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	There is a new post on The Chess Mind.  You can read it at:

http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1150138028.shtml

It begins:

	When we left off after day one, Anand had eked out
	a match win over Bruzon, awaiting the winner of the
	Topalov-Vallejo match for Sunday's final.
	Unsurprisingly, Topalov advanced, winning the first
	two games and drawing the third to clinch the match
	win. (He subsequently lost the meaningless fourth
	game, horribly, in one of the worst games ever by a
	standing world champion. This, in my view, isn't
	really Topalov's fault, so much as it is the
	natural consequence of playing meaningless games
	for the sake of completing a schedule. That said,
	Topalov's loss is nowhere near as horrible as
	Short-Kasparov,...