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Utterly insane. Not only required a bunch of stamina but careful work to not trigger a draw.
by hardwaregeek 5y ago
Utterly insane. Not only required a bunch of stamina but careful work to not trigger a draw.
- karmakaze 5y agoI liked this bit. > Known for always being quite fit, the Norwegian GM admitted this was a tiring affair: "Sure, but I think that's the way it is. As I said, it shouldn't be easy in a world championship match. You have to try for every chance no matter how small it is. Part of it was by design at some point that I thought I should make the game as long as possible so that we would both be as tired as possible when the critical moment came. That turned out to be a good strategy." Turned the game into a sport. Which ended up paying off better than the counter-strategy of playing quick moves to apply extra time pressure. From the description it seemed like it could easily have gone either way, so clearly a win and yet by very narrow margins where replaying, if possible to go back in time, would likely yield different results.