George Duke wrote on Wed, Oct 29, 2008 11:50 PM UTC:
Kramnik's win of game 10 makes it Anand 6 to Kramnik 4. Kramnik would have
to do so again twice, win the two remaining to invoke tie-breaks. There
are four wins and six Draws. Crazy Queen 64 squares always inspires. She
is logical from her very inception over 500 years ago. The logic is that
Knight, Bishop and Rook go to mutually exclusive squares. That fact should
be emphasized more than it is in instruction to youngsters learning Chess.
Yin and Yang, thesis and antithesis are no more compelling. Centaur(BN) or
Champion(RN) would ruin the pattern. Mediaeval minds, more intuitive than
ours, understood this thoroughly and immediately, and so implemented
Queen(RB), capturing in one piece, of the three, the two (R,B) having
unfulfilled continuations. Hence the name Mad and Crazy Queen, OrthoChess
64 squares, as a practical matter, still the one appearing widely perceived for near-perfection or state of the art.