64 fields were held proxy wars, without a drop of blood flowed. Even before the chessboard had been staging area complete armies. Napoleon, Lenin and Che Guevara have rehearsed it. The Beautiful: At the end of the combatants left the battlefield upright and maimed. Only a couple of wooden figures were in the dust.

During the Cold War chess game was the continuation of politics by other means. So, as they have fathers and mothers who lost their sons to senseless wars desired. If those who hold the war to be inevitable, but lead himself. General against General. The billions of other stay at home.

 

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youth Carlsen against Indians Anand

There were, of course, but then again not the statesmen who took the field. Their representatives were called Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. Driven in a life between genius and madness. Duelists of the Cold War between the West against East. Later, when Karpov against Kasparov, there were duels of the old against the new Russia. On board the new won. Putin did not care.

And today? The old order is gone. The chess. A Norwegian youth who looks as if he was still without a license. To defeat Bill Gates, he took twelve seconds. Carlsen plays in Sochi against an Indian who could also be a science editor at ZDF. Two that stand for themselves. Next, a Mongolian goat herder struggling against a Hawaiian surfers. Would not matter. Peace movement, Easter marches, Fall of the Wall, Video Games – Chess has survived everything and yet remained quite himself. Strategic Assassination in tight spaces.

At the end, when the chess Regicide

As in real life also, he was the first to fall victim to the little ones, the peasants. And who thought the fields will eventually die human, to teach the language of the game and his interpreters better.

Still holds his Sicilian opening, which follows the lay up in the night. As a nightmare in the dark figures with black sunglasses in a slaughterhouse in Palermo filleting a poor creature.

All women are naturally afflicted and sacrificed pawn on the boards. At the end, the regicide. All must be able to withstand. No wonder that many grandmasters sometime were closer than the madness of genius.

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