I agree that Magnus has played the Alekhine, but very very rarely, mostly in banter blitz and rarely in rapid. I seriously doubt he would employ it against Nepo unless he's leading by 3 pts.
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I predict 9-10 draws and 3 Magnus wins.
Depending on when the 3rd Magnus win happens, the remaining games won't need to be played.Last edited by Jeffrey Xu; Friday, 19 November, 2021, 01:57 PM.Comment
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I won't try to predict the amount of wins, but will be shocking if Karjakin is not on Ian's team of seconds...Comment
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3-1 ten draws for MagnusComment
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The big day is tomorrow! - and then hopefully it goes on until Christmas!Comment
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Games are at 7.30 am Toronto time. I think.Comment
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Its game one of the match, Magnus has black, and before move 30 Magnus has a position he wants. Amazing!
However no progress was made, so draw.Last edited by Hans Jung; Friday, 26 November, 2021, 11:34 AM.Comment
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Good waste of the bishop pair!
Ha!Comment
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FIDE scrambled to replace Nepo's flag before start of play...
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/fid...-start-of-play
...LOL!Comment
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Game Two Interesting opening and exchange sacrifice by Magnus. I'll leave the analysis for someone better than I. (its very complicated) End result draw.Comment
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I've been listening to the commentary by Judit Polgar and Anish Giri that is provided by Chess24
( https://chess24.com/worldchesschampionship/watch/ )
and I must say that they provide very interesting insight and quite a bit of side commentary on chess in general terms.
I sort of wish that Peter Svidler was doing commentary (with or without Jan Gustafsson - he also adds a lot of interesting banter)...Mike Pence: the Lord of the fly.Comment
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Magnus had this to say about the commentary ...
I just don't even remotely care.Comment
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Rd 3 Another interesting middlegame peters out to a draw.Comment
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