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This week on Perpetual Chess, we break from format a bit, as 5 time Danish Champion and world-class chess trainer, GM Peter Heine Nielsen, takes us behind the scenes of the night before a decisive game in a World Championship Match. The Match in question, was the 2010 World Championship between GM Viswanathan Anand and GM Veselin Topalov in Sofia, Bulgaria. The game was game 12, the final game of the \u201cclassical portion\u201d of the match, with Peter Heine Nielsen and his fellow \u201c Team Anand\u201d members, preparing Vishy to take the Black pieces against GM Topalov in a tied match with the World Championship and a $1.2 million Euro prize for the winner.\n\nHow is it decided which opening will be played? How is work delegated among the team members? Why did 2 former World Champions and other chess heavyweights also pitch in to help with preparation this night? How did it feel when GM Anand won the game? GM Peter Heine Nielsen answers all of these questions and many more in a very fun and detailed conversation about a landmark game in modern chess history. You might want to play through the game in question before you listen, then sit back and enjoy the interview. More notes, timestamps and details can be found below.\xa0\n\n0:00- We begin by discussing a bit of background about the match, with discussion of other relevant background information, and of how GM Anand and his team felt as they were going into the deciding game of the match.\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\nMentioned:\xa0 Team Anand Members: GM Peter Heine Nielsen, GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov, GM Radoslav Wojtazek, and GM Surya Ganguly, Mind Master by GM Viswanathan Anand, 2008 FIDE Anand-Kramnik World Chess Championship in Bonn, Germany \xa0For more background on this match, you can listen to the following\xa0 Perpetual Chess Interviews with:\n\nFM Michiel Abeln, GM Vishy Anand, GM Ivan Cheparinov, GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov\n\n\n\n\n\n10:00- What factored into GM Anand\u2019s decision to surprise Topalov with the Queen\u2019s Gambit Declined in Game 12?\xa0\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n21:30- Friend and supporter of the podcast, IM K\xe5re Kristensen, writes in to ask about the role that the \u201csupercomputer\u201d played in the match. It was rumored, though not confirmed, that Team Topalov was accessing a turbo charged chess engine to help with preparation.\n\nMentioned:\xa0\n\nRybka Chess Engine\n\n\xa0\n\n24:30-\xa0 None other than World Champion, GM Magnus Carlsen has a free lesson available on Chessable.com, called \u201cThe Magnus Touch.\u201d To check it out, go here:\xa0\n\nhttps://www.chessable.com/the-magnus-touch-free-strategy-lesson/course/40115/\n\n\xa0\n\n25:00- Once the opening for the Game 12 was chosen how was work delegated among the Team Anand members? How did former World Champion Kramnik end up voluntarily helping Team Anand, what about GM Kasparov?\xa0\n\nMentioned: Lasker Variation of Queen\u2019s Gambit Declined, The Catalan, 2006 Kramnik-Topalov World Championship Match, aka Toilet Gate , GM Gata Kamsky, GM Magnus Carlsen, Topalov\u2019s Manager Silvio Danailov, GM Anatoly Karpov, GM Boris Gelfand, \u201cElista Ending\u201d of the Slav, as seen in Game 3 of the 2012 Match\n\n\xa0\n\n40:45- Peter delves into the nature of the help given to Team Anand by then 19 year old GM Magnus Carlsen, and the unsung hero for prepping that night, British GM Luke McShane.\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\nMentioned: GM Elizbar Ubilava, The \u201cproblem\u201d line that Peter mentions and that Luke McShane solved, can be seen in Peter Heine Nielsen\u2019s\xa0 tweet here.\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\n58:30- After all of this stressful prep, what did Peter and the other seconds do once Game 12 actually started?\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\nMentioned: GM Anish Giri\u2019s annotations can be seen here: https://share.chessbase.com/SharedGames/share/?p=ZwNTGxiK5g4jm8Ba5hiyjQg4B+imvQdy6OM469Al0wHO6syTLjEAW3HQ0haiyTYd\n\n\xa0\n\n1:15:30- Thanks so much to GM Peter Heine Nielsen for regaling us with his experiences. You can follow him on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/PHChess\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\nIf you would like to help support Perpetual Chess, you can so here:\n\nhttps://www.perpetualchesspod.com/donate\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices