Gelfand-Anand, Game 2 of the World Championship is Drawn

Game 2 of the 2012 World Chess Championship match between champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Boris Gelfand finished in a draw. Like the first game, it was a short draw, ending in just 25 moves. Anand played a sort of Chebanenko/Semi-Slav hybrid and managed to equalize (or achieve something near enough to it) with a small but nice novelty on move 14. Anand's new move gave Gelfand the chance to transposed to a 2011 game between Goganov and Rublevsky. but without allowing him the chance to improve on Goganov's play given the original move order. Gelfand had a token edge for a few moves, but couldn't make anything of it and decided to call it a day.

Sunday will be a rest day, and then games 3 and 4 will take place on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.

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Comments

[perspective]

What the [heck] is going on with the official sites commentry for the WCC ???
1hour documentary on 16th century icons ?????

The fide bureaucrats should be locked up in an asylum, maybe down in the CIA's alien division bunker.
However, the players should too, I mean all the top players.
Dont they realise they hold full power over fide? Fide is nothing without them!
Why dont they get together and restart a PCA type organization.
Is Kasparov the only one amongst the bunch with half a brain outside chess???
Why on earth (Fide president believes in aliens, maybe I should say why in the universe) do the players put up with this kind of nonsense?
Fide cant do anything even half right.
Any FIDE event stinks of "too many bureaucrats in the kitchen" and the "soup is always overcooked" with each one trying desperately to justify their unnecessary existence. No wonder chess is dead.

[DM: An interesting perspective, perspective, but in fact I have no problem with the documentaries. (Which weren't an hour long, but maybe 10 minutes apiece.) I'm not sure where you're from, but here in the U.S. and in other western countries I've visited major sporting events have commercials. These documentaries are essentially commercials of a sort for the place they're playing, which is one of the world's leading art galleries. This was probably part of the deal for arranging the match, which isn't getting funded by you and me and the other spectators out in internet land. Further, while it interrupts the commentary, it doesn't interrupt the game feed - you can find that on the webpage at the link "Latest Broadcast/Analysis with Houdini".

So rather than picking on FIDE (especially for irrelevancies like Ilyumzhinov's odd views about alien visits) they should be complimented. The match and its coverage is based on the free market rather than Elista money, and that's a good thing.]