World Chess Championship part 2

Today (Thursday) is a rest day. Kramnik won game 2 in a more exciting game, and games 3-4 were drawn. So Kramnik is up 3.0-1.0. If this were a 20 game match or so like past matches, Topalov would have plenty of time to catch up. But now, Topalov finds himself down 2 points with 8 games left to go against someone who's traditionally very difficult to beat. Topalov has time, but he needs to be aggressive and try to turn this match around quickly, or what time he has may run out.

Now, about the allegations of cheating. As I understand it, Topalov has been accused of having a chip implanted into his brain and Kramnik was accused of going to the bathroom 50+ times a game during the match. I don't take the chip implant allegation serious at all. He's losing pretty badly right now and obviously making some mistakes. Not only that, I don't believe anyone has the kind of technology to have a computer chip interact directly with the brain. As far as Kramnik is concerned, it seems like a reasonable request to have players somewhat limited to the number of times they go to the bathroom, and have an arbiter accompany them to it.

Anyways.. you can go to the Susan Polgar Chess Blog if you want updates on the World Championship match, no reason for me to analyze anything when you have grandmasters doing the dirty work. We should see some exciting games in the next week from both participants.