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The 2018 match

For different reasons, united mostly by a sense of disappointment, the 2018 world championship match between GM Carlsen and GM Caruana isn’t well-remembered.

However, I enjoyed it and followed all the way through. The participants can be found in the video below discussing some of their games. Have they hoisted themselves by their own petard here? Better to say that honesty is the best policy, whether it be complimentary or uncomplimentary isn’t it?. Better still, that analysis is so often ad hoc or ad lib and based on calculation and recall in all its many guises, with a few extras thrown in!

If I had been participating and asked why all games were drawn in the classical format, I would have sung not spoken (see below) :-).

MJM

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