Other Items of Interest: NBC x 2 (NoBody Castles, NBC Sports)
Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 9:39PM
Dennis Monokroussos in 2021 World Chess Championship, Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik

A week ago I mentioned the no-castling match between Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik. Where we left off at the halfway point, Anand led 1.5-.5; since then, Anand comfortably drew games three ("comfortable" understates it; he was winning and then some) and four to win it, 2.5-1.5.

The aforementioned match hasn't received much attention, but this will give chess a nice boost in the U.S. (at least it couldn't hurt, unless we get a replay of Elista 2006): NBC Sports will cover the World Championship in November and December.

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