Justice has been done!
23 Jul '17 19:482 editsIn IX round of Dundee 150th Anniversary
Andrew Greet endured 135 moves as black against Eduardas Rosentalis and made draw.
Here's the game--->
I always hate when weaker player loses their game in Zeitnot. Of course that stronger player had all the right in the world to play until last move and to hope for their opponents' blunder.
Nothing directly unsporty in that.
Still, I feel some bitterness when it happens, when GM, tired and washed-out, perhaps depressed and bored - proves to outsmart weaker opponent just by pushing woods and waiting their mistakes. David Bronstein would certainly have agreed with me.
No beauty in such play, it is wrestling.
I have been watching this game on my netbook and somehow I was happy this chap Greet managed not to blunder despite time trouble.
I don't know how Rosentalis looks like, I imagined all the time Yermolinskiy, with his dark glasses, dyed hair and liver spots, as semi-retired KGB spy on holiday.
No beauty in such "technique" which counts on opponents' blunders in equal or lost positions.
Here justice has however been done.
,
Andrew Greet endured 135 moves as black against Eduardas Rosentalis and made draw.
Here's the game--->
I always hate when weaker player loses their game in Zeitnot. Of course that stronger player had all the right in the world to play until last move and to hope for their opponents' blunder.
Nothing directly unsporty in that.
Still, I feel some bitterness when it happens, when GM, tired and washed-out, perhaps depressed and bored - proves to outsmart weaker opponent just by pushing woods and waiting their mistakes. David Bronstein would certainly have agreed with me.
No beauty in such play, it is wrestling.
I have been watching this game on my netbook and somehow I was happy this chap Greet managed not to blunder despite time trouble.
I don't know how Rosentalis looks like, I imagined all the time Yermolinskiy, with his dark glasses, dyed hair and liver spots, as semi-retired KGB spy on holiday.
No beauty in such "technique" which counts on opponents' blunders in equal or lost positions.
Here justice has however been done.
,
