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...