What a rollercoaster this Candidates Tournament has been for the Chess legend Vladimir Kramnik; and for Aronian too.
Both ran out - before even getting to mid-tournament - of opportunities to challenge Magnus for the title later this at the World Championship Match 2018, London, UK ( 9-Nov-201 / 28-Nov-2018) as they both are at the bottom of the barrel.
Maybe that fact may explain why they starred a fasninating game on Round 10 that so far, at least to me, is a strong candidate for Game of the Year.
The game features all the ingredients for delicious drama over the board: the most boring and harmless Opening stage (Giuoco Pianissimo) that slowly grew up in intensity as it were one of the greatets Beethoven's pieces.
See for yourself and enjoy!
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Moisés Jafet Cornelio-Vargas
About Moisés
Physicists, award-winning technologist, parallel entrepreneur, consultant and proud father born in the Dominican Republic.
Interested in HPC, Deep Learning, Semantic Web, Internet Global High Scalability Apps, InfoSec, eLearning, General Aviation, Formula 1, Classical Music, Jazz, Sailing and Chess.
Founder of pluio.com and hospedio.com.
Author of the Sci-fi upcoming novel Breedpeace and co-author in dozens of publications.
Co-founder of MunicipiosAlDia.com, Jalalio Media Consultants and a number of other start-ups.
Former professor and Key-note speaker in conferences and congresses all across the Americas and Europe.
Proud member of the Microchip No.1 flying towards Interestellar space on board NASA's Stardust Mission, as well as member of Fundación Municipios al Día, Fundación Loyola, Fundación Ciencias de la Documentación and a number of other non-for profit, professional organizations, Open Source projects and Chess communities around the world.
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