How do you know this?

Did Gata build up any fatigue after his 15 move win in a previous round that would explain his loss to someone rated 70 points or so below him?

You also asserted in another thread that he was late. He was late for the opening ceremony but do you have any proof that he was late for a match that he was expected to play in?

Okay, I'll bite.

Please post a link to 3 recent interviews in which he had that underlying message. Or is this another assertion that you can't back up?

Compare this game to Nakamura's continued play after move 52 in Caruana vs Nakamura, 2012

Supposedly Nakamura was showing his "fighting qualities" by continuing that game to move 107. This despite Caruana's multiple draw offers after move 80.

No, he did not have the whole game ahead of him, 13 moves were played at that point.

In the position at move 13, what plan should he have tried? Be specific.

Are you saying that you know more than the 6th rated person in the world about the position and how there was a path to win against the 15th rated person?

Besides, admit it, you like Naka too much to view or hear the interviews objectively. Show me at least 10 of your posts about Naka where you don't support him. Not interested in doing that? Guess you don't want to be my researcher either.

You won't take my word for it that the main message Naka has for the world is: I don't care. Well that's fine with me. I have no concern what you believe about the existance or validity of Naka interviews I have seen over the past few years, because Naka's message has been very clear.

I am not asking you to be my researcher. I am asking you to back up your outlandish claims.

I understand that you have an opinion on what you claim you have heard. But an opinion based on lies is of no value, neither is the person who spouts that opinion.

If you can produce the 5 interviews that say that Naka doesn't care, then your opinion has at least a basis to be considered. Of course, even then, if there are 10 other interviews that show he does care, then that has to be considered.

What do you think Naka's message to the world is?
And if you don' t think he has one . . . . It's probably because he doesn't care.

The Olympiad is in my opinion the greatest chess event on the calendar. All these chess players coming together from all over the world. My one regret in chess is I never got the chance to play in one.

You lot are squabbling and bickering on every page over every game.

Relax and enjoy...Go and pick a game from two players you have never heard off and play through it. (BTW. Thank chessgames for the quick posts, some of us actually do play through the games, as opposed to those who sit and wait for a post on a game and then tries to rip the posters throat out.).

PLease...If you unearth a wee gem then share it.

Now this bit...

" Carlsen, the world champ drew [with] a nobody who is some 400 points beneath him."

The chess player who drew with Carlsen is called Tomi Nyback. A Finnish lad and going by his bio is not at all a bad player.

Tomi Nyback

The 16 move draw?

Why do you think he has a message to the world?
Is everyone supposed to have a message?
I think only people who are feel overly self-important and serial killers feel that they have to have a message to the world.

But here is a message from an interview:
“To study all aspects of the game, to keep playing despite the results, to try and improve and never to get discouraged . to keep on trying”.

It is hard to say he doesn't care if he hangs out in the lobby of the hotel and plays game after game of blitz against anyone at all...after winning the US Championship..

<Having an opinion on this site takes balls, tearing one down takes none.>

Absolutely! What I love about this is the excitement of the upset, or the near upset as a much lower rated player is playing the game of his life and just maybe, maybe having that big upset and something he/she will remember forever.

<Both players are fans of the Norwegian version of 'Bargain Hunt' don't blame them, blame Norwegian TV for it's viewing schedules.>

Oh, but for the availability of a DVR we could have had a 32 move draw and some people would stop whining!

I would have thought the Finnish people would have been way ahead on that technology...or is it that the risk is that you may hear some spoilers on the way back to the hotel room?

So are you saying that Naka played "good" in the first 12 moves and then just went for the draw for no reason? What do you think about Giri's comment about how Naka played the opening?

I don't care either way about the big guns and their past stats or grades.

It's the the fact some of these players, esepecially the young players, have been taken out of a country that is possibly dangerous and just for a few weeks and are safe and actually playing in the same competition as their heroes.

What a wonderful thrill it must be.

Chess is doing that. It makes me proud to know the game.

(...and pure dead jealous that I'm not there.)

If per chance you have Nak's ear, tell him I have the entire set of 'Bargain Hunt'. (Series 1 through to 5). I will lend him them.

So now he can stop horsing around and get out there and sac things.

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There is today's question.

What famous chess player sent another famous chess player a telegram during a match saying:

<My one regret in chess is I never got the chance to play in one.> My one regret in football is not lacing up my boots and doing a Maradona by dragging England to World Cup glory as my wife, Beyonce looked on in lustful admiration!

After game 11 (The Poison Pawn Game) in the '72 match Rueben Fine sent a telegram to Fischer.

Even class C and D celebs are PETA and Rain Forest activists, which means much more than the wearing of obnoxious Red Bull's hideous looking shirt.