Anand was having a physical critical day going from low to high, while Boris was as high as one can be…They were both emotionally low. Anand is as low as one can go intellectually; while Boris was in a low stage, but will be having a critical day tomorrow, transferring into the high range. Because of this I predict Anand will win tomorrow to even the match.
Armchair Warrior
You can try tossing chicken bones or astrology, too, to predict what will happen tomorrow.
I remember one of my unusual chess experiences was something called the “Biokinetics Open” in the early 1970s. It was a rated tournament run by, I think, one of Leroy Dubeck’s grad students. At any rate it was at Temple University and was dissertation research for a grad student there. The attractions of this USCF rated event were that it was free and that free snacks were provided too. I asked them to send me their research results, and I think someone said “of course”.
You played most of the games normally, but one or two games of the five rounds both opponents were wired up with skin conductivity sensors, heartbeat detectors, etc. I don’t know if they charted our biorhythms as a part of the research. They kept track of the moves and did something about correlating the events in the game with readings from their instruments.
Actually I don’t know what they found because they refused to send me any research results and ignored me totally after the event was over and my data collected. Maybe my game and measurements contradicted their research hypothesis?
Although it sounds like an interesting tournament Arti, biorhythms could not have been the reason you were wired. Biorhythms are biological cycles that begin when you are born and continue throughout life. There are three cycles, physical; emotional; and intellectual. People ignorant of biorhythms believe, “Biorhythms is a pseudoscientific belief that claims our daily lives are significantly affected by rhythmic cycles overlooked by scientists who study biological rhythms.” (From skepdic.com/biorhyth.html)
Biorhythms were brought to my attention by the father of a woman with whom I shared life for many years. He was a Senior VP of a bank and a believer in biorhythms. He gave me a book to read in which the author had charted prominant people in different walks of life, one of whom was Bobby Fischer. Jack knew that would pique my interest, and he was right. I learned that biorhythms are taken seriously in Japan. A critical day is when one is changing from either low to high, or the reverse. If an airplane pilot has a double or rare triple critical day he cannot fly that day. The same goes for bus drivers. After instituting the policy accidents dropped dramatically. That is called empirical proof for you nattering nabobs of negativity.
Over the course of several years I charted my biorhythms everyday. At the end of the month I would plot what I had written with my chart and was astounded by what I found.The most important thing I have learned over the course of the last three decades is just how pronounced is the difference between being in a high, as opposed to low, physical phase. I have less energy and need more rest while in a low phase. The only way to explain a physical critical day is that I feel out of phase. It is like having your eyes slightly out of focus, which happens frequently on those daze…
Although there are those who catagorize biorhythms with tossing chicken bones or astrology without doing any research whatsoever, I will not argue with them because, like Mark Twain said, “Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
Armchair Warrior
My Tarow card advisor says that Nakamura will defeat Gelfand in the next WC. So I guess Anand will lose.
I’m about done discussing chess with this A player who styles himself the Armchair Warrior.
I’m told the foes list works well.
I’ll find out. 
Why did Gelfand have White twice in a row?
Because otherwise it is unfair that one player ALWAYS has white after the rest day.
Nowadays, half-way thru the match they switch who has white first (in each two-day stretch of games between rest days.)
I made biorhythm predictions privately before the match in which I stated the World Champ, Vishy Anand would begin the match seeming to have little energy due to the fact that his physical biorhythm was in the low phase. He went into his low physical phase when the match began and will now be going into his high phase. This could be the reason for the comments made by former world champ Kasparov about Anand having “lost motivation.” Sergey Shipov criticizes Anand at one point for playing like an old man in his commentary on danamackenzie.com/blog). He was having a physical critical day today, the 20th, when he lost. Unfortunately for the World Champ he went into the low intellectual phase on the 12th and will not come out of it until the 29th.
The challenger, Boris Gelfand, on the other hand, went into a high physical phase on the 15th and will not go into his low phase until the 26th, which is a critical day. It is also the 11th game of the match, meaning Boris will be heading downward physically near the end of the match, the opposite of Anand. Boris will also have an emotional critical day on the day of the 12th game, May 28, which bodes ill for the challenger. That will be mitigated by the fact that he will be going into his high intellectual phase beginning tomorrow, the 21st, which is a critical day.
What this means is that I expect Viswanathan Anand to play much better as the match continues. Boris Gelfand will have much trouble because of having a critical day on each day of the last two rounds. It is a positive for him that he will be in the high phase intellectually.
I will, therefore, go out on a limb and predict that the World Champion will come back in a thrilling finish to retain his Championship, ending the talk of the death of chess because of the relatively short draws at the beginning of the match. After all, the match between the champion at the time, Kasparov, and the challenger, Anand, segan with eight draws, did it not?
Armchair Warrior
I just read the wikipedia article on biorhythms and it said it was pseudo-science. I am inclined to agree. And the people on the internet are rarely wrong. So both the internet and I agree, biorhythms = pseudoscience.
Some people prefer the occult and pseudo-science to reality. The idea of biorhythms were all the rage for a short time in the 1970’s. Then it disappeared when no replicable results could be produced. BTW, you need to have the exact birth time in order to do “true” biorhythms. Another silly “new age” idea that has been on the trash heap for decades. What next, voodoo?
Stop giving people ideas! 
Been there. Done that. Korchnoi-Karpov, 1978
That was just yogurt and Ananda Marga.
Mr Magar writes, “BTW, you need to have the exact birth time in order to do “true” biorhythms.”
I would like to respectfully ask the gentleman where he obtained that information, which is incorrect. I have never read anything about needing the exact time to plot a biorhythm. All one needs is the birth date. Biorhythms begin at the moment of birth, so, in my case, since I was born at seven am, my 24 hour critical period would begin at that time.
I believe Mr Magar has confused biorhythms with astrology, which is supposed to require the exact time of birth so the precise location of the planets can be ascertained. It may be better to consult Nancy Reagan though, providing she does not just say no.
Armchair Warrior
Crazier than a bowl of fruit loops.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. And the poster DID predict Anand coming back with a vengeance in game 8. At least he posited a rationale (however unconventional) for his views. Pass the fruit loops!
P.s. Nocab-- how does The Belmont look to you?
Although I do appreciate the fact that you acknowledge the fact that I went out on a limb and predicted Anand’s win Mr Williams Hyphen Lawrence, when it comes to the Belmont, in the immortal words of Bob Dylan, in the greatest Rock & Roll song of all time, Like A Rolling Stone, “You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you.” You will have to go out and purchase your own box of fruit loops… 
Armchair Warrior