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Over the past week or so, its been a real pleasure to watch and sometimes stream the Magnus Carlsen Invitational. During lockdown, weve become accustomed to almost constant top class internet chess, and after a hiatus it was great to have it back.

Of course there are idiosyncrasies to internet chess which are different from normal over-the-board practice. Under a system in which fully half of the players in the preliminary all-play-all progressed to the knockout phase, quick draws made sense and the fact that they were banned as such didnt deter the players from halving out when they wanted. Indeed, with a small twist in move order (you can play Nxd4 and then d5 or d5 and then Nxd4) there were no fewer than eight games, five of them involving Hikaru Nakamura, which ended in a repetition on move 14.

I also doubt whether in an over-the-board tournament the world champion and one of his greatest rivals would, even with nothing to play for, have indulged in the Double Bong Cloud variation.

It aint chessbut, of course, the Bong Cloud is actually a very macho gesture. Will you try to take advantage of my posturing and fire first in the gunfight?

Streamer extraordinaire Hikaru Nakamura

Chess is a highly emotional game, and it requires huge emotional strength to keep yourself together, especially in the final moments when the result is irrevocably determined. Sometimes things go wrong and rather than the fat lady singing truly, she hits the wrong notes: and while it is over it aint in the way it ought to have been.

There have been at least a couple of instances of this during the Carlsen Invitational (Im writing on Friday morning, so there may have been more instances in the final days).

One was the horrible blunder Jorden Van Foreest made at the end of his game with Levon Aronian. Yes, it was awful, but Aronian had really worked to make if difficult for Van Foresst. Luckily for the Dutchman, itwas the last game of the day, so he had time to recover before re-entering battle on the final day,when he immediately beat Daniil Dubov and finished with four draws.

Another instance was the draw that Ian Nepomniachtchi acceded to against Nakamura in a position which turned out to be winning. Watching with an engine, this may have looked like an egregious error, but it absolutely wasnt obvious to me at the time that White can separate his king and pawn with Kc8 and pawn c5 and then win, and while Id have hoped to have seen this in a classical game, in rapid play I suspect Id have made the same mistake as Nepo.

After watching the games I sometimes riff on them later, and the finish of the first day of the semi-final between Carlsen and Nepo led to a thought process which saw Carlsen getting the minor piece ending he wanted but then getting his knight trapped after he took on g3.

Ian Nepomniachtchi during the 2020 Candidates Tournament | Photo: Lennart Ootes

It was a ridiculous scenario but led to something a little interesting when I started wondering whether with White having the wrong rooks pawn the ending of White having king, bishop andpawns on e4 andh4 versus Black having king and pawns on e5, f4, g4 and h5 would be winning.

I believe that, as long as the bishop cant get to e8 and the white king cant reach d5, then it is a draw.But a little more riffing led to an attempted stalemate defence which doesnt work and so cant be used as the finish of a probably rather slight study.

There have been examples throughout chess history of people agreeing draws or indeed resigning when they were winning/drawing. I covered a couple of these more than four years ago at the end of 2016, and I am repeating them. The first is Van Popiel v Marco, a very famous example in which Black resigned since he failed to see a winning tactic.The second is the winner of the best blunder competition in Murray Chandlers famous spoof Not the BCM in 1984.

To finish, a very famous example in which Garry Kasparov no less resigned in a drawn position against IBMsmonster Deep Blue.

Later,there was a row after Kasparov alleged that the move 37.Be4! in particular was too sophisticated for machines at the time and must have required human intervention. At the end, he not-unreasonably trusted the monster, but it had succumbed to its own horizon and in fact Black can draw.

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Beth Harmon is making her next move.

A production company led by a Disney heir is planning to adapt The Queens Gambit into a stage musical. The fictional story is about an orphan girl thats Harmon who becomes a pill-popping prodigy in the overwhelmingly male world of chess.

Level Forward, a company whose founders include Abigail Disney, a grandniece of Walt Disney, said on Monday that it has won the rights to adapt Walter Teviss 1983 novel, which has become newly noteworthy thanks to the enormous success of last years streaming series adaptation on Netflix.

Level Forward is not yet announcing a creative team or any other details of the project.

The company has a decidedly progressive bent (it describes itself as an ecosystem of storytellers, business people and social change organizers), and is a relatively recent but active player in the theater industry, co-producing four Broadway shows in 2019: What the Constitution Means to Me, Slave Play, Jagged Little Pill and a revival of Oklahoma!

The game of chess, although seemingly unlikely fodder for song-and-dance, has inspired at least one other musical: In the 1980s, the lyricist Tim Rice collaborated with Benny Andersson and Bjrn Ulvaeus of Abba to write Chess, a fictional account of a tournament between an American and a Soviet grandmaster. The show had a well-received score that remains an object of affection and fascination for some, but, despite repeated efforts at revisions, it has not found success onstage; it ran for two months on Broadway in 1988.

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