Check out this interview/article. It's one of the greatest chess interviews I read. It seems like Anand was in contact with a lot of great chess players during the match with Topalov and it seems everybody was supporting Anand and not Topalov. The reason for this might be that Anand is just a very nice guy and also for Kasparov, Carlsen or Kramnik it might be important who is world champion because they might want to become world champion in the future too. If Topalov would be world champion it might be much more difficult because Dainalov (his manager) is well known for making stuff very complicated (toilet gate, etc.). So, we chess fans can be glad too that Anand is was the winner of the match!
Read the great article here: Anand got help from Carlsen, Kasparov, Kramnik!


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