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IMHO, <10...Bb7 11.Nbd2?!> can be dismissed.>>>

Yes, and it takes them, Natalie and Peter, only 15' per move. So what. And the other obligations were clear from the start.

How ironic to say this game is of no importance to the <chess world>.

I'll bet Umansky, Timmerman, Nickel and Schulman are checking this game out. Indeed, even Kasparov found it of enough importance to play <the world>. Carlsen just played a similar style game against the public. There is a LOT of importance attached to these public vote games. It has to do with spreading the love of chess to a wider audience, and what could be more important to the game of chess?

Pogonina needs to concentrate on the Olympiad, that's obvious. It's the lack of communication that causes some consternation, particularly after the inauspicious start.

Or is it just money that makes a difference for you?

Hey, do we get any $ if we win? We have negotiation power now with wins over some heavy hitters.

Perhaps:
It use to be worse with adjourned games. >>

Just a single letter misunderstanding and i blundered !!

Fate had me playing in love you as my sweet heart.
Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance
You read your line so cleverly and never missed a cue

But then ... the arguments, the harsh words, the angry times, storming out, the other man.

Then came act two, you seemed to change and you acted strange And why I'll never know.

And now, silence, cold empty silence. We don't talk any more. It even makes me miss the arguments and the harsh words. At least then we had some contact with each other.

Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there
With emptiness all around
And if you wont come back to me
Then they can bring the curtain down.

You know the <10...Bb7 11.Nc3 dxc4 12.Nd2 Nd5 13.Nxc4 Nxf4 14.gxf4 Qc7 15.e3>

Its a very forced line. The team could virtually go in auto pilot for a 5 days. In other words, it could avoid a lot of arguments if we went down that road.

Any way this line has my attention for now. Something about the dynamic imbalance in the postion that draws me like a bug to a light. Just hope its not a high voltage zapper.>

From a scientific point of view it is important to know whether a diverse collection of chess players of varying strengths armed with chess computers and in different countries can organize itself to cooperate as an army and whether the resulting army may be stronger than a chess (grand)master with a computer. In a historical context, one might compare this to the slave revolt under Spartacus.

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I am sorry. I am even more prone to typological errors when I post from my phone. What I meant to say is that the Olympiads were even more difficult when games used to be adjourned. Teams of endgame specialists used to analyze all night and explain theory and traps to the players when they woke in the morning.