Why a World Chess Champion Anish Giri is Inevitable

 Anish Giri is in some ways the most perfect chess player on earth today because he understands the very nature of the chess struggle. He is practical and ready to accept reality, not some distorted contorted discombobulated fairy tale of Chess. He has proved better at this than the current World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen.

Super Grandmaster Anish Giri's recent result bears testament to his supreme ability to maximize the reality on the board and translate that into winnable positions which he invested in winning but not ideologically committed to winning. This proclivity does lead him open to the cliched jibes of drawmaster but Anish is as far from a drawmaster as you can ever get. His starting point is that the starting condition of Chess is essentially drawn with the best play and all other factors being equal and he strives with every part of his being to move the needle of balance his way but he has respect for the game and the process to accept the inevitable. Does he get it wrong? Yes, Anish is human.

It speaks volumes of the man that he wrote about the future after Magnus Carlsen, in his book titled "After Magnus".

Who the hell does that? He writes a book about his opponents that critiques them fairly and gives odds as to how likely they are succeed in ascending to the chess throne. It is a genius like Anish Giri who does that. It is that willingness to assess the reality of situations dispassionately and act accordingly that sets Anish apart from the others. 

I have some firsthand experience with Anish having been chatting privately with him for a few months prior to his real massive increase in successful elite chess results. I was introducing him to a new training system I had devised which I believed would create a winning edge for any chess player at faster time controls but especially in the upper echelons of the game where every minute difference in a skill makes a bigger difference in the outcome. 

He looked at my chess app, installed it on his phone, and started testing it for me. I to this day don't know why he did, I mean who the hell am I to tell this precociously talented chess prince, heir apparent to King Magnus, that I know how to improve him in any kind of way. He did engage with me and I will have no idea what impact that had on his performance but it speaks to the nature of the man that he is able to put the normal order of these things aside to listen dispassionately to a person and act accordingly. I can only ask that the God of Chess grant this young man his just deserts for his supreme ability to translate truth dispassionately and engage objectivity with the ultimate chess crown. It will be a good day for Chess when that happens and I believe it will. Thank you, Anish.