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George Duke wrote on Mon, Nov 21, 2016 07:58 PM UTC:

Simpleminded Chess Game 8 for world championship 2016-2018 is under way: Live. There have been 7 Draws for their worst case in terms of decisive outcomes in 60 World Matches over 180 years, interestingly about one every three years. Draws 7, Carlsen 0, Karjakin 0.

History -- that is, in this respect the worst Match for the World Title since these started in year 1834, when Louis de la Bourdannais played Alexander McDonnell with a score of 45 wins to 28 wins with 13 Draws. That one was a 100-game match and it got to where McDonnell could not catch up, so the last games were not played. Likewise in 1972 Fischer led 7 to 3 with 11 Draws, and the final 3 games of their 24-game match then were unnecessary. It is become a 12-game modern peewee version of the classic title matches and defenses with a billion intermittent viewers, who would be better served with something else.

Here are time controls and #1 applies today: Time.

Live, Karjakin just found good move 24 withdrawing the Knight to f6. Carlsen has under 14' from 25 to 40 time refresh. Then Karjakin took over seven minutes Move 26 and is at <9'. Then both have less than nine minutes and there will be lots of fast moves 27 on. Karjakin's sharpness seems to be improving, whereas Carlsen has been on this plateau before.

Take a look, this is exciting game one feels may not end in Draw, with both at three minutes the first control. Real time, CARLSEN BLUNDERED MOVE 35. ...then Karjakin 37 ...Q-d3 is just as bad -- back to 50-50 sidebar after Karjakin had about 70-30 advantage to win couple of turns. Great 0-1!


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