Vishy Anand: evaluation

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…Always a danger. He seemed to know — he lured me into a totally harmless position and then waited for me to get impatient. Literally, someone who has good psychological insight into you. That was annoying. Then I got incredibly lucky against Polugaevsky. Then a couple of draws against Gelfand and Ivanchuk, amongst others. In the last round, I beat Beliavsky, still in a natural way. It’s not like I’d gone that far from my roots, but it happened. Kasparov drew with Khalifman, Karpov drew with Gelfand, and I realized I’m in first place. That was a very nice surprise. I remember faxing a friend, just, “I won, I won, I won.” I wrote it three times and faxed it to him. I don’t know if everyone in the audience will know what a fax machine is, but anyway — Some of us remember.…

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