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Jon Speelman: Anybody can have an off day

Jon Speelman: Anybody can have an off day

from ChessBase News 10/22/2023

Oct 23, 2023
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Jon Speelman writes; Magnus Carlsen’s disastrous loss to Alisher Suleymenov in Qatar has gone round the world, partly because it was an excellent game but mainly because it was so unusual: Carlsen’s first defeat by such a relatively “weak” opponent since the Norwegian Championship of 2006! Unusual but not really that shocking.

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