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RE: Announcement: STEEM Chess Tournament Saturday 04 January 20 GMT (finished!)

in #steemchess5 years ago

Ok, I will try to play with increment during next 2 weeks.
However, I think top players like Carlsen/Nakamura play with increment in real life because it takes longer to move pieces with real hand instead of mouse.
Look what happened on this video: Alireza has advantage over Carlsen but loses because shaking hands:


But rest of Your respond sounds professional, so I will stick to it. I wish You nice day.

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This game was a display of Carlsen superior endgame skills. His opponent does not manage to win with 3 pawns more. And we saw the best two players on earth here! Without increment the whole video would have been only a few seconds. If Carlson had taken the pawns it would have been a draw, so it was a technical win for him as it was possible for him to win with a lot of help from his opponent. Alireza wanted to win and lost. He could run away with his king and let the pawns stay undefended then it would have been a draw if Carlson had taken the pawns, but he did not and tricked him in the end.

I have improved very well by analyzing every lost game after the game. If I play just for fun my rating is dropping like a stone :) Good luck!

They played online last week: 3+0

I've just opened the same video 3 minutes ago and now I see You sent it to me :)