Tie break Chess Game 2 Anand-Gelfand played Kasparov Style

Efim Geller – Chess before computer prep!

Legendary World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov has been following chess keenly even after his retirement from the sport. In an interesting comment on the recently-concluded Anand-Gelfand World Chess Championship 2012, Kasparov referred to his own game played in 1979 against Efim Geller in the Russian National Chess Championship. You can read about Gary Kasparov’s comments on the recently-concluded World Chess Match at Crestbook. But, before you surf away, here are both the games: the second Anand-Gelfand tiebreak and the Geller-Kasparov chess game from 1979. You can replay the games in our flash chess game player. (Note by blog admin: Post-mortem of chess games played is a done thing in the chess world and not a criticism of the players themselves.)

Efim Geller-Gary Kasparov, 1979, 1/2-1/2

Viswanathan Anand-Boris Gelfand,World Chess Match Tiebreak Game 2, 1-0

Isn’t chess amazing… like bridging time and universes, like navigating through dimensions… and returning to oneself over and over again, to the same moments mirroring back to us, on the chess board and in life?