Szlia
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I am very bad at chess, but a mix of childhood memories and youTube, lead me the last few months to watch a lot of chess lessons, commented matches and chess live streams. Anyway... the reigning chess world champion, norvegian Magnus Carlsen is currently defending his crown against american Fabiano Caruana. They play 12 games in classical time control over a couple weeks and if they end with the same score they play some rapid games (on paper, Carlsen is heavily the favorite if it comes to that). At this point 6 games have been played. 4 have been boring draws (which is kinda the norm when two Super Grand Masters play in this type of format) but the 1st game was a pretty exiting game of cat and mouse and the 6th game started like it would be another fast and boring draw, but some dubious play by Carlsen as white gave a slight advantage to Caruana and suddenly it became a fight for survival for the World Champion (losing as white would be pretty a serious blow to his chances to keep his crown). It still ended in a draw, but the end game will probably be in many chess puzzle manuals as the computer at some point found a line for black to win... in 30ish moves, but at the start of these winning lines were two very counter-intuitive moves, making them almost impossible for a human to find, especially in the context of a World Championship after 6 hours of play.
Anyway... game 7 started as I write this! Any chess fans/players around here?
PS: The live stream of the match is a pay per view thing, but there are several twitch channels that do analysis as they play. for one.
Anyway... game 7 started as I write this! Any chess fans/players around here?
PS: The live stream of the match is a pay per view thing, but there are several twitch channels that do analysis as they play. for one.
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