"It was the first decisive game in the classical rounds of a world championship in over five years."
I wonder if there’s some way other than time constraints to encourage higher variance moves.
I wonder if there’s some way other than time constraints to encourage higher variance moves.
It would have been 4 years if not for COVID.
And what it basically means is that there were decisive games 4 years ago, and then 2 years later (the World Chess Championship is played every 2 years), in the 2018 match between Caruana and Magnus there were no decisive games.
So essentially there was 1 match with all draws during the standard chess part of the tournament. And that match was between Fabi who is regarded as one of the players with some of the greatest prep and play in standard chess, and Magnus, who is really one of the greatest players, if not the greatest, of all time.