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Eugenio Torre vs Anatoly Karpov
SWIFT Blitz (1987) (blitz), Brussels BEL, Apr-26
Indian Game: Anti-Nimzo-Indian (E10)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Oct-31-21
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  LRLeighton: Admittedly this was a blitz game, but it is surprising that Karpov missed a win with 43...Qc1+ 44 Kg2, Qg1+ 45 Kf3, Rf8+ skewering the king. If 46 Bf5, Rxf5+! 47 Kg4 (not 47 Qxf5, Nd4+ forking K&Q), Qxf2! (47...Rxf2 allows a perpetual check) and after 48 Qxf5 although black has given back the rook, the extra knight will decide the ending. 48...Qxf5 49 Kxf5, Nc3.
Oct-31-21
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  MissScarlett: This must have been a 5 minute game with no increment, so there may have been literally no time to think.

<But chess clocks didn't change much until the 1970s, when the first digital chess clock was invented by a student at Cornell University. And that changed everything once again.

Not only were digital clocks more accurate than analog ones; they could also be programmed, adding scope for creativity and new ways to time games. Most famous was the clock patented by Bobby Fischer in 1988, which added a small amount of bonus time to each player's clock for every move. This meant that while time remained a big factor, a player in a clearly winning position wouldn't lose just because they didn't have time to physically make the needed moves. Fischer's bonus time has since become a common setting at chess events around the world, as well as in the world of online chess. It is often called increment today.>

https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

Anyone know more about this first digital chess clock from the 1970s? When was the first such commercial clock available? Was Fischer's clock really the first to enable the use of increments? When were digitial clocks first used in major events? In other words.....discuss!

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