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#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness

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Is There Anything With a Queen Checkmate Nothing With the Queen?

I don't think there's any way to stop it even if he loses his queens mm-hmm yeah it's it's a force checkmate fascinating so like that you can't purely calculate but you can have some intuition also. I could always just check him with my rook if I wanted to to make a draw so that also gives me some margin where if I calculate after I play the move and I calculate it doesn't work out I can still make the draw are you uh I mean for fun do you do the sacrifices of this sort when it's not the serious competitive online events or over the board? "I wish there were more opportunities but top level chess has become harder and harder

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