A thriller in New York.

What an exciting night watching Carlsen versus Karjakin in the FIDE World Chess Championship. Even the fourth game during the night became a drama. There was no easy match during the Championship. But at his 26'th birthday Carlsen managed to defend his title.
 
Karjakin has made himself a great reputation in Norway as a gentleman of chess. It also seems like Karjakin and Carlsen respect one another.

I also have to mention Sergej Karjakins manager Kyrillos, a man who has become very popular in Norway. He has even promised he will spend his summer vacation in Norway.

Russia can be proud of Karjakin and Kyrillos.

Due to the time difference Norwegians has spent a great deal of the night watching chess. It's safe to say that Norwegian productivity will be lower than usual tomorrow. Partly due to tired workforce, but I also predict that there will be lots of chess discussions next to the coffee machines.

Congratulations to Magnus Carlsen, a great ambassador of chess.

FIDE World Chess Championship

As I have been talking about before, chess is a fantastic TV sport. I can't wait for the games starting tonight. I've got everything lined up so I can spend most of the evening, and a great deal of the night in front of the TV watching Carlsen and Karjakin playing.
May the best (Norwegian) win.

Chess and cumulative knowledge.

The game of chess is developing through cumulative knowledge. Just like science is a collective is a collective enterprise. Its models are cumulative, interconnected and coherent.

The discussion about this topic at the program covering the chess game brings my thoughts to one of my favorite books by Edward O. Wilson. The book is called Consillience. I will pick that book out of my bookshelf and write about it in my blog in a short while.

Chess.

I'm no chess player but I love watching the best players of the world Sergey Karjakin and Magnus Carlsen playing in New York.
The Norwegian broadcasting have wonderful people in their studio. Most often two or three chess players and one or two novices. As Norwegian broadcasting is famous for their slow tv this is a wonderful example of slow tv.
I must admit I'm a bit embarrassed thinking about the amount of time I have spent watching chess. But I can guarantee you it's fantastic entertainment. It's great, slow TV.