Posted on 12/03/2021 3:08:20 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6
Magnus Carlsen vs Ian Nepomniachtchi, 136 moves--Antonio has the call, condensing their nine-hour game to forty-four minutes.
Absolute great game. Antonio is the best chess analyzer in history.
Alexander Konstantinopolsky
Successful relentlessness: it certainly seems to distinguish him from his contemporaries, although he appears best in short games, too. I’m not familiar enough with the old-timers to know if Carlsen’s—anyone reading this far surely knows—grinding ability is unique.
A mix of Fischer and Karpov. Rip opponents.
I intend to rewatch the endgame.
Thanks.
That’s pretty epic! Thanks for the ping!
Dzindzichashvili would on occasion play incognito in Washington Square Park (as depicted in Searching for Bobby Fischer), hustling the chess rubes for pocket money.
Some decades ago, when I was in college, I was playing in the Virginia Open in Fredericksburg, held back in the day at what was then the Howard Johnson's Hotel. Dzindzi was there, as was Igor Ivanov, the Soviet player (then untitled but later to be awarded the grandmaster title) who had defected to Canada only a year or so earlier. (Dzindzi himself had emigrated from the Soviet Union to Israel back in 1977.)
Anyway, I'd gotten wiped out pretty early on in my Saturday evening game, so I left the playing site with a chess playing buddy of mine to visit some girls he knew who were attending what was then known as Mary Washington College. We ended up not getting back to the hotel until about 2:00 a.m. As we were coming in, we passed by the small (arcade) game room, where we spied Dzindzi and Ivanov together, playing pinball.
Even in my relative youth I found something quite poignant in the scene, these two men having left their own country not all that long ago (and, in Ivanov's case, with the KGB literally trying to chase him down), and one aspect of the freedom they found in the West was to be able to play pinball in the middle of the night, at Howard Johnson's Hotel in the Middle-of-Nowheresville, America. I dunno. The scene had something of a Moscow on the Hudson feel to it, and I've never forgotten it.
It is epic.
I hope this video does not get pulled if white gets supremacy over black, like the other ones have.
I haven’t played chess for years, but this analysis of the game is remarkably engaging. After starting to watch it I had to see it through.
Thanks for posting!
Hmmm . . . you’re right. How ‘bout this: The greatest difference between the number of letters in the surname and in the given name. 16 - 5 = 11 and 14 - 3 = 11. So it’s another draw.
Antonio is the best. And he learned English as an adult.
Actually I’m a bit surprised that 136 moves is the longest.
Was it all in one day? In Fischer’s day they would seal the move at about the 40th move (so a 136 move game would take 3 or 4 days).
As I recall each player got 2.5 hours, was it? to make 40 moves.
Znosko-Borovsky
I suppose, with the advent of chess engines, they can no longer adjourn games.
Zurab Azmayparashvili upset Karpov in 1984, but it wasn’t in the Finals.
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