2013 FIDE Candidates Tournament @LONDON

I find it kind of strange that Non-Asians are being given the opportunity to decide amongst themselves as to who would be given the honour to "assassinate" the Asian World Champion Anand in the title decider later this year.
The whole scenario reminds me of field hockey a few decades ago where initially it was played on grass...Pakistan and India (...and to a lesser extent Malaysia) were world leaders,....that was until the Europeans argued(...some say hoodwinked Asians) that AstroTurf is the way of the future. Since AstroTurf, Asians hardly made a dent in world hockey.

Anyway, Am not sure exactly what was the selection criteria but FIDE should have made the event more "inclusive" by having reps from Asia, Americas and Africa.

On our side, we "followed" 2 rounds of play.
1st Round, we "played" Carlsen v. Aronian. Both wanted to be Magnus...managed to follow the game until the blitz started. We were all amazed at the blitz that took place and was laughing at the "love sign or heart" that ended the game...as if both were toying with each other and making fun of the chess world at the same time.

2nd Round, the cHEss pIRATE got his eyes glued to the iPad following 2 games...though I'm not sure whether he was following the games or just playing with the features of the coverage...though he did complain why it's taking them so long to make a move and had observed him making some moves on the board to understand what the players were contemplating. Fell asleep after a long day...woke up for a while coz he was complaining he was hungry and saw his eyes were still glued to the iPad following the 2 decisive games concurrently, scary! How can a "liveless" screen capture his attention span, I wonder!?

....in the morning he played 3games on white and won all of them...and I've not seen the moves before from him, Perrrghhh!
Time to set-up 2 boards for the 3rd Round tonight.