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2005 M-Tel Masters.Jonathan Rogers wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 8:54 pmDoes he appear to have lost a standard play game against JP? (And in the last 30 years: I think that he lost to JP in the late 1980s as well).
Mind you, it's the way he lost today as much as the result itself which is striking.
Lichess round 1Jonathan Rogers wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 8:54 pmDoes he appear to have lost a standard play game against JP? (And in the last 30 years: I think that he lost to JP in the late 1980s as well).
Mind you, it's the way he lost today as much as the result itself which is striking.
Trying too hard to win a drawish or drawn position perhaps. To judge from the clock times recorded by lichess, it's a rapidplay tournament. A slow one by some standards, it looks like 40 minutes with 10 second increments.Jonathan Rogers wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 8:29 pmShocking one move blunder in round four, a bit like Kramnik's against Deep Fritz.
The website is a fashionably uninformative mess, but yes.Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 9:05 pm. A slow one by some standards, it looks like 40 minutes with 10 second increments.
That may be correct. It would be disappointing if the tournament was registered with incorrect details, but who cares nowadays?Mick Norris wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 11:11 pm40 minutes plus 5 second increment according to Chess Results
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