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Those are cold looks....If taking your opponent by surprise is pretty much part of the preparation ahead of any World chess title-clash, then champion Viswanathan Anand clearly delivered a psychological blow to the challenger Magnus Carlsen on Thursday.
Among the several unwritten rules the players follow before any match-play, secrecy around the identity of their ‘seconds’ is high on priority. Anand deviated from the usual practice and unhesitatingly announced his ‘seconds’ in the first joint press conference with the young Norwegian.
Hours before it was known that Carlsen would start the match on Saturday with white pieces, Anand made his first move.
“K. Sasikiran, Sandipan (Chanda), (Radoslav) Wojtaszek and (Peter) Leko” were the names Anand announced at the outset and continued, “so these are my first seconds. I worked as I always did, which is, a couple of months of training and I think I am well prepared. But we’ll see how it goes. But I feel ready to play and I am in a good mood.”