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To: BipolarBob
Magnus has won all major chess titles. A truly remarkable achievement.

Magnus was fortunate he was not eliminated early in the tournament. Against the German grandmaster, Vincent Keymer, Magus played the stupid move 16.a3??, which should have lost the game, but Keymer missed the correct continuation: 16... Bxc3 17.Qxc3 Nxe4!, which forks White's knight and bishop after 18.fxe4 Qxe4.

Keymer overlooked the tactic because he didn't think Magnus was capable of such a blunder.

He Blunders AGAIN?? || Magnus Carlsen vs Vincent Keymer || FIDE World Cup (2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1gBD11MJFY

10 posted on 08/24/2023 10:02:08 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

IF he played 100% accuracy all of the time he would be rightly accused of cheating. Nobody on the planet can match the computer. That is why we play the games. To see who makes the least mistakes that we know we are going to make.


16 posted on 08/25/2023 6:03:31 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I haven't slept for ten days because that would be too long.)
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