Top 7 commentators you would like to see at the World Chess Championship 2013 in Chennai

State-of-the art transmission of top chess tournaments has created a new niche: Chess commentary. Somewhere from the Anand – Gelfand World Chess Championship 2012 to the London Chess Candidates 2013, chess commentary has developed as an art form.

They’re not giving out chess commentator Grandmaster titles yet, but we wondered what chess fans’ popular pick would be/could be for best chess commentators at the 2013 Anand – Carlsen World Chess Championship in Chennai (not in any specific order):

1. Garry Kasparov:

No two thoughts about this one. Expect carpet bombing, ballistic missiles, commentary room on fire, a zillion re-tweets, journalists in hectic-jot-mode or stunned mode, audience in aww-man mode and all without gunpowder. That’s just when he enters the room. What’s life, or chess, without passion?